Online magazine Canvas Rebel interview with Kaity Heart
Full interview here:
https://canvasrebel.com/meet-kaity-heart/
We recently connected with Kaity Heart and have shared our conversation below. 
Alright, Kaity thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?
My whole life has been one big risk. One right after another. In fact, at this point I don’t think I could live a normal existence without the thrill of the risk. In my short years on this earth; I pursued a degree in the arts, I’ve started and ended podcasts, done radio work, sang with countless bands, opened and ran a business for 12 years with absolutely no previous experience and then chose to close it to pursue singing full time…at the beginning of another recession.
And every one of those opportunities start and stop with a simple question: ‘What’s the worst that could happen?’
Seriously. Sit down and ask yourself: ‘What’s the very worst that could happen?’ You’re not gonna die if you take a job you genuinely love. Sure, money may not be as good-but if you’re happy what does it matter? Of course, circumstances are different for everyone-but for me-I keep taking calculated risks and it always works out.
I’m living one very incredible risk as we speak with a brand new original 70’s rock band ‘Sunflower Fox and the Chicken Leg’ and ‘What’s the worst that could happen’ has become the bands new motto. We have reached out to the highest echelon of mixing engineers, PR agencies, and studios around the country and by some miracle…they’re answering back.
Not only are they answering back-they’re happy to work with us. People we never thought would even speak to us. People that we had convinced ourselves that ‘No. That’s a waste of time. They’re literally never going to work with us. We’re too new’ Finally-we just asked the question.
‘What’s the worst that could happen?’
‘They’re going to say no’
‘Oh. Well it’s worth a shot then’
Because we took the risk. The risk of getting rejected again-because the music industry is frankly nothing but rejection. We are working with Grammy Award winning engineer Ron Nevison (Worked with The Who, Led Zepplin, Heart, Bad Company etc) and recording all over the country at Pachyderm Studios (Nirvana/Live), Studio in the Country (Kansas/Stevie Wonder) and Sonic Ranch (Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Dropkick Murphys)
It is literally changing our lives. Right now.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
[https://sunfoxband.com/fullbio/]
What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?
There are a couple of things that I and we as a band are trying to do:
1. Bring back the magic of a live room experience
Technology is so accessible (and that’s a good thing!) but it’s made it so recording and making an album isn’t as special as it used to be. Now you can literally just go to a friends basement and just record whatever, whenever and fix it in post and make it absolutely perfect. Whereas before these programs, you’d have to be well rehearsed, go in as a group-play the song together until you get it. You can capture some magical things as a group. You can really capture the humanity when everyone plays together as a unit as opposed to by yourself. There is also something to be said about the history of a location. Knowing that great musicians played and recorded in the room is humbling and electrifying at the same time.
2. Bring back rock and roll
Rock and roll has been on the back burner for a while. It’s not even shown in the Grammys anymore. Fun. Unpasteurized. Uncomplicated rock and roll for the fun of it. It’s nice to have an escape every once in a while.
In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?
There are so many things you can do with or without paying for anything:
Zero cost things that go really far:
-Liking and following all artists platforms (this includes music streaming)
-Signing up for email campaigns
-Viewing any videos or shorts
-Showing up to no cost shows
Financial Support include:
-Buying merch (streaming pays less than a penny per stream! This helps a lot!)
-Subscribing to Patreon or helping with any crowdfunding (Tours/Vinyl Pressing etc have a lot of up front costs-this helps keep us away from taking out any high interest loans)
-Coming to shows! Of course we want to see you! People have stopped coming to lives shows and we LOVE meeting new friends and fans and it is truly one of the best parts of my job
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