In the last seven months this Austin, Texas-based singer, songwriter, guitar player shared the stage with Peter Frampton and Billy Gibbons at the Winter NAMM Show, released her first album, and had three performances at South by Southwest. She has two songs on Spotify with well over one million streams each. She has been touring the U.S. extensively.
"It was one of those crazy, dreamlike experiences. I don't think I'll ever forget what it looked like to just see Peter Frampton right next to me and then Billy Gibbons a couple feet away."
"I studied Motown arrangements and then realized how quickly the hooks come in. And how, in Motown it's like, the first 20 seconds, there's the hook. They grab you right off the bat."
"I got really into audio engineering... I was like, 'Okay, I'm going to see how far I can go into this,' because there's just limitless possibilities in terms of sound and texture. So I pretty much learned all the mics I wanted to use and their frequency responses. And then I was like, 'Maybe I should make my own mics. ' So I learned how to solder and I made my own mic... It was a deep, deep rabbit hole of pre-production."
"I love to play really hard, distorted, fuzzed out guitar. But I also like to sing a certain way that's, I guess, hopefully pleasing to the ear. So it's like a juxtaposition thing. Like, I'm kind of obsessed with that whole idea."
"With my music there's such a line. It can go one way or the other very easily. And so, I didn't want to cross over to the line of polished pop, because then it sounds kind of dated."
"I'll be brutally honest with you. A lot of people expect to go (to South By Southwest), perform, and get signed, or get a management deal or something like that. And the truth is, that just doesn't happen that way anymore. But what you do learn from it, you get that grit. You go and you experience a really tough time. So it hardens you. It makes your skin thicker."
"When I first started out I was just so shy, I think, because I was kind of terrified of showing the vulnerable side of me. But then over the years I kind of realized, oh there's power in that, 'cause people can relate to it."
"Playing on-stage is really the only place that I feel very much at home."
"There's a part of me that, it's like, 'Why aren't more women represented in this genre?' But then that kind of just fuels my fire to be better than the boys and stand out above 'em instead of competing with them, or join forces, like, let's be equal."
"In my head I can hear my teeth, I use my teeth to play drums basically. And then I'll write the beat with my teeth. So, the back of my two front teeth is the kick drum and when I bit down is the snare. So I'll make the beat in my head and then think of a little riff and I'll just write that way."
"Heat of the Moment"
"Holy Roller"
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