Ari Herstand wears many hats atop his fro. Since releasing his previous album, Brave Enough, in 2014 he’s released a best-selling book (two editions), appeared on various TV shows as an actor, toured the world as a speaker, launched Ari’s Take Academy online music business school, a throwback 1970s inspired funk project Brassroots District, and the New Music Business podcast.
And went through a breakup from an 11 year relationship.
The latter being the most influential to his life and career. Herstand reveals "We met in college, toured the country, moved to LA, started a life here, and a little over a year ago, decided to part ways. This relationship lasted 1/3 of my life. Over a decade. The breakup wasn’t dramatic in the traditional sense. But it was monumental and painful. An end of an era. For the first month of our conscious uncoupling, we still lived together. That presented warped versions of reality and an imbalance unlike anything I had experienced up until that point.”