Ever since he was little, Kashi Kagan had just one dream.

So the dream was to be heard, you know, for someone to and and I wanted to do it as a as a career right I wanted to be a

Recording artist and that is a big dream obviously

When he was in his early 20s, he put everything into music, all his money, his time.

I didn't socialize at all.

When I wasn't working, I would be in my parents living room writing songs.

He was living with his parents in England and working in a hospital.

Some of that money went towards helping them with their bills and mortgage, but everything else

went towards making songs.

He'd rent out a recording studio that had discounted rates for a very specific reason.

The studio, it was a converted toilet actually in...

What?

Yeah.

It was called the loop hole. But initially I thought he he said the loo hole.

Kashi didn't have a lot of knowledge of the music industry. His dad was a postman and his mom worked in a factory.

So his goal was just to get his music in front of as many people as possible.

He'd rent out the studio for about $50 an hour and each song would take at least 12 hours to record.

So you can see how quickly it adds up.

So wait 12 hours, 50, that's like what, 600 dollars a song yeah I would trust your maths because mine is terrible

he'd record demos and send out CDs and he'd also upload all of his songs to a website called

Reverb Nation in hopes of a record company discovering him there.

Over the years he'd written hundreds of songs but had never earned a single cent for many of them.

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