Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who, in addition to a few singles, has released two EPs, and a full-length album, and another – a ten-song, live recording – is scheduled for release on September 18th. She is currently ranked #1 on ReverbNation for her genre in Austin. She has toured Europe and is playing extensively in Texas throughout this month before heading to shows in Arizona and California in early August. She talks about her years attending Berklee College of Music, transitioning from (losing her interest in) playing classical piano to becoming a guitarist.
“A lot of people don’t pick up a new thing because they’re just trying to predict the future, like, ‘Oh, well, it’ll take me forever.’ And it’s like, ‘Well, you don’t really know that.’ And I’m a one-day-at-a-time kind of person.”
“At its core (Berklee College of Music) is a jazz school, so it’s like, here I am a classical pianist trying to fit in at a jazz school and a lot of the teachers didn’t know what to tell me.”
“Probably about 95% of my songs, 90% of my songs, are written on the guitar and the rest are on the piano and that’s actually for a very specific reason, because my songs on the guitar tend to be a little bit groovier, whereas my songs on the piano are kind of like, if I’m looking to write a really pretty ballad or something, I’m not going to try and write that on the guitar. I’m going to write it on piano. And if I’m looking to write a groovy rock or groovy, like, whatever song that I want people to dance to, I’m going to write it on the guitar.”
“It’s good for a live recording to have more than one take – or for any recording really. But two takes is kind of pushing it – sometimes you want three or four.”
“I’m an extreme planner. If you see me do anything, it wasn’t random, I promise. And if it was random, you can really, really tell.”
“At the end of the day, we’re human! I’ve listened to Stevie Wonder’s live albums and heard questionable moments, and Stevie Wonder is an absolute genius and the pinnacle of musical performance and musical ability and he even has moments where you can definitely tell it’s live. It’s not like it sounds bad, but it’s definitely live. So, if he can deal with that and if he can sell that album with confidence, and he can be like, ‘Look, I’m giving this to you. This is who I am. This is how it sounded. We’re real people and this is what we do,’ then I can do it!”
“That’s the other thing about mistakes that, actually, playing and performing classical piano taught me. Classical piano is, like, the hardest music ever. And so, I would mess up so bad sometimes that I would forget the rest of the song and have to start over. And this was when I was a kid and this was in front of people.”
“I have a lot of experience messing up in front of people. That’s all I have to say.”
“It has to pay or it has to be really great exposure. And the whole exposure thing, you’ve really got to learn to navigate that because a lot of people like to throw that word around. And the saying is, ‘I can’t put exposure in the bank.’”
“I went to one Open Mic (in Germany) and that one Open Mic I met people that booked me an entire month.”
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