⏳ Suno's biggest persona update just landed

This week, I'm sharing a personal update about my interview with China Styles finally going live. Plus, a prompt to help you break free from phone distractions this holiday season and Suno's new Voice Personas feature that lets you keep the same singer across any genre.

I Interviewed the faceless AI artist who signed with a major label — here's her full story:

→ Watch the interview here.

China Styles spent 20 years as a nail tech before discovering Suno. She'd never written a song in her life, but she had decades of diary entries about being bullied, growing up as the only Black child in a white family, and fighting for self-worth without her mother's protection.

She fed those raw words into ChatGPT for lyrics, then used Suno to create the music. The first time she heard "Black Sheep Turned Goat" play back, she cried. So did thousands of strangers who said she'd put their pain into a song.

22 million streams later, six labels came calling, including Sony. She signed with Hallwood Media. She's still faceless, still working from Mississippi, and she used her first music check to help pay off the house she bought after leaving a trailer.

This interview is about what happens when your life experience becomes the raw material and AI becomes the instrument you never learned to play.

→ Watch the interview here.

Now, let’s cut to the chase:

This week in the AI Musicpreneur: ↓

✍🏼 AI MUSIC PROMOTION CORNER:

A ChatGPT prompt that analyzes your phone habits against your music goals and builds a personalized schedule to reclaim creative time.

🛠️ AI MUSIC PRODUCTION CORNER:

Suno's Voice Personas v5 update lets you lock in a specific AI singer and use them across any genre.

📰 And the latest news shaking up the music tech world.

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Break free from your phone this holiday season

The biggest obstacle to creativity isn't lack of talent, it's distraction.

Most music artists don't realize how much their phone habits sabotage their creative goals. Whether you're trying to write songs weekly or finish that album, your screen time is likely working against you.

What if you could see exactly how your phone usage blocks your music progress and get a personalized plan to fix it?

This prompt analyzes your daily phone time against your specific music goals. It delivers targeted strategies to reclaim your creative hours.

Here's how it works:

1. Define your music goal

2. Input your daily phone usage

3. Receive customized analysis based on your hours

4. Get a step-by-step reduction plan

5. Follow your personalized daily schedule

You are a productivity advisor specialized in digital wellness for music professionals.

INPUTS
1) Artist goal (required): <e.g., write 1 song/week, finish album in 3 months, shoot 5 videos in 1 week>
2) Average daily phone usage (required, hours): <number>

TASK
Analyze how the current daily phone usage affects the stated goal.
Then provide exact, goal-first recommendations to hit the goal.

PHONE USAGE GUIDANCE (use the matching band)
- 5+ hours/day: Treat as high distraction risk. Focus on reducing usage and protecting deep work.
- 3–5 hours/day: Treat as moderate-to-high drag on progress. Reclaim time and reduce context switching.
- 1–3 hours/day: Treat as moderate usage. Optimize for focus and intentional use.

OUTPUT REQUIREMENTS
1) Goal summary (1–2 lines)
- Restate the goal in concrete terms and timeframe.

2) Impact analysis (specific to the goal)
- Explain how the current phone usage likely affects the goal (time loss, attention residue, creative interruption).
- Quantify time reclaimed if phone use drops by 30%, 50%, and 70% (in minutes/day and hours/week).

3) Recommendations (goal-first, practical)
- Give 6–10 actions total.
- For each action include:
  - What to do
  - When to do it
  - Why it helps this goal
  - Difficulty (Low/Medium/High)

4) Step-by-step routine (implementation plan)
- A 7-day plan with daily steps.
- Include setup steps (screen settings, app limits, notification rules, workspace rules).
- Include 2 fallback rules for “bad days” so progress still happens.

5) Daily schedule (non-overlapping, time-blocked)
- Provide a sample weekday schedule with exact times.
- Must include:
  - At least 1 deep work block for the goal (60–120 minutes)
  - A separate admin/social block (15–45 minutes)
  - Phone-free rules for the deep work block (where phone is, what is allowed)
- Ensure phone use is assigned to specific windows and does not overlap with the goal work.

CONSTRAINTS
- Be specific and realistic. No generic advice.
- Do not assume the user’s wake/sleep times. If not provided, use a reasonable default (wake 08:00, sleep 23:00) and state you assumed it.
- If the goal implies a deadline (e.g., “in 3 months”), reflect that urgency in the plan.
- Write in clear, simple language. Use bullets where helpful.

Now proceed using the inputs.

Take a deep breath and work step by step internally, but only show the final output.

Ever created the perfect AI singer on Suno, only to lose that voice on your next track?

The old Personas feature bundled voice and style together, so your country vocalist brought twangy guitars everywhere they went.

Sound familiar? You're not alone in this struggle.

That's where Suno's new Voice Personas comes into play.

Here's why you need it:

1. Voice Independence:
↳ Lock in a specific voice separate from musical style
↳ Move your singer across genres without instrumental baggage

2. Album Consistency:
↳ Create 10 tracks that sound like the same performer
↳ Go from piano ballad to rock finale with one vocalist

3. Stem Separation:
↳ Isolates vocals from your original track
↳ Select 15-30 seconds of clean singing to define your persona

4. Style Flexibility:
↳ Keep legacy Personas for full style matching
↳ Switch between vocal-only and style modes anytime

Note: Voice Personas is still in beta. Some users report audio artifacts like pops and clicks, so results may vary while Suno refines the feature.

Worth experimenting with if vocal consistency matters to your projects.

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WRAP UP

We’re at the end!

"This is my house. I have to defend it." - Kevin McCallister. Home Alone.

He stakes out rooms, rigs traps, and proclaims territory as the burglars close in. The everyday kid-hero swagger turns into a full-blown home-improvement action beat.

Defend your creative space this holiday season. Set the traps. Protect your time.

Always rooting for you,

-Chris (The AI Musicpreneur)

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