Jason Soffer is an acoustic singer-songwriter from England. He grew up outside of London and moved to Brooklyn about a year and a half ago. He's in his late twenties and although going to university for business, decided that he truly wanted to try his hand at the music business. He had always loved music and is greatly influenced by The Beatles and James Taylor. He told me that he picked up a guitar one day and just decided that he wanted to learn to play, never thinking that it could end up being a priority in his life. He wrote a lot as a child as well. He writes all of his own music and we spoke about how he goes about writing songs. He said he always heard the music first and the words came second. After performing at a couple of open mic nights in Brooklyn and Manhattan, he met a producer. During the day, he works near Times Square with his brother selling commercial spaces, but by night he works with a music producer in Brooklyn.
Jason and I decided to meet at the Brooklyn Lyceum theater in Park Slope. In exchange for some free prints, he played his music for me and we spent a few hours in the abandoned part of the historic building (which actually used to be a bath house over a hundred years ago). In my opinion he sounds like a mix of James Blunt and maybe a little bit of Thom Yorke of Radiohead.
I'm really glad that I got to meet Jason. As a photographer who wants to focus on being apart of the music business, he gave me some really great material to work with (himself) and some experience at it as well. The best advice he gave me is that you have to do what you really love otherwise you'll constantly be changing your mind in life. I admire his courage and the fact that he's putting himself out there and that inspires me to do the same. I hope he makes it.
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