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Building a career in music without losing your voice, your values, or your spark takes work. Here are some of today's boldest artists on what they wish they'd known sooner.

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Nova Lune singing at a vintage microphone — photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels

Nova Lune

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The genre-blurring vocalist opens up about the advice her first producer, Delia Roan, gave her before she ever cut a record.

Static Palm's two guitarists playing together in warm light — photo by Daniel Twal on Pexels

Static Palm

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After fifteen years on the road, Static Palm's Mara Quin and Theo Vance trade the hard-won lessons that keep the band together.

Kofi Mensah in a moody portrait beside a studio microphone — photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels

Kofi Mensah

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When the doubt creeps in, Kofi Mensah leans on a single line his grandmother told him and never quite let go of.

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