Today we’d like to introduce you to Christopher Worth.
Hi Christopher, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I started singing pretty late in life – sophomore year in college in my first theater show, West Side Story. From there the songwriting bug took hold and my life took a left turn for the past 20 years.
After a couple post-college bands and touring the four corners of the US, I settled in to street performing to hone my craft and survive. This linked me with an incredible bucket drummer and our duo then went on to tour all over Europe on the street.
This initial experience really grounded me in my artistry. Over the past two decades I’ve released over 8 albums for various projects and collaborated with musicians all over the world. My recent record – “Levity” – came out this fall and represents the sum of my singing, writing, and experience to date.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Absolutely not.
Survival is always essential, but to truly delve into artistry you need to go all in to show the universe you mean it. This means accepting living on very little perhaps for very long and establishing a deep sense of trust in yourself and in the magic of life, which is what called you in the first place. .
In this commitment to art first, one reaches a crossroads that is very difficult. On the one hand, you need to refine and establish a brand – this is good as it forces you to distill your art into something easily accessible by the outside world. At the same time, creation centers on continually shedding your old skin. These are diametrically opposed and finding a way to bridge the gap is yet another creative challenge.
Making music is absolutely wonderful. Interfacing it into the modern landscape as a business is very difficult.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Rhududu?
As a response to some of the difficulties in surviving as a professional musician, I started to host community events about a decade ago. These include a curated songwriter night in the winter months, a secret retreat for artists of all mediums, and a variety of collaborative film projects including a live TV show we created early in the pandemic.
The Rhududu is a word we used as kids to describe a place in the woods we would sneak out to and spin stories of our dreams of life. It has come to mean “the fortress you build in your imagination as a child.”
Instead of complaining, I/we started building the parts of life we saw missing, primarily in relation to community and the support of artists. This has evolved into a special association of some of our core artists to support this mission.
Risk taking is a topic that people have widely differing views on – we’d love to hear your thoughts.
Fortune favors the bold.
There is no way to take no risk, but you must calculate how much you can absorb. This takes the deep wisdom you learn over time – you hone your intuition.
I’d say I’m on the high high end of risk taking. I have bet it all many times before – sometimes lost, sometimes won, and most times just ended up ok.
Nothing worth doing, nothing that pushes consciousness or society forward can involve no risk. You just have to determine how important it is.
For me it always comes down to “can I live in a world where this project we are working on doesn’t exist?” Then taking the risk is somehow about preserving the most important aspects life.
Contact Info:
- Website: http://www.christopherworth.com
- Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/worthmusic
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/weareworth
- Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/@worthmusic
