The Sunday Music Drop is a weekly radio series hosted by the KQED weekend news team. In each segment, we feature a song from a local musician or band with an upcoming show and hear about what inspires their music.
Singer, producer and songwriter Ryan Lopilato from the Oakland band Credit Electric says their song “House of Cancer” from the album Six is about longing for something that you know you shouldn’t have right now and dealing with the place that you’re in.
Lopilato has been making music since high school and looked up to other musicians as role models. He was born in New Jersey and moved to the Bay Area when he was 19.
He uses music as a tool of expression and a way to navigate his emotions. When it comes to working on a song, he arranges everything himself before bringing it to other people.
“[Other people] have their whole background of what tastes they have, and they just totally kind of like change and alter the track,” said Lopilato.