Imperial Valley Artist Nate Shy is Something However » Holtville Tribune

BRAWLEY — Nate Aguirre, additionally recognized by his stage title Nate Shy, is a younger Mexican-American songwriter and recording artist who has been pursuing his ardour and releasing his personal music for six years now, an curiosity he’s had since his days at Brawley Union Excessive College.

“It began with buddies in highschool, simply messing round at a buddy’s home recording music. It wasn’t till after I graduated that I began taking it critically,” Shy informed the Chronicle throughout a current interview.

Born and raised in Brawley, Shy’s music has a darker, extra melancholy taste that’s primarily based round hip-hop and R&B with many influences outdoors the style; it’s a method he’s grown into lately, he stated. Shy has been a music lover his complete life and his particular and evolving sound has constructed him a homegrown following.

However, he stated of his stylistic decisions, “I need to actually good this sound earlier than I transfer on to a brand new one.” 

With the love and assist of fogeys who inspired him to pursue a profession as a performer, Shy feels he has the inspiration for fulfillment. “They’re my largest supporters.” 

His father additionally seems to have planted the seed of what Shy has grown into at this time, in response to the musician. “My dad raised me on rap,” he stated of his childhood musical influences.

Shy stated he pulls inspiration from favourite artists just like the late XXXTentacion and Juice WRLD, however says, “I hearken to a whole lot of punk, post-punk, rap, hip-hop and R&B.” 

Music, Shy shared, “It’s kind of like my remedy.

“I make a whole lot of love songs, and I write about my experiences. Typically good, typically not good, however lots of people relate to it,” he stated.

Not A Shy Man Anymore

With some success underneath his belt, Shy has gained extra confidence as an artist and has been meticulously planning out his subsequent steps, with a packed calendar for 2024. Just lately, Shy held a launch get together in Brawley at The Dream Heart, the place he carried out new materials, with visitor spots by a number of different native artists as nicely. “It was a very good turnout,” he stated of the Sept. 1 occasion.

Shy held the discharge get together to construct hype for his new mission, which was launched per week in a while Sept. 8. “Grief EP,” a brand new mission with 5 tracks, was dropped, which featured collaborations from San Diego artists Amon and John Givez. Shy is aware of {that a} key to progress is these collabs, the place totally different artists’ circles can begin to overlap and develop collectively.

Amon is a rising San Diego artist, and extra lately went viral on TikTok for his music. The opposite collaborator on the EP, John Givez, pulls some extra credibility to the observe as he was signed to Interscope Information in 2016, an organization that has signed large names comparable to Tupac Shakur and Woman Gaga.

Shy used to report music in his bed room, however now travels to Los Angeles to report his tracks, the place he works together with his audio engineer Joseph “KRE8” Hurtado. In 2021, Shy leveled up and made his solution to his first studio recording session. “The primary time being in a studio in LA, it was loopy,” he stated.

Hurtado additionally hails from the Imperial Valley and was lately acknowledged with a Grammy nomination for some work he did in 2020. He has labored with some large business names like H.E.R., Kehlani and Ciara.

Shy talked concerning the origins of his working relationship with KRE8, and stated, “After I graduated, he hit me as much as see what I used to be doing and we began a partnership we’ve been in ever since.

“He helps with mixing, vocals, and he produces, too,” Shy informed of his engineer’s abilities and contribution to Shy’s tracks.

“He’s an enormous mentor for me,” Shy stated.

Shy stays busy, touring to San Diego and Los Angeles for varied initiatives, and he stated he performs gigs each couple months. He’s lately been taking pictures a whole lot of content material like pictures and movies to accompany his unreleased music. True to his phrases, later in the identical day as his interview with the Chronicle, he was scheduled for an additional video shoot.

Shy stated he’s met with potential venues in new places in San Diego and Los Angeles recently and he desires to journey farther, and he hopes to go on tour someday.

In November, he did a “Stash-And-Seize” occasion in the neighborhood. This was a enjoyable and free solution to join together with his house and provides again to followers within the Imperial Valley and fire up some buzz together with his title. Shy positioned a vinyl and a cassette of his newest mission, “Grief EP,” at Discordia Information in El Centro, and marketed it to social media platforms. It was a first-come, first-serve occasion the place residents and followers have been inspired to grab up the free music.

“It was actually cool, I dropped them off, and whoever discovered them received to maintain them,” he stated.

Inside per week, each of his giveaways have been scooped up by comfortable followers in the neighborhood.

Shy’s Mission Collabs and Inspirations

Shy is pleasant with different artists to come back out of the Imperial Valley like Imperial’s Eddie Zuko and El Centro’s Jay Roxxx. Coming from a small neighborhood, it’s inspirational for Shy to see that it’s potential to rise as much as bigger fame with onerous work and time. 

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Shy has been actively doing gigs for about three years now, and “Considered one of my first gigs was opening for Jay Roxxx at Spot 805. It was one among my largest venues to this point,” Shy reminisced.

“Eddie Zuko is an enormous inspiration to me,” he continued.

Zuko has been rising in fame during the last a number of years within the hip-hop and rap world, particularly in Latino circles together with his bilingual fashion of songwriting. Zuko and Shy met in 2022 and Shy stated, “Since then, we’ve talked and know one another now. I’ve gotten to inform him thanks for getting me into this.”

Shy has been utilizing his momentum over the previous couple of years within the music world to push for publicity. He was capable of land some radio airplay on Mexicali/Imperial Valley station Energy 98 Radio (98.3FM) in November 2022 for a music he recorded with Oceanside artist Obed Padilla on a mission referred to as “Nocturnal.” The music performed for a two-week interval at varied time slots.

His skilled relationships have grown with different artists and he continues to carry out and open for bigger title artists like Padilla. Shy performed in Santa Ana on the membership La Santa on Dec. 9, the place he stated he was grateful for the chance to carry out and open for his buddy Padilla. It’s simply a part of the fixed hustle.

“I’m all the time engaged on stuff. Proper now, it’s like getting all of the content material prepared. However I’m all the time writing,” he stated.

Shy is busy making ready the brand new tracks that he’ll be releasing this yr, with a number of extra initiatives within the works. His subsequent music will probably be popping out in February. He was mum on the specifics however was capable of share a number of hints. “It’s a collaboration with one other producer from the Valley, in El Centro. I labored with ‘Kronus,’ who lately went viral on TikTok for some beats he produced, so I’m actually excited for that,” he stated.

Shy’s profession purpose in 2024 will come from what he has already proven: onerous work, motivation, inspiration and the power to dream large.

“If I can do it, then anybody can do it,” he stated. “Chase your goals and don’t hearken to what individuals must say, as a result of on the finish of the day, individuals all the time can have one thing to say.”