Josh Irish didn’t really choose to launch his music career.
He graduated from Northeastern University in December 2019 with the expectation that he’d take some time off and then start applying to marketing jobs in New York City. But a few months later, in March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
He moved back to Roxbury, Massachusetts, to live with his parents, and with nothing but spare time, bought some recording equipment and started making music out of his bedroom.
He had already been making music and performing in Boston for years under the name Heath240, but he dove all in during the pandemic. After putting out music for a year, none of his songs had moved the needle.
“Then, I released a song called ‘Chirp’ onto Spotify, and it just shot through the roof,” Irish says. “It got maybe 170,000 plays in the first two months, and I was…
