A singer, songwriter, producer, and actor who was submitted as a first-round Grammy ballot artist and was accepted. She has a hearty discography, with eleven releases over a ten-year period, and is presently producing, writing, arranging, and recording her next album. She has been in Broadway and off-Broadway productions and is a SAG and AFTRA member, with a number of TV and film credits. She has toured through Europe and the Americas as well as in Japan.
“I do (write) all my songs by myself… I do use the guitar and piano to create music with… My process is I am constantly writing. I have a lot of sticky notes, a lot of notebooks, just multiplying little miracles, I call them.”
“I sleep with an old fashioned tape recorder because sometimes full melodies and full songs will come to me in the middle of the night while I’m sleeping, in a fog, and I will record it, half asleep, off key, and, wake up and I really don’t know what’s on there. It’s quite a wonderful surprise to hear what my subconscious produced for me overnight.”
“The quest for sonic greatness. I have to say that time is a great friend with that.”
“I do like to get as much influence as possible before I make a final decision on songs.”
“I love to surround myself with musicians, producers, engineers who I think are even better than me ‘cause I can learn from them. And, their influence and their comments are priceless. In this day and age in the music business, to stand out, you’ve got to be the cream. And I say that because cream rises to the top, so, it’s just so important to get that feedback from everyone, and not just mom and dad, or sister and brother, or your best friend. People who have done it. People who’ve been out there in the trenches. People who have won awards. People who have made their life on this. Those are the kind of people I seek out to give me feedback.”
“The pace of New York City drove me to (put out eleven releases in ten years). I felt the need to be in the studio every single weekend.”
“The Grammys are very careful about accepting work into the submission process. I think last year they rejected 300 Grammy submissions… I couldn’t believe I was on there with Beck… Paul McCartney, Melissa Etheridge, Lenny Kravitz.”
“When I got to New York it was sort of a melting pot of the hard driving rhythms of the city coupled with that down home New Orleans style. And so I think, those two styles, you can hear them in my music and that has become my niche.”
“If you’re living in New York City, you’ve got to be a triple-threat. You’ve got to be able to sing. You’ve got to be able to dance. You’ve got to be able to act… You’re living in an environment where, if you want to pay your rent, you’ve got to embrace all of it.”
"Burn"
"Wild Things"