Student creators, artists use newfound time to improve passions

Creatives across ASU have been doing their best to create content while also balancing school and work For the past year, students across ASU have been balancing school, part-time jobs, internships and creative work, all while making their way through the COVID-19 pandemic. Stuck inside, many have taken the time spent in isolation to create music, live stream on Twitch and create other forms of online content. Zach Caragan Bour is a junior majoring in accounting, minoring in business and pursuing a certificate in entrepreneurship, all of which he hopes will help him break into the music industry as Caragan. “I started (making music) when I was in high school, and I found a club that helped me learn how to produce music,” Bour said. “As I’ve continued college and released more music, I found that I can tie this professional aspect that comes with accounting into a more, like, developed path to pursuing what I want.” Bour said when the COVID-19 pandemic first hit, the “time was tough and productive all at once.” “Promoting myself was kind of difficult because everyone was going through such a hard time mentally, but what I really found instead of self-promotion was self-growth,”…
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