Living with autism and making it in music: Andrew Kingslow

The Brave Front

Successful music producer, Andrew Kingslow, has worked alongside music royalty including John Legend and BB King. However, throughout his illustrious career he has struggled with anxiety and depression, eventually receiving a diagnosis of autism as an adult. In our exclusive interview, Andrew tells us how he masked his autism from the world, overcame a host of personal demons and took the brave step to seek support. And today, as an ambassador for the neurodivergent community across the music industry, he talks about his hope to help others to overcome the challenges and barriers that he faced. Show outline: 00:00:07 - 00:03:05 - Introduction and sneak preview 00:03:06 - 00:11:20 - Andrew’s career - from John Legend to Rastamouse 00:12:54 - 00:17:34 - Working as ‘the Neuro Muso’ 00:17:45 - 00:30:54 - Living with autism and being diagnosed as an adult 00:30:55 - 00:36:34 - The lowest point and climbing out 00:36:35 - 00:44:15 - Changing the music industry 00:44:16 - 00:49:05 - Looking to the future Useful links: Answer Andrew’s survey: Electric Pineapple And The London Autism Group Charity Survey: https://tinyurl.com/nd-musicians Andrew Kingslow, the Neuro Muso website: https://theneuromuso.godaddysites.com/ London Autism Group Charity: https://www.londonautismgroupcharity.org/ Share the show: If you’ve enjoyed this episode of The Brave Front, you can share it through any of the following links: Our Linktree site (for links to all the podcast platforms): linktr.ee/thebravefront Spotify Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Amazon Music Interact with the show: Answer our episode question on the Spotify episode page Get in touch Send us a voice message --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thebravefront/message