Juhani Mykkänen’s podcast|Henri Salonen founded the successful band Smak as a teenager and became a top producer until he stopped making music altogether.
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Producer Henri Salonen became known as Hank Solo. During the Corona period, he got burnout and stopped making music.
Salonen had previously produced hits for Finnish artists such as Sanni and Kasmir, as well as American Ava Max.
After recovering from burnout, Salonen became interested in cryptocurrencies and has since rediscovered music, but in a different way.
in the 2010s Henri from Salos became a significant producer in the Finnish music business. Under the stage name Hank Solo, he helped raise Sannin and of Kashmir to success, won Emma statues and continued his career in Los Angeles, where he produced songs for, among others, the American singer-songwriter Ava Maxille.
Then came the corona, Salonen stopped his music work and got excited about cryptocurrencies. What happened, Juhani Mykkänen asks Salose, who is a guest on his podcast.
“I don’t know,” Salonen says and laughs. “Maybe with the corona the rest of the screws fell out of my head or something.”
Coronaan when Salonen started, he lived in Los Angeles and his life turned upside down.
“All the places were closed and the sessions were canceled and at that point there was already a pretty significant nascent burnout, which I didn’t admit to myself at the time,” says Salonen in the podcast episode, which you can listen to by clicking here.
Burnout had already manifested itself before the corona virus as mental and physical fatigue. Salonen still pushed forward at full speed: it seemed that since the iron is hot, it must be forged by all means. Only the pandemic forced a stop.
“I’ve navigated my life with the power of intuition, and at that point I had to trust intuition. I didn’t really make any music for about a year and a half.”
Instead Salonen started studying macroeconomics and how central banks work. He got excited about cryptocurrencies.
“Until I was about thirty, music was all there was. I defined myself as a person completely through it,” says Salonen.
Kryptos became a passion alongside music, and it has contributed to balancing Salonen’s life.
“Through therapy and burnout and everything, I’ve fortunately learned to get rid of the fact that I no longer define myself as a person through music.”
Since then, Salonen says he has rediscovered music.
“I don’t know if I want to package it again in that radio pop mold right now. But I want to do cool and sweet things with interesting people, definitely.”
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