Singer, songwriter, guitar player, and producer. Performing under the artist name Osmunda Music, she just released a new single less than three weeks ago, having put out three new songs since April 25th now, in the leadup to an August 15th EP. Her influences and the music she releases have been described as spanning numerous genres and her original music has been submitted for several GRAMMY nominations. She is also a founding member and the lead singer of the band Space Babies, and in 2010 opened Earthstar Creation Center, a recording studio in Venice, California. More recently, along with two other artists, she established the nonprofit Pandion Music Foundation in 2022, to help independent music creators further their careers with free weekly online music industry workshops and a monthly newsletter.
“I just love that I'm able to share in words and in voice that reminder that we have one life to live and one life to experience together. And let's, you know, what are we waiting for?”
“I've always loved Patti Smith, and this song has always just been such a diamond in her collection, and I thought, oh yeah, why not? I've covered a Bob Dylan song, and I've covered some other great songs. I was like, why don't I do this? So, I gave it a shot. I learned it on the guitar and then I took it to my friend in Nevada City, and we did this together.”
“We literally got picked up – I mean, this is such a California story – got picked up at LAX in a convertible Porsche from, like, this surfer dude who lives in Manhattan Beach and took me up to Big Bear – I didn't know this person – and Lake Havasu and that's where I hung out for two weeks, getting burned in the sun and being on the lake and when I saw that California, Manhattan Beach, that was it for me … there was this something inside of me that … I … immediately fell in love.”
“I worked for Chuck Jones’s family. He’s the great animator who does Looney Tunes… I worked in their art department and eventually got hired with Warner Brothers in Burbank.”
“I think that allowed me to get ready to start writing my music, by the influence and what I'd seen, all the people that I was influenced by who was doing music in L.A. along the way. All the time that I was in L.A. I was around musicians and singing and … just doing music jams with them and I would either follow a band or be in a band.”
“When songwriting’s happening, it's the inspiration. So, what is inspiring you? Is it the grand view? Is it something that is happening in the world? I prefer to write about things that matter.”
“I prefer to write about things that are either inspiring or that can move myself, maybe move humanity, get right to the heart of it all.”
“When lockdown hit, luckily, I had already started studying music production on my own and learning Ableton and had my own DAW and my own setup. So, by the time COVID hit, I was able to just do a whole album on my own and just have somebody help me mix it and maybe tweak a few bits.”
“On lockdown I learned how to co-write on Zoom. There's some producers I've worked with that I've never actually physically met, and it's been pretty amazing because I feel like I know them. I see their face and everything, but I've never actually physically met them. There's at least three producers like that; one in Sweden, one in Oregon, and one in Minnesota.”
“Anybody who has lost their studio or doesn't have the means to record because of the fires – Altadena or Palisades or any fire that happened around that time – is able to use our studio for free.”
“Spread the Love Around”
“New Light”