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b'SUPPORT ME ON PATREON\\n\\nWATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE\\n\\nMultitalented people are not rare. The creative brain tends to think that everything has the potential to be something. And if that brain also has talent and interest in an area, that person won\\u2019t be able to resist making something new. I can think of a dozen famous people offhand who do at least two things really well.\\n\\nWhat is rarer is people knowing how multitalented someone is. Most successful artists are known for one thing, two at most. Jamie Foxx is a comedian, actor, & singer. He\\u2019s also a songwriter and accomplished pianist. Tom Hanks is an actor and a producer. He\\u2019s also a writer & an app designer. Reese Witherspoon is an actor & producer. She\\u2019s also a singer & writer. Lupita Nyong\'o is an acclaimed actor. She\\u2019s also a writer & TV producer. This doesn\\u2019t even get into all their non-creative work in business, charity, etc. And these are only four of thousands and thousands.\\n\\nAmong that group is Shaun Cassidy. If you know him at all, first of all you\\u2019re old. Secondly, you probably know him as David Cassidy\\u2019s little brother, or the costar of The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. Or as this week\\u2019s album shows, a pop singer. But he\\u2019s done way more.\\n\\nI loved this album. So much that I had the accompanying poster on my bedroom closet door. It was mostly because of the cover of The Crystals\' "Da Doo Ron Ron". But it was the overall poppiness too. Granted, I was 7 when it came out, but I stand by that pre-teen taste even now, because if we\'re honest it never really goes away. Then I kind of grew out of him. His next two albums were successful too, and he did lots of TV and stage acting, but I had no interest in most of it.\\n\\nIn the mid 1990s, I heard his name again, this time as the creator, writer & producer of American Gothic. I didn\\u2019t watch it, but a couple years later I heard his name again, as the creator of Roar, starring Heath Ledger. I loved that show. From then on I kept tabs on Shaun, who has stuck to behind the scenes TV work, including the current show New Amsterdam. And I constantly look out for other less famous things that famous people do well.\\n\\nI\\u2019m one of those non-rare polymaths as well. If you\\u2019ve been following along, you know that I do this podcast in part to promote my own music - most of which I write, sing, play and produce myself. But I\\u2019m also a voice actor, and have done several voice overs for commercials, films and video games. And I\\u2019m an actor actor too - stage, film and TV. I\\u2019m a writer - fiction, nonfiction and poetry. And a graphic artist and photographer. I\\u2019ll even dance if you kick me. I do all this for many reasons. It\\u2019s fun. I\\u2019m restless. I CAN. I like multiple sources of income. I like bouncing between seemingly disparate forms of art. It cleanses the palate, and in the process you can find insight and connections you never would have if you\\u2019d stuck to one thing. But mainly I do it because it\\u2019s how I absorb and interpret the world. How I make sense of life.\\n\\nCheck out these projects I\\u2019ve created or contributed to:\\nMUSIC: The Weird Objective - https://www.nickdematteo.com/rectheweirdobjective\\nGRAPHIC DESIGN: SnerkShirts by FEEK \\u2013 https://snerkshirtsbyfeek.com\\nVOICE OVERS: my VO reel - https://youtu.be/wEoWto1gUeM\\nACTING: The Many Saints of Newark - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8110232/\\nPHOTOGRAPHY: Hands Down - http://bit.ly/handsdownphotos\\n\\n\\n--- \\n\\nThis episode is sponsored by \\n\\xb7 Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app\\n\\nSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/musicisnotagenre/support\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'