Music, Politics, Crypto #introduceyourself

Hello world of Steemit.

Finally been able to setup my account. I'm very excited to discover and learn how to use the platform in the next few days.
That being said, allow me to #introducemyself quickly. A lot of the topics/stuff I mention in this intro will most likely be coming back in later posts.

My name is Jean. I'm a 21 year old French student and I've spent most of my life living in the UK, France and the U.S. I'm currently in my final year studying International Relations and Political Science at the University of Birmingham. Just below is a picture of me doing a DJ set at my University's yearly student-run charity festival. It's called ValeFest and its the biggest student-run charity festival in Europe. I'll get back to the music stuff shortly.

International Relations, Political Science as well as Philosophy, are all subjects i'm deeply interested in. To give specific topics; I have a particular interest for international diplomacy, Cold War history, and philosophical topics like human nature and society. But I'm far from being tempted in any way to become a politician. My real passion lies in MUSIC. Music has been a part of my everyday life forever. I started playing guitar at the age of 12 and soon got into a band. Following this first experience making music, I discovered electronic music production. Since then, I've spent nearly everyday working on music projects of all kinds.

I first started producing tracks that I release under my artist name. But now I've also started producing tracks, remixes and other audio material for other artists/clients. My biggest achievement yet as a "proffessional" producer (as opposed to my artist career) comes from a track I remixed for a competition. It was chosen as a winner and has since been released on Sony Global and Ultra, reaching over 100k plays on Spotify. As a young producer who still focuses mainly on his university degree, this was a huge milestone in helping me choose which direction to take next for my music projects. I'm currently working on my debut Album which should come out before summer, and I've got a lot of tracks i've worked on as a producer with other artists in the works too.

Before I end this introduceyourself post, I feel like I need to mention my crypto-enthusiasm. I first read about Bitcoin more than 2 years ago, but at the time paid no real attention to it. I only started investing and doing more research late 2016. Since then, I've grown to admire and wish the best for many of the blockchain related projects I've had the luck of discovering. I've even helped out with some audio work for Vertcoin, which was really cool because I made business merging two of the things that interest me the most! Steemit, and this post, is my latest venture into one of these projects which I am really looking forward to see grow. I plan on talking about many different things, most of them already mentioned here. And I'm really looking forward to discovering how the Steemit community works and grows.