![]() “It’s through an app that I just open and respond to messages directly. Where’d that idea come from and how’s it going? Recently you posted a cell phone number to reach you at on Instagram. I couldn’t be happier with all the art he’s done.” So, I hopped on a Zoom call with him and we eventually were able to collaborate. “My manager had been following this Japanese artist, Kentaro Okawara, and told me I had to check out his paintings and I loved it. ![]() ![]() What previous albums and releases do you currently have out? There was a long time where I was really just planning on pretending for the rest of my life, but everything has worked out super well, way better than it does for some people.” My whole family is still really in it, but I’ve been really surprised by how cool they are with my leaving. The toxicity and exclusivity of the church was very weird and hard to grow out of and it was uncomfortable to leave, so I wish that was less of an issue, but I had an amazing support system growing up. My family has always been amazing, I couldn’t have been raised in a better way. I think a lot of people that have that sort of religious falling out would agree that there’s a period where you think, ‘There are no redeeming qualities of this,’ but more recently I’ve started to see it more for what it is. Even today there will still be moments where I think, ‘Wow, I really used to do that, or I really used to think like that?’ I’ve also come to accept it a little more. “It was one of those things where I didn’t realize how much of my childhood was kind of weird until I was out of it. You were brought up in the LDS Church, but later left. I definitely wasn’t good at singing right off the bat, but I still just loved to mess around and play the piano and sing.” This is the apex of popularity.’ So, I started teaching myself to play piano. They brought a piano out to the center of the stage and got him to wear some sort of top hat and sunglasses and I was like, ‘Man, I really want to be like that someday. He was playing the piano and singing “Apologize” by One Republic for the sixth-grade talent show and I was super jealous. “My older brother was one of those really naturally talented musicians. Her album Pleasure is one of my favorites, for sure.” She’s one of those artists that my mom really liked and passed on to me. When I really first started falling in love with music, listening and starting to write and produce a little bit, his first self-titled album was my favorite thing ever and it’s definitely still in my top three. “ James Blake will always be a name that I need to say for that. Who are your biggest musical inspirations? It was kind of meant to be somewhat subversive and it stuck.” The name came from my friend’s basement when we were brainstorming, I guess. All my friends went on LDS missions after we graduated in 2017, so it was early 2018 that I started releasing solo music. “It was the name of the band I played with, mainly senior year of high school. How’d the stage name Ritt Momney come to be? There were always people coming through for tours. I missed the filming, but I have friends whose older siblings were extras. Fun Fact: “I went to the high school where High School Musical was filmed, East High School.
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