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who have unexpectedly captivating hobbies, illuminating the incredible synergies between career and hobby, and how they can inform and elevate one another.The son of a jazz musician and dancer, Bojan Vejin grew up immersed in the arts. Even though he fled Bosnia at the age of eight and sought refuge in Canada, he never left that creative world behind. Little did he know he would continue down a successful path of artistic expression, one that would lead him jet setting across oceans once again.
Barbering gave him the flexibility to take on music opportunities when they came up. Vejin was soon travelling to Montreal, New York City and New Orleans for DJ gigs, and began producing music for high-profile artists."I wanted to know a decent amount of skills in order to be able to run a record label one day," he explains. In 2011, he founded his own label, Mad Kids Records.
After opening a show for an up-and-coming star, he invited the rapper to drop by his Toronto barbershop, which led to a spate of publicity and new connections."I started bringing in names that were just about to blow up on the international scene," he says. Soon, the shop's fortunes soared.It wasn't long before his extensive network paid off. A Milan barber just happened to call the Toronto shop Vejin had just left, looking for a job in Canada.
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