Jean Dawson’s life reads like a movie. Born in San Diego to a military father from Long Beach and a Mexican mother from Sinaloa, he relocated to
Jean Dawson’s life reads like a movie. Born in San Diego to a military father from Long Beach and a Mexican mother from Sinaloa, he relocated to Tijuana, where he spent his childhood crossing the border to continue attending American schools. But it was an arduous road—literally and figuratively. He and his brother would wake up before sunrise, take a 20-minute bus ride to the border, and wait in line for hours to get into the United States.
For the sake of this interview, let’s pretend we’ve never spoken before. Tell me about your upbringing. By the time I got there, other kids are walking in, fresh-faced, little lunch pails and stuff. But I just had to traverse an entire country in order to get the same level of education, so I really took my education seriously. Yeah, but I wasn’t cognizant of it when I was that young. I didn’t know how to feel about it. My cousins did it, and my aunts did it to go to work. I didn’t feel like it was something that was necessarily fucked up or not. But I didn’t feel like it was like a deterrent.
I have so much gratitude that I get to do this. I made a decision when I was 21 when I was going through a really rough time. I was in college and working on my first album in my dorm room. For whatever reason, my family’s predisposed to depression. When I was a kid, part of the reason why I moved to Mexico was because depression runs in my family. When I was 21, I had to leave school, put everything on hold because I wanted to kill myself every day.
My mental health will suffer. Thankfully, I’ve connected with people. And people understand where I’m coming from, and I’m able to communicate in a way I was never able to as a child.My life experience has put me in a place where I’m very aware that this thing that I’m able to do is one in a million of a chance. It’s still not guaranteed that I’m able to do this thing forever. And if nothing is guaranteed, the only thing that’s guaranteed is that I’m gonna work my ass off until I can’t anymore.
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