Encantado Magazine December 2017 Issue | Page 52

The “Beautiful” Project Local Music Tarius & Adam Fierro T that his people and all people could be proud of. I told his has become a project held very near and dear him I would love to help him bring his dream to life. I to our hearts. The project involves artists Ron “Tari- immediately gathered some beats for Adam and sent us” Mahoney and Adam Fierro. As a music artist I have been in the busi- ness for over ten years winning var- ious awards and have been blessed to be on college radio, performed on BET, NBC and even opened up for many well known r&b artists such as Jon B, Boyz to men, Bobby Val- entino, Deborah Cox and Color Me Badd. Adam is an Albuquerque na- tive and a third generation jeweler and has been crafting contemporary and traditional style jewelry all his life. Beautiful, the song was born a few months ago when good friend and jewelry designer Adam Fierro called me and requested some graphic de- sign work in addition to the work he received from me months prior. In that same discussion, he explained to me that he loved designing jew- elry for his customers, but was very interested in expanding his creative side into music. He told me that he always loved music, but never re- ally had the chance to explore that love. He had seen and heard my work as an independent solo artist on my YouTube channel (CLICK HERE) and was inter- ested in my help for a musical collaboration. He also expressed how important it was for him to represent his native culture and to be a shining representation of that culture. He wanted to put something out there them through email. One beat stood out to him in particular. That favored beat would become the music behind “Beautiful”. Initially there were so many con- cepts going through Adam’s mind that he asked for some help in the direction of the song. He told me he wanted to create a song that was a tribute to the strong, independent, hard-working woman. I imme- diately had concepts in my head. I sat down and wrote the hook/chorus of the song and gave it back to Adam