L.A.-based alternative pop singer songwriter who just released a music video for her single that came out last December. She has close to 70 thousand followers across Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok, and her top five songs on Spotify alone have gotten more than 180 thousand streams. Originally from Minneapolis, where she recorded and released four albums, since moving to Los Angeles seven years ago she has performed at notable venues on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, the Whisky-A-Go-Go and The Rainbow. She is signed to Borderline Music and has more projects in the works, which she talks about during this interview.
“I've never drank alcohol and when I came (to Los Angeles), I mean people drink in Minnesota, but here it's almost like a cultural thing. And everybody was always drinking around me and using substances. And so, I wrote this song kind of about that and about navigating my sobriety in this, sometimes, substance-driven town.”
“My entire life from – as far as I know, when I was a baby – I would murmur notes, I would start singing. And my family would be like, ‘Oh my gosh, she's singing as a baby. She's going to be a singer.’ And I started singing in choir at church. I started singing in choir at school. I loved it. I loved to sing. As soon as I could pick up a pen, basically, I was writing songs like full songs – verses, choruses, bridges.”
“I love theater, and I love performing and memorizing lines and all that. There was just something so cool and personal about sharing my life through music and through words. And it just felt a lot more intimate than reading lines of somebody else's or playing a character of somebody else. It was me and it was my stories and my lyrics.”
“There's something really special to say about the way me and my producer connect and we've had similar life experiences and things that have happened that we can write about and be really raw about.”
“I started doing like the very slow core sad core at the very beginning of my career. And that's when I was going through a lot of personal issues and I just found that the music to be slower and sadder kind of fit what was going on in my life at the moment.”
“Every album reflects what I was actually going through at the time. So you'll hear differences sonically and lyrically as well. But I feel like my sound kind of just evolved also through moving to L.A. and kind of hearing what people were doing here.”
“(In Los Angeles) I feel like, sonically, my music fits in a lot better. And I just feel very inspired living here knowing that everyone here is doing something different. I’m constantly networking, constantly meeting people, other singers, instrumentalists, it's just such a different vibe that Minneapolis was – not hating on it, again, love Minnesota – but it is totally a different place with different music, different people. Just everything is different, in the best way.”
“We did a full show at Whisky-A-Go-Go and it was amazing. It was so fun. I felt so immersed in L.A. before I officially moved here. And then Rainbow, I performed at a few years later. And I actually had a full band for that one … That one, I also had a live violinist. So that was probably one of my favorite shows that I played out here.”
“I've struggled with depression and anxiety my entire life. So, I know so many other people that struggle with it. And so, I hope that my music can bring solace and comfort to those that also struggle with it.”
“White Lines”
“Pink Bars”