Isaiah started a 37 week challenge where he releases a song every Monday for 37 consecutive weeks. The second season of the series recently begun.
Image: Isaiah Mostafa shot by Rohan DaCosta (Instagram)
Oakland-based eclectic artist Isaiah Mostafa is a legend in the flesh. The alternative R&B neo-soul and pop artist has no bounds to his limits. He can sing, produce, write, mix and master music – and beyond all of that he is into yoga, stretching, and all-round wellness.
“I make music to stretch to,” Isaiah Mostafa says of his music. “Self care slaps. But I be going dumb too! Most my songs would make your gramma call me a nice boy but ima whole ass person.. so I be gettin sexy.”
At a glance, the “Aurange” performing artist comes off as a “hippie”, but he is clumsily brilliant. Starting August 2020, the wavy mastermind who also dabbles in the art of psychedelic tunes and a health-conscious lifestyle, embarked on a challenge to release music every Monday for 37 weeks straight without any drawbacks – feeding his fans a multitude of genres of music in the process.
The relentless mission has seen him drop off an array of records and he has already began the series’ second run this year.
“I’m on a mission! I’m not just tryna get famous. I am connected to the change makers, the community organizers, the visionaries and the revolutionaries. So anybody who is exposed to me is introduced to my world and my people. And my people go crazy and have the most to say, the purest intentions, the skills to make it all happen, and need to be funded!” he says of the challenge, as he hopes to galvanize another challenge soon, this time with 37 other creatives.
He also mentions the challenge is driven to help others believe that they can also achieve anything they put their mind to:
“I came up with the challenge to encourage myself to stop sleeping on myself, and as a call to action for those in my community to start living into their dreams too,” the charming Bay Area nurtured creator reveals.
Currently, Isaiah’s dedication and guile to his music again highlights why the “All I Wanna Do” adroit is a unicorn artist with a hunger that is carved out for success. His undivided attention and unapologetic impetus backed by his genius ethos spells greatness.
His latest music video “Freemotions” has a slated January 19th release date, and this will further his top form.
“‘Freemotions’ is a dedication to my old neighborhood in South Berkeley, along with my family and my fellow creatives in The Bay who stay supporting me through all of my phases and growing pains,” Mostafa said. “Gentrification has pushed most of my family out of The Bay at this point so I wanted to make something in commemoration of home that provokes the nostalgia I feel every time I drive down my grandma’s block.”
The challenge is also reminiscent to the famous Kanye West G.O.O.D Fridays where the music and fashion mogul released a plethora of records weekly alongside his A-List collaborators spawning major records like “Christian Dior Denim Flow”, “Chain Heavy”, “Christmas In Harlem” and more archival tracks that timestamped the era as one of the greatest moments in Hip Hop that epitomized a catharsis of epic track releases at a consecutive shot.
Set a reminder for Isaiah Mostafa’s new record “Freemotions” here:
Listen to every song from the first edition of the 37-week challenge dated August 31st to May 2020 to May 10th 2021 here:
Stay updated with Isaiah through his website below:
