“AI has definitely changed my life,” Lucas Horn told Sky News. “When I play my music, the words I know mean so much to me, so I'm happy.
Lucas was 17 years old without warning in December 2016, but he suffered from large, traumatic bleeding throughout his brain.
He didn't wake up almost four months later.
Without realizing it, he had a defective blood vessel known as the AVM (artery malformation), a ruptured time bomb, and the next three years of his life spent recovering in a nursing home.
Lucas spent almost four months in coma after suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage in 2016. PIC: FanVue WorldAI Creator Awards
He couldn't walk and had trouble speaking. Writing down his thoughts, almost like a diary, was something he wanted to do from a very early stage.
“In my age of care homework, when I couldn't express myself very well, I still can't — but I could write about it, it was an outlet for me,” he says. “I've been writing since I woke up…but I couldn't record anything for so long.”
Lucas, now 26, has worked for years in his physical recovery and speech. However, when he finally managed to physically record songs he had written himself, he was frustrated with the way his voice changed.
“It never asked how I had [it in] My head,” he says.
And he relied on AI (Artificial Intelligence). Now known as BTO Kid, Lucas is one of 15 creators from around the world, a finalist from over 500 entries, celebrating the artificial intelligence of music with his first future sound award.
DJ David Guetta is one of the most well-known artists who embraced AI. Photo: Christophe Reichwein/Picture Alliance/DPA/AP July 2025
Will.i.am, David Guetta, Grimes, Timbaland, and more Paul McCartney Sir Employing certain aspects of AI could be a controversial subject of the creative industry. Many concerns have been raised about issues such as copyright, human exchange, fakes, and regulations.
This was one of the issues behind the 2023 Hollywood actors and writers strike. Finished in June after almost a year of industrial action.
Despite criticism, AI does not disappear. Last year was a “breakout” year for music technology, according to International Music Summit's latest annual business report. 60 million users use AI software.
Lucas says it's a perfect example of how he can use technology.
“I was able to use AI to express my feelings,” he says. “It was a big thing I was creating [music] Something I'm proud of. I can see the discussion [against it]but from my view, I know that ai helped me to make things I couldn't do before. i haven't Adelebut I can make something I'm proud of, and it represents my view of what happened to me. ”
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“AI is lowering the barriers.”
BTO stands for Beat the Odds, and his finalist track is entitled AI Divid Me A Voice. “I pinch myself every day because this is not true” is the opening line. He says it reflects how far he has come from the moment he wakes up and discovers what happened.
“It comes from reality. There are moments when I think that so much has happened that it shouldn't be true… Every line means something to me.”
Lucas, who lives in Nottingham, created the tracks using the AI-powered music production platform Twoshot.
“I think we'll get more and more people like me who couldn't record music and were given a voice through AI,” he says. “AI is lowering the barriers to getting into a lot of stuff,” he admits that this could be negative and positive. “We need to see where it goes.”
Garis has been finalised for future sound awards with 15 music creators. Photo: FanVue World AI Creator Awards
The Future Sound Awards, launched by the Fanvue World AI Creator Awards, aims to highlight the ethical use of AI in music, organizers say. FanVue is a subscription creator platform with over 180,000 users.
Approximately 15 artists from the US, Europe, Australia, Asia and the UK have been finalised for the award, with recipients being announced later in September.
Lucas is one of two British creators on the list alongside Garis from Essex. The 31-year-old, after joining urban boy band Me Meser about 10 years ago, dipped his toes into the waters of the music industry about 10 years ago, but the industry says it's difficult and “it's all too much.”
He is now a tattoo artist and a great painter, but he continues to write his song and began experimenting with AI music production tools about 18 months ago.
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As an artist, he says he had his own concerns about AI, especially after image generators began to become prominent online.
“It was stealing the work I was doing,” the way he explains his initial feelings. “But I ended up getting on board with it. Personally for me, it was very inspirational. It made me faster what I was doing, it made me more creative. And I think it's the same as music.
However, he says he agrees with criticism of ethics about how AI models are trained – used without consent following the controversy over work by human music artists and authors. “And impersonating someone else as accurately and using someone else's voice, I disagree with that at all,” he adds.
The Chiropractor, a finalist song for Garis, traded the community of creators he met when he moved to AI, from “Friendly Competition.” The genre is Trinibad, he says it's not enough for “in the AI world” and the track is designed to make people dance.
“I'm primarily obsessed with urban music, but I like to write in a variety of styles,” he says. “I've done house songs, I did British drill songs, Afrobeat, Amapiano. I'm a guy with a bit of a vibe, so when it makes me dance, move, smile, I really enjoy it.”
Narcis Marincat, head of AI at Fanview, says the story behind the selected song shows the “richness and human emotions” that he appealed to him and other judges.
“The impact of AI on music continues to divide opinions,” he says. “But for the first time, via future sound awards, we can present a different perspective on the positive impact of AI in music. It reveals the real people behind technology and shares their stories and music.”
