Greetings Steemians!
I'm Jonah, 23 years old living in NYC.
It’s fair to say I’ve always been a child of the internet. When I was in highschool I would spend much of my free time alone in my room wearing a spiderman mask, sitting at my yamaha keyboard, taking song requests from random strangers on chat-roulette. Since then not too much has changed. In 2013 I stumbled upon a livestreaming website called YouNow.com. I made the tough choice of leaving my spidey mask behind, grabbed my keyboard and guitar and hit the “go live” button. In my first broadcast I had maybe 6 or 7 viewers, but I had the BEST time getting to connect with those people. I was sold on livestreaming but I never could have expected what would follow.
In under 6 months I had surpassed 100,000 followers on YouNow. I became partnered with the platform around which point YouNow would ask me to represent them in interviews, press releases, and even series pilots. http://mashable.com/2016/01/15/younow-roker/#SNB1vMUsBPqx
Soon after I was picked up by a few social media tours where I had the opportunity to perform around the country, record my first album Extrospection and even open for Demi Lovato at Citi Field for DigiFest 2015.
While in the process of recording my second album, I learned some harsh lessons about the music industry, working with the wrong producers and ultimately the project fell through. This was a very humbling experience and I decided to take a break from social media in order to further educate myself about production. I enrolled in a program through Berklee College of Music where I received a Master's certificate in commercial songwriting and music production. The following summer I began (and still am currently) working as an audio engineer at Platinum Sound recording studio in midtown NYC. At Platinum I’ve had the opportunity and privilege of working with and assisting some incredible people such as grammy winning engineer Serge Tsai, producer Jerry Wonda and legendary artists like, T.I., Mario Winans, Kendrick Lamar, P. Diddy and Mary J Blige.
The path of a music producer so far has been full of excitement, creativity, and instability, and I still have A LOT to learn, but I finally feel confident enough in my knowledge and experience as a producer as well as a live broadcaster to return to social media and share my experiences with you all again. And what better place than steemit right?
So here’s what I’m doing:
I’ll be streaming live (still undecided on the platform- open to suggestions) at least 3 days a week.
MusicMonday- Using Ableton Live software and OBS we (the chat and I) will literally create a song together from scratch. You guys will have the final say on all the instruments, lyrics, melodies.. and at the end of the stream, I will GIVE AWAY THE SONG to my subscribers.
WildcardWednesday- Always a mystery! This day will be more open to creativity and will be different every week.
FunFriday(working title)- Gaming day. Did I mention I’m an extremely passionate gamer? I have an Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, and Oculus Rift! I plan on playing a whole multitude of games with you guys, but my current faves are Overwatch, Rocket League, Echo Arena and vrChat.
I’m still brand new to steemit, but I’ve already came across Dtube and it seems like the perfect place for me to post my streams and/or highlights for people that can’t make it live, and I’ll definitely be looking more into that.
The livestreams are 100% free and always will be but they take a lot of time, energy and preparation so if you would like to show your support (and get some sweet rewards) please consider checking out my patreon https://www.patreon.com/JonahLesnick
My girlfriend 
My ultimate goal is to grow a community of people who are SuperDope.
To be SuperDope means to be positive, accepting, and to recognize that everyone is super dope!
To be a part of the community, just use the #SuperDope tag when you post and make sure to upvote others using the tag to support the rest of the fam!
My YouNow page: https://www.younow.com/JonahLesnick/channel
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SuperDope
twitter/instagram: @JonahLesnick
I’m so hyped to finally be a part of the steemit community and I’m super excited for all the friendships and fun times ahead! Thanks for taking the time to read all this! You are #SuperDope!