Eric Benét – HuffPost 11.29.10

Mike Ragogna: Can you give some advice for new artists?

Eric Benét: Yeah, if I could offer one bit of advice. Along the way you are going to hear opinions of where you should steer your talent. In other words, there are going to be people that will tell you if you’re a rapper, you should rhyme more like this, or if you’re a musician, you should play more in this direction. Whatever it is, people are going to be telling you what and how you should sound to be successful. My advice is to not discard all of that information but take it with a grain of salt. Let the most prominent voice of all of those opinions be the voice of your inner passion that made you fall in love with the craft, whatever your craft is. Let that be the loudest. Now that I really feel like I’ve grown and matured and evolved into who I am now, I find I have the most success when I listen to my inner voice and make sure that it has the priority over the rest of the voices around me.