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Join as an influencer for free! https://intellifluence.com/influencers Browse Marketplace offers: https://intellifluence.com/marketplace-offers View our top influencers: https://intellifluence.com/influencer-lists William Bishop was born in London and learned cello and double bass as a teenager after developing keen interest in music, performing predominantly orchestral works. Later, he learned how to play the guitar. Having a background in literature and poetry, he writes his own songs and music. Bishop recorded three full length studio albums, each on guitar and piano. His breakthrough single was released in January 2021, receiving critical acclaim from music journalists and airplay from national and international radio stations as well as extensive mainstream media coverage. You can learn more at williamjohntitusbishop.com. I'd like to know about your background. Could you give us a brief introduction into how you got started in music? I started when I was very young. I started at school. And, I learned... I did a lot of music at school. I learned from a very classical sort of background, cello and double bass, and very, very technical, scholastic stuff, and very, very academic music. I learned that all the way through until I left school. And, when I finished school and I started studying at university, I wanted to keep playing music, but I didn't want to necessarily play classical stuff anymore. It was great learning, and it was a fantastic thing to do growing up, and it was a great introduction to music, but I didn't want to pursue that. I wanted to do other sorts of music. So, I learned piano and guitar and I studied writing my own stuff and took it from there. What do you consider to be your career breakthrough, in terms of when you said, "I'm getting traction in this and people are connecting with my music?" That's a really good question. It's very difficult to pinpoint an exact moment, or one thing that happened, that sort of set off other things in motion. It's very difficult to come to one moment, if you like. But, if anything comes to mind, it was when I was speaking to a artist representative from one of the bigger record labels who was... He was a executive at the record company at the time. I think it was Warner Brothers. And, I had a meeting with him, a one-to-one meeting, and I sat there with him. I played him a song, and I said to him, I said, "Be absolutely honest. Do you think I'll get a record conference?" I said, "Be absolutely honest. Do you think I'll get that record?" He said, "Not with us, but go for it. Just don't pursue this particular avenue." And, it was from there that I thought, okay, so maybe not this opportunity, but other opportunities I should go for. So, it gave me the confidence to continue with what I was doing, but at the same time, it gave me a better, sort of a more realistic idea, of where I would maybe get to in the future. Read the full interview: https://intellifluence.com/blog/william-john-titus-bishop-influencer-spotlight Note: Influencer Spotlight interviews are edited for time and clarity.