Backstory Part 2: The Bumpy Journey
Terrible, awful stage fright was hurtle #1. Doing anything else in music has been nothing but hurtles! After I started playing a few chords on guitar I started writing a few songs here and there. My family was going through a lot and it became a good outlet for me to get out whatever I was feeling. Some were ok, some were stupid, some were healing, and some were horrible- either way it was practice. I read and studied and talked to every musician I knew to show me new stu
Backstory Part 1: Music & Stage Fright
I think one of the main questions I get asked first by people is "Have you been singing your whole life?" or "Is this what you always wanted to do when you were little?" The answer is no and no. I didn't even know I could sing at all until I was in my mid-twenties. I couldn't play any instruments at all until a couple of years after that. Growing up both of my parents always sang, together and separate, we just never did very much. I remember when we were little 2 or 3 tim
Radio?!
A while back I was having a conversation with my friend and she was asking about how you get on the radio. I explained from what I understood its a big money pay to play game and as an indie artist your best bet is to set your sites on internet radio stations and other outlets, from what I read basically that mainstream radio was next to impossible without a label and lots of $$$. So I told her the direction I was more looking at [pitching my songs to other artists to recor
Behind the Song: Guns and Glitter
By now if you are reading this you have probably either heard this song or after reading this will go look it up. Its my first "official" single and it appears to point to a very specific demographic if you just look at the surface. As a songwriter sometimes what is written is perfectly true, sometimes they are totally made up, sometimes they are a mix between the 2. Sometimes when you have multiple writers on one song it is coming from all over the place and very differen
The night before . . .
So I'm sitting here trying to get everything sorted out for website, ads, download info, etc etc for the release of my very first single...Guns and Glitter- available now on on all major digital sites ... aaaahhhhh!!! lol sounds like a commercial right! As I do all of this I realize how many emotions go with this...its super scary, its exciting, its challenging, its very fun, its complicated, its confusing, its rewarding, its a lot! I don't think I realized how many emotion
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