15-year old NYC-based singer/songwriter who two months ago released an EP that was recorded in Nashville. She has written over 80 songs and, in her young career, has already performed at notable venues The Bitter End (NY), Bluebird Café (Nashville), and House of Blues (New Orleans). She has already gotten national and international radio airplay and her songs have been used in network TV shows and in national advertising campaigns. She also talks about attending an online academy while doing music.
“If you really love the song you should put it out and just do it how you want to do it because the whole thing now is, like, genres are kind of being mixed and there’s pop and country and they’re kind of mixing together and rock is now country. It’s like just do your thing and whatever category it falls into, whoever likes it, ya’ know, you hope that everyone likes it but if they don’t then just put out another one. But you love that song and you want everyone to hear it, so you just put it out.”
“Everyone says that my songs are kind of ahead of my time, not inappropriate, but just, things that I may not have experienced, but I also kind of have events from other people’s lives that I sometimes put into songs.”
“I did some recording around (New York) city, but here it was more pop… and I did some of that, but again, pop wasn’t my thing. So, I thought, country, why not do something in Nashville because that’s, like, the heart of country music. I have a little demo studio thing at my house and sometimes I do vocals on there and I (email) them down to my producer in Nashville and he’ll create a track around it, but I do all the guitars… and then I go down there to do the finishing touches.”
“I always bring my guitar with me, even if I know that it’s definitely going to be a vacation because, who knows, (Ireland and Barbados) were both vacations and then I got to play live at both.”
“Sometimes I forget I’m 15 and sometimes I play live in places that I’m not even allowed in.”
“I started writing songs when I was about eight years old. I had seen the Hannah Montana movie and I fell in love with it, especially the song Butterfly Fly Away and one day I just kind of picked up the little toy guitar that’s on the guitar rack in my house and I taught myself a few chords just to that song and I played it for, like, 13 hours that day and then I finally got it and then I just wanted to learn more and I just kept teaching myself different chords and everything, and I’ve never used a guitar teacher.”
"Rearview Mirror"
"Forget Your Name"