Maggie Szabo, proper priorities and nice music.
Whew! Tik Tok is again, at the least for now. As a music author, I like TikTok as a result of it offers me a possibility to see features of artists I don’t get to see on different platforms, an in depth look into their lives. Positive, many artists submit intimate appears to be like into their every day lives on FB and Insta, however Tik Tok simply appears to be made for tighter engagement.
Whereas there isn’t an actual quantity identified for what number of musical artists submit on TikTok, the platform has turn into a big pressure within the music trade, with quite a few artists using it to advertise their music and join with followers and folks like me. 1000’s of musicians have discovered success by TikTok, The attain of TikTok for artists is simple; the highest 10 most-followed music artists on TikTok have between 51 million and 94 million followers every. Over 70 artists broke by on the platform receiving main label offers lately.
A kind of that I observe on Tik Tok to maintain up along with her life, despite the fact that she made the leap main success a while in the past, is Maggie Szabo.
Maggie is an LA-based Canadian pop singer who I first met 11 years in the past once I noticed her carry out her tune “Tidal Waves and Hurricanes” at Hollywood’s Resort Café. The tune grabbed me and remains to be holding on a decade later.
Neither tidal waves and hurricanes – nor Covid nor motherhood, nor anything- have held her again. She was a part of the workforce that wrote “SloMo” for Chanel which gained Third Place within the 2022 Eurovision. And he or she is a mother, a weight lifter, and a Multi-Platinum & Billboard #1 songwriter. Her tune, “Uh Oh,” carried out with Troy Samson, is featured within the Netflix film “One in every of Them Days”, certainly one of over 50 notable placements in movie and tv, together with on platforms comparable to Disney, ABC, NBC, and Netflix.
So why do I like to observe Szabo on Tic Tok. As a result of in addition to being an extremely proficient singer and songwriter (with a brand new tune out “By no means Harm Me”) she is now a mom of two younger sons and has a discovered a work-life steadiness that most individuals by no means fairly obtain. I can watch all of it on Tik Tok,
I can watch her weight-lifting within the fitness center and observe her progress (higher than mine!). I can watch her within the recording studio with a child on her chest, belting out her newest tune, I can see her figuring out within the again yard along with her husband, enjoying with the youngsters (I’ve met certainly one of her sons and he’s a giant boy with a lot of vitality), and see her recording in her most snug hoodie. I even received to see video of her packing to maneuver into a brand new home. (picture. Maggie figuring out along with her son)
Positive, different entertainers submit “intimate” moments of themselves on Tik Tok and Insta and FB, however Maggie is not only one other entertainer with a cellphone. She is a distinctive mixture of stratospheric expertise with 532 million streams in whole final yr, and a fantastic all the way down to earth human being who has her priorities precisely proper. – youngsters, household, and a number of the greatest music you’ll ever hear.
What could possibly be higher?
Hearken to her newest tune, “By no means Harm Me” on Spotify and different main platforms; observe her on Instagram , FB and naturally, on Tick Tok
Patrick O’Heffernan
Banner picture. Maggie Szabo on the Resort Cafe the primary time I noticed her carry out, 11.6.13. Photograph by Justin Higuchi
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