For Artists Like Sombr and Gigi Perez, Self-Producing Is ‘An Experiment and an Adventure’

For Artists Like Sombr and Gigi Perez, Self-Producing Is ‘An Experiment and an Adventure’

Gigi Perez will never forget the first self-produced song that she wanted to share with the world. “Please Be Rude,” which she finished last year, was far from her first bedroom demo, but the strummed, slightly lilting meditation on intimate relationship moments felt different to Perez — “like I had cracked the code on my taste,” as she puts it. In just five short years, the New Jersey-born, Florida-raised singer-songwriter had already experie…