Music director and producer, recording and performing artist, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who has a new EP coming out this Friday, January 19th. She is also part of a duo act and the co-founder of Minx & Maestro Productions, which she talks about here. In addition, she has held the position of Specialist of Vocal Casting and Music Production with Royal Caribbean Entertainment after music and vocal directing for them for almost nine years. She is also the creator of The Journey: A New Indie Musical, and has been an active performer in bands, piano bar, and theater for over 20 years. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Vocal Performance from Berklee College of Music and a Master’s Degree in Music Production from Berklee Online, having graduated with a 4.0 GPA. She was the recipient of the award for Outstanding Graduate Student of the Class of 2022, as well as the iZotope Award, which honors innovation in music production.
“Sometimes we’re curious about things, sometimes we’re naïve about things and we seek situations of maybe a little bit of danger, right, and that’s sort of what my first 15 years of adulthood looked like.”
“I wanted, like, a distorted electric guitar, very Pink Floyd-like, and I just wasn’t finding the sound that I wanted. I just couldn’t find that expression that I was looking for. And wind instruments tend to have a little bit more of a singer expression to them because of the bends and because you’re using your breath to make the sound. So, my amazing partner… put down a bamboo flute line that I then… warped the sound and put all sorts of delay and distortion and saturation on it… and it definitely sounds well more like an electric guitar than ever a bamboo flute.”
“I really enjoy playing with soundwaves and the structure of sound and saturation and just really taking it and sculpting into new and interesting sounds I’ve not heard before.”
“The reason I went into the music production program (at Berklee) – while I do love producing other artists these days – …was so that I could be liberated from any constraints in producing my own material.”
“I transferred to Berklee and my whole world changed.”
“I knew I didn’t want to be a classical singer for the rest of my life. I loved singing that way, but I had something to say, I had something in my soul, I didn’t know what it was yet, but I had it and I had to find the voice to get that across.”
“There are so many gatekeepers in this industry, and I find that it’s those who are willing to share that are even more excited about what they’re even doing.”
“I married a man who was a boxer/tortured artist. His art was the most beautiful part about him, but it was also quite dark… And I was his muse, artistically. He was my muse, musically. And that is a dangerous combination.”
“A lot of songwriters write massive amounts of material all the time. I write a lot, but I very much am slower in crafting my songs. I have to go through the whole experience first before I can really sit down and look at it and craft a piece of work.”
“When it comes to producing, which is really my true love, I had no idea that this was going to be the medium that I really felt most comfortable and most at home and adept at. It incorporates all of it. It incorporates my vocal coaching as I’m producing other singers. It incorporates my musicianship, my direction, my sound work, it incorporates everything and I really, really truly love it.”
“Pandora”
“Brick by Brick”