Lyft Is Out Here Helping Creators Thrive

Lyft is out here doing great things to support the creative culture in Atlanta. The company obviously has an understanding of who their ideal driver is, what they do, and the goals of many of their drivers in the Atlanta area. The ridesharing organization decided they would open a music recording studio for its Atlanta drivers, inside their main office off of Howell Mill Road in northwest Atlanta.

Sam Bond, General Manager of Lyft in the Southeast, told The Atlanta Journal Constitution, that there are a lot of artists within the driver community in Atlanta who are earning extra money as Lyft drivers to pay for studio time. The team over at Lyft started working on ideas of how they could best help some of their drivers. The Atlanta team found out that Lyft in Detroit started renting out studio time for their drivers; the southeast team decided to “one-up” the Detroit location.

Lyft Atlanta decided to open the first, dedicated recording studio that would be free for drivers to use. The studio is pretty simple; they installed a microphone and an iPad in a soundproof room. The company said that in about a month, about 20 of their drivers have put the Lyft studio to good use.

Recently, Lyft decided to contact drivers to perform at the official studio launch party and they received over 100 demos; most of which were hip hop artists. At the Lyft launch party, Yung Joc performed along with a few of the selected Lyft drivers that submitted demos.

Lyft has assured drivers that even though they record music in Lyft production studios, they will own all of their music and content. Sam Bond stated that, “this is for artists, who in many cases, need a shot,” Bond went on to say, “we don’t see this ending on the ground here in Atlanta.“

Other Lyft locations across the country are now looking into similar models for their cities. This is a great example of companies who hear, understand, and are concerned with the lives of their employees – outside of work; and are here to assist them with their dreams. Great job Lyft!