Punk Rock Meets Science: Welcome to the world of the Son of Stone!
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“Big tech product manager releases music fueled by both setbacks and success in life”
There are not many big tech product managers that have been part of many groundbreaking products and technologies for imaging and audio, that decides to do something totally different … Inspired by his success and setbacks in life, Son of Stone decides to finally release his music.
When Jens Eggert (“Son of Stone”) left Microsoft +2 years ago, he wrote and released a music video called “Seattle” as a tribute to Microsoft and Seattle, a place that’s very dear to his heart due to tech but also to the rock music he grew up with from there. There were many articles written about when he left Microsoft due to him having been part of many groundbreaking products at Microsoft and also Nokia (imaging/camera among other things).
Now two years later “Son of Stone” (SoS) released the album “Live a life worth dying for” and “Seattle” is one of the tracks. The name of the album is from the motto that SoS is living by and the songs are very personal and deals with subjects close to him such as; broken relationships, working too much, personal losses, but most of all the songs are about the will to get back up again when life knocked you down. The song “Find what you love and let it kill you” deals with letting your (work) passion consume you so much that you’re burning yourself out and “Things in life” has the message to focus and love what you have right now, since you don’t know if it lasts.
-“My songs are about my lessons in life, broken relationships, working way too much, feeling really down and getting back up again. But most of all giving the positive message to focus, enjoy and be grateful for all the things you have right now in your life. Don’t focus on what you don’t have. You’ll be much more happy, I promise you that “ (Son of Stone, 04-07-2020)
During these two years when SoS has been making the album he’s also been part of making Jabra a household name in the headphones business. Inspired by the fast moving SW development at Jabra he changed his mind about how to release music:
-”Releasing music every second or third year is part of the old way of how music was done. I’m releasing a new song every week inspired how ´Sprints´ work in software development using Scrum. This gives the listeners new great small things all the time” (Son of Stone, 04-07-2020)
During Covid 17 lockdown SoS has released a second album “Back from the dead” (just three month after his first album) and it celebrates life. SoS third album “From dark to light” will debut on the 10th of July and the first single from the album is a song called “Silicon Valley” and is a celebration song to the greatest place on “tech earth”.
-“I wrote ‘Silicon Valley’ as a celebration to the tech industry that has given so much to me, I wanted to capture the energy and creative fire that burns there and in my heart” (Son of Stone, 04-07-2020)
SoS gets his inspiration from music that he grew up with like Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden, Metallica, Green Day etc. Later in life when he worked for Microsoft (Seattle) it felt like coming home and closing the circle of life.
* “Silicon Valley” song: VIDEO and AUDIO (pre release)
* The song “Silicon Valley” will debute on all streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music etc.) at 3am Friday the 10th of July (Distributer page with Spotify, Apple Music urls). SoS have had over 500K streams in the first six months of 2020.
Information:
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