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The Unstarving Musician


The Unstarving Musician’s Podcast features interviews with indie music artists an industry pros who share their experience and expertise on songwriting, recording, touring, getting gigs, marketing, and much more. It’s all intended to help indie artists to more of what they love–make music.

Aug 23, 2019

The artist known as My Name is Chapel releases a new single called Taxi Cab today. Chapel is also in the midst of producing and scoring his first film. We discuss this, his recent full-length album, the origins of his name, and more.

Episode Highlights

We start by discussing our shared connection of previous guest Chris Avetta and go on to discuss:

  • The process of producing his album Empire State
  • How Amy Schumer inspired him
  • The story behind his new single
  • His love of vinyl
  • The inspiration for his artist name
  • His horror movie project
  • Why music theory was never really his ‘thing’

Key Points

  • Inspiration can come from the most random places – just listen to it.
  • Embrace your multi-passionate nature.

Quotable

“I’ve always been a singer, but I’ve also been a class clown, too… obviously I’m serious when I’m singing a serious song, but afterwards I like to crack a joke.”
My Name is Chapel

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