WAY UP

Yamaha's emerging talent initiative introducing upcoming artists and new music.

ARTIST PROFILES

JNR WILLIAMS

Singer-Songwriter

London, UK


WYLDEST

Singer-Songwriter
Producer

London, UK


Maggie Miles

Singer-Songwriter

Nashville, US


Rubin Henkel

Composer

Berlin, Germany


DOCUMENTARY

Documentary series following the journey of 6 emerging artists from across Europe, coming together for an exclusive song writing experience in Barcelona, living in a villa filled with instruments and a home studio, on the mission to collaborate, create music and perform live.

EPISODE 1: WRITING & COMPOSING

6 upcoming artists who haven’t met before, arrive at the House of Talents in Barcelona. They form teams of two and start their mission to create songs in three days, leading up to a final performance of their work in an intimate concert. The first episode captures the beginning of this creative journey, from the artists getting to know each other, to start writing lyrics and composing melodies.

EPISODE 2: STUDIO TIME

On the second day in the House of Talents, the artists get the chance to experiment with their tracks in the villa’s home studio. Producer Jesus supports them with refining song layers and exploring new instruments. Yamaha artist Miki Santamaria pays a visit to support the new talents in their creative process.

EPISODE 3: FINAL PERFORMANCE

On the final day in the House of Talents the artists get ready to perform their individual songs that they have been working on the past days. In an intimate concert they showcase their results in front of each other.

PANELS

WAY UP’s emerging artists come together in different places around the world to talk about their experiences in the music industry, what it means to express themselves through their songs and how they progress personally with their music.

TOKYO

JAPAN

TOKYO, JAPAN

UK artists JNR Williams and Wyldest from London meet with US artist Maggie Miles from Nashville. At the Yamaha Ginza Hall in Tokyo, the emerging artists share experiences in song-writing and how music empowers them to express their emotions and convey a message.

MUSIC

The WAY UP playlist features a selection of original music by the emerging artist introduced in the WAY UP video series.

PODCASTS

WAY UP: HOUSE OF TALENTS is a complementing podcast to Yamaha’s emerging talent three-part documentary. Host Parisa Tarjomani talks to some of the artists who were invited to an exclusive song writing experience this summer in Spain, where Yamaha brought together upcoming artists from across Europe to a villa in Barcelona, filled with Instruments and a home studio, providing a perfect environment to create music and collaborate. The artists, who hadn’t met before, formed teams of two, and within three days, came up with lyrics, composed a melody, recorded the track and on the final day, each team performed their song live in an intimate concert. LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE RIGHT NOW!