My story! I'm on a Path of Discovery through an Intuitive Following of Passions & Removal of Blockages.

My tools focus through The Art of Journaling. I have 10 years experience with allowing this practice to fully flourish my creativity.

My expertise in the music industry resolves around the Networking, Writing, Blogging, Promotions, Public Relations, Brand Development, A&R ( Talent Scouting and Artist Development), Advising, Artist Management, Planting Ideas, Strategy, Music Marketing, Digital, Graphic Design, Editing and more.

Strengths in self development, communication & connecting the dots have led to profound growth and the ability to help others accomplish their goals.

Sofia Raisanen’s creativity stems from an intuitive self-reflection of ancient knowledge, an intuitive following of passions which has led into to the now. A first-generation American and Texas native, she is of Mexican and Finnish heritage. A true bilingual communicator, her fluency surrounds both Spanish and English, having developed a linguistic depth at a very young age.

She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder from 2007-2010 and passionately pursued the creative fields of Communication and Linguistics ; one of her favorite Linguistics projects was focused in Morphology which consisted of breaking down the language of Gujarati, spoken in West India and figuring out its structure, syntax, and semantics, which ultimately furthered development in the field and learning the language in a rapid fashion.

During profound moments spent in time in Boulder and surrounded by mountains in 2009, Sofia had the urge to pick up a blank journal which led to writing in it consistently, and as of today, it still remains a fresh passion.

In 2011, and at 22 years old, Raisanen moved back to Dallas, Texas where she first dove into the world of music promotions starting with Banjos.to.Beats. Seven months later, in February 2012, Sofia became co-owner of her friend’s event production company based in Austin, Texas, which eventually led to moving there Spring of 2013. During early 2012, there was a vision and removed a blockage two years later, through the Art of Journaling.

In October 2013, Afro Monk (whom she had met mid-2011 in Dallas) proposed an invitation to be a contributor for his blog, where her creative alias, Clear Shadow ( removal of blockages ), first appeared. Since then, Sofia has published over 300 publications in 9 different outlets/web magazines/blogs as a freelancer.

Outside of banjos.to.beats promotion starting in 2011, she has experience with promotions with The Parish (venue), Art Seen Alliance, and Art Outside. In October 2014, Street Ritual Records pulled her in as their in-house writer and a few months later, in January 2015, she also evolved as their PR Director, A&R, Brand Development, Co-Marketing Director. Also around October 2014, Raisanen became a writer for Evolver EDM (music section of Reality Sandwich). In the Fall of 2015, she became a Talent Agent under Street Ritual Agency representing international artist, Hedflux [ UK ], AMB [ Hungary ] and KarmasynK [ India ] www.StreetRitual.com

2018 is a fresh new start. Four months ago, I let go of ALL of my major roles in the music industry to focus more on writing in a variety of styles. I will continue to tap into creative passions.