Los Angeles-based recording artist who has scored over 30 films and had over 100 songs placed in film and TV shows. A singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist, among her film scoring projects is “Maxine,” a just released Disney-plus film starring Margaret Cho. She is a voting member of the Recording Academy and a four-time Hollywood Music in Media Award Nominee. This past year, two of her film scores were presented at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Museum. She has her own recording studio, and her latest solo album is a nine-song release that came out on August 11th and is up for GRAMMY consideration for Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album.
“Once I got home, I started just tinkering around on the piano a little bit and it just poured out of me.”
“I try to just be very minimal in my beginning approach where I try not to overplay. I let my voice kind of take over at first, so it’s really like I’ll have some chords laid out or kind of come up with different variations before I even commit to anything, but just let my voice kind of go off and see where it goes.”
“This album started from a grieving point of losing my mom years ago. Ya’ know, kind of, when you lose someone, you go through this, every time something big happens in your life – or even the little things – you wonder what it would be like if they were there.”
“I had a bit of a health scare and when you’re in something like that, you don’t even have control necessarily of the outcome, but you have a control of your perspective.”
“I walked into a room of musicians who took the time to listen to my story and also put themselves in that vulnerable place, so it felt very magical to record with them.”
“I do think (that) being able to connect with musicians and fellow producers and artists is really great and inspiring too, so I have been in touch with various people who have projects out this year and it’s really fascinating to hear their music and hear their stories.”
“Years ago, I had a placement on the show ‘Dance Moms’ where a young dancer went out and danced to a song of mine and all of a sudden it was like, people were liking, I had this following that I didn’t purposely tap into.”
“I think you just continue to put stuff out there and hope that you’re reaching people and that there’s something that they’re engaged with or that they want to continue to engage with you because there’s something there that continues to pull them in.”
“For my own happiness, I just really feel like I just gotta keep being authentic to myself and putting out music that I love.”
“With film projects and TV projects it’s a very fast-moving world, like there’s always these deadlines that are really tough. And because of that, the opportunity when you make your (own) album, you have a bigger window to explore, I feel, ‘cause you have more time and you’re not following someone else’s vision, you’re kind of doing your own thing.”
“Writing a song for television or film is different, like there’s certain elements that you need to support motion in film. And there’s certain lyrics that, you can’t be too specific because if you’re so specific in your lyric writing, then it won’t fit as many scenes.”
“Earth”
“And Love”