San Diego area singer, songwriter, guitar player who is going into the studio in Los Angeles this coming weekend to record two new original songs. She performs regularly in southern California and has played at notable venues – such as The Belly Up – and events – such as the big music festival in San Diego called KABOO. She is a voting member of the Recording Academy and recorded multiple full-length albums in Nashville. She has been featured in Guitar Girl Magazine and her top five songs on Spotify alone – including a single that she released late last year – have a combined total of more than 130 thousand streams.
“When I have little ideas come or something, I'll just take anything, a napkin or whatever is handy, a receipt, and write down the little phrase that came to me… I never know if it’s going to turn into a song.”
“I actually grew up in a commune in Southern California… there were tons of very famous musicians and musical people. So, I was just exposed to amazing talent. And we were always doing performances.”
“When I started, it was very much of, my influences back then I think were Sinead O’Connor, and then Alanis Morissette, these ladies that were writing songs. And that's when I started.”
“I remember hearing an interview with Jewel, where she I think she kind of explained … of course you're influenced by music, but it's on accident. It's not like you're this person that's constantly seeking out. I feel like I have that in common with her, where it's more of coming this creative thing that you have to do.”
“I love producers that are creative and have that element to them because I write the song, but I love for a producer to take my song and hear something that I don't hear.”
“I'm definitely a performer and a ham at heart too. I’m definitely someone that loves to perform and write the songs, produce them, but then also in-person in a live atmosphere, I do love that too.”
“Usually when I write a song, I don't expect to write it. Like, I know that I want to express myself, but sometimes I'll do that, and no song will come and it's still a wonderful experience. I'm just playing my guitar and going through different chord progressions and experiencing that, but sometimes and usually when it's a song, it'll just write it. It literally will be one session of me an hour or so and by the end of it I have a song and it's just like writing itself. It's amazing.”
“I remember after a few years … there was a nagging, like, sadness because, ‘I'm not playing music, I'm not taking that time to just play my guitar, to sing, to just express myself’ and I realized that … this is just, I’m gonna have to make a priority for my well-being and started to make time to play again and then that's when songs started to come.”
“Having a gig it also makes me practice, makes me prepare and forces me to make that time to just find the time and play.”
“The more you're prepared, so, the more I know my songs and practice, when I'm in front of an audience the more I can let go. Let it happen. I'm not worried about is my finger going to reach that chord or am I getting sore or all of that. So, the more you’re prepared the more you can actually be in the moment.”
“The gigs that I play I make sure they know I'm playing original songs, and some places don't want that and I’ll be like, ‘I will play somewhere else,’ because this is for me too. You have to have joy in it too, it can’t only be for money… for me personally I have to also be getting some joy out of it as well.”
“Illusion”
“Talk to You”