Daniel Hawes

Lyricist & top-liner

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Need a catchy chorus or deep and meaningful lyrics? I'm the man for you!

Singer & songwriter based in Warsaw, Poland. Part of an emerging songwriting team working with many popular polish artists and influencers as well as Netflix productions. Ready for any challenge that comes my way!

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Languages

  • English

Interview with Daniel Hawes

  1. Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?

  2. A: I had an opportunity to write a song for a netflix series and also have a cameo in it!

  3. Q: What are you working on at the moment?

  4. A: Working on Solo projects and for clients in Warsaw

  5. Q: Analog or digital and why?

  6. A: it really depends on the mood in which we are working with - so I'd say a little bit of both

  7. Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?

  8. A: I promise to give me 100% in to each project! I really love what I do!

  9. Q: What do you like most about your job?

  10. A: Networking and listing to others stories and experiences

  11. Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

  12. A: How quickly are you able to write a whole song? It depends on how much infomation I get on what I'm supposed to write about, on how comfortable I feel in the genre and the deadline

  13. Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?

  14. A: That it's a fast process

  15. Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

  16. A: What is the main goal of the final project & what are you trying to achieve?

  17. Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

  18. A: Make sure before you decide to hire someone, if you have the same vibe and vision

  19. Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?

  20. A: Guitar, Piano, Microphone, headphones and mac

  21. Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?

  22. A: After many years of only singing at home and writing for myself I signed up for the Voice of Poland and gained a lot of great contacts and opportunities. I released my first single only last year! But have moved on a lot since then

  23. Q: How would you describe your style?

  24. A: Cozy yet sometimes cold

  25. Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?

  26. A: Sam Tompkins. The man in insane. Every single one of his songs are incredible

  27. Q: Can you share one music production tip?

  28. A: The more you try to make the lyrics "artistic" & "deep" the more hollow and shallow they will end up being. Be real and just let the words come out on their own

  29. Q: What type of music do you usually work on?

  30. A: mostly pop but I like to experiment!

  31. Q: What's your strongest skill?

  32. A: most definitely creating catchy top-lines for choruses

  33. Q: What do you bring to a song?

  34. A: I try to bring a perfect balance of catchiness and meaningful lyricism

  35. Q: What's your typical work process?

  36. A: I start by listening to some inspirations and then start fiddling around with my guitar or piano for some nice chords and then I start singing a top-line on to which I later write the lyrics

  37. Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

  38. A: I work as a songwriter in a songwriting team, and we use a universal audio apollo twin audio inteface, ableton, shure sm7b, native instruments midi keyboard

  39. Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?

  40. A: I get super inspired by not only artists that are in the same genre as I but I also get inspired by rappers a lot like NF, CORDEA, LOGIC,

  41. Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.

  42. A: The most common type of work I do for clients is writing lyrics, thinking of top-lines and melodies for the song

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