Codie West — A Rising Artist That started at the Bottom

James Lee
3 min readMay 18, 2020

Codie West is an independent unsigned British artist from London UK currently residing in Spain. Over the course of his career Codie has tackled some major life challenges which has included homelessness at age 16 whilst also having an ongoing mental health issue called “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” which he was diagnosed in 2007.

In 2016 Codie was offered a major record deal which instructed him to remove all of his music from the online database, unfortunately this deal didn’t go through and Codie was left in a situation where he had to “start over” and rebrand himself with a new sound!

Codie quoted..

“There are many doors that open in the music industry and many doors that close, that’s just part of the journey! This will never stop me from pushing my way through to make my dream a reality”

Codie has a message to share with the world — having suffered with depression, anxiety, homelessness and mental health issues. Codie aims to relate to others that have had similar health & life experiences. He states, “its okay not to be okay and you are never alone”.

In 2017 Codie joined a band and appeared in the famous Tv show “The Xfactor”,the band made it to the Six Chair Challenge. After the show the band went their separate ways…

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James Lee

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