A singer, songwriter, guitar player who is also part of an all-female Aerosmith tribute band. She has toured Australia, Japan and beyond, and has gotten accolades from the likes of Guitar Player Magazine, American Songwriter Magazine, Guitar World, and Vintage Guitar Magazine. She is having success with both video and audio streaming to the tune of over 1.2 million video views on her YouTube channel and more than 13,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, plus, her songs have been featured in numerous films and hit TV shows. In addition, one of her albums charted on Billboard. She is also a published author and has even done backing vocals for Neil Young AND was a featured singer for Paul Williams. She and has a new album coming in the fall, which is being produced by a four-time GRAMMY Award-winning engineer and producer.
“You really have to be brave to be making a life in music or even just to perform even if it's not your livelihood, it just takes a lot… It’s not easy.”
“It takes a lot of chutzpah to kind of go from challenge to challenge without becoming bitter over the years, which I have seen, and I really resist in every way I possibly can.”
“Really my goal originally when I was young was just to be like Jimmy Page, to be a guitar player, a lead guitar player, and then I moved to Los Angeles and a lot of things changed and evolved and I became a singer songwriter who happens to play lead guitar.”
“I get more gigs – gig opportunities – from fellow musicians at my level than I do from other people who you would think that you should be asking, like promoters.”
“I spent probably thousands of hours learning all of those guitar parts and guitar solos note for note.”
“I'm just finishing up recording my fifth record right now and that's my number one priority with my original music before touring.”
“I've always been very active in building my audience online. I've had much more success with that than in some other areas.”
“What I realized very early on, actually with the release of my first record, is that I could earn more money licensing my music to television shows than I could by touring and selling CDs independently.”
“I feel like video enables me to reach so many more people in all areas of the world even if I can’t get out there right away. And I want to focus on it even more. I think it’s really powerful.”
“As a staunch feminist and as somebody who grew up wanting to just be seen as a guitar player, not a girl guitar player, and someone who has encountered her fair amount of, ‘Oh what kind of strings does your boyfriend play’ when I walk into Guitar Center – not anymore – I really, the whole ‘Guitar for Girls’ makes me, whatever.”
“Perfectionism is one of the most deadly vices, I will say, or characteristics you could have as a musician or anybody creative, perfectionism is absolutely crippling and I consider myself a recovering perfectionist… and working on it.”
“You have to be willing to suck, and then you’ll get good.”
“Brave”
“Shut Your Mouth and DO Something”