1. In case your songs might take listeners on a journey, what sort of journey would you need it to be?
If my songs might take listeners on a journey, I’d need it to be a journey of liberation, one the place they shed the burden of who they have been instructed to be and to reconnect with who they really are. It’s about breaking free from previous constraints, limitations, and embracing sensitivity as power, and realizing that our vulnerability is definitely our tremendous energy. I need listeners to really feel seen, understood and to really feel much less alone, and to stroll away with the braveness to face their fears and chase their goals. My music is a name to resilience and unity, a reminder that we rise collectively, and that there’s triumph in authenticity.
2. How do on a regular basis conversations or moments encourage strains or melodies in your songs?
On a regular basis conversations and moments are like little sparks, they usually gentle the way in which to a melody, a lyric, however extra importantly to a tune. As a mom of two, quite a lot of my inspiration comes from moments with my kids. They remind me of the sort of world I need to assist form, and that naturally flows into my music. Typically it’s a quiet second from my previous, or one thing I see us going by collectively. For instance, throughout the top of COVID, I wrote a tune known as Triumphant (tune produced by Lynx), I needed to convey peace and luxury to others throughout such unsure occasions. My songs usually come from real-life emotions and shared human experiences, they’re a mirrored image of life, love, wrestle, and hope.
3. When creating a brand new tune, do you think about a selected particular person or viewers whereas writing?
After I’m creating a brand new tune, I usually think about that I’m chatting with my youthful self, providing her the phrases, consolation, and power she wanted to listen to. It’s a approach of bringing therapeutic to the previous, not only for me, however hopefully for others who want it too. I additionally take into consideration my kids and the world they’re rising up in. Typically I write with them in thoughts, hoping to depart behind messages of resilience, love, hope and self-acceptance. And at different occasions, I really feel like I’m writing to anybody who wants a reminder that they’re not alone and that they’ve the facility to beat and be totally themselves.
4. Have you ever ever reworked a destructive expertise right into a optimistic musical message? How?
Sure, completely. Music has at all times been my approach of turning ache into goal. I wrote a tune known as Really feel (tune produced by Lynx), throughout a time when sure influences in my life have been attempting to convey me down and steer me away from my true path. As a substitute of letting it break me, I used that have to write down a message of empowerment. It was my approach of reclaiming my voice and inspiring others to do the identical.
One other instance is a tune I wrote throughout the pandemic known as Triumphant (tune produced by Lynx). It was such a troublesome time for everybody, personally, professionally, emotionally, and that tune helped me course of every thing I used to be going by. I needed to create one thing that reminded individuals (and myself) that even within the darkest moments, there’s nonetheless hope, resilience, and light-weight on the opposite aspect.
5. Is there a selected instrument or sound that not too long ago caught your consideration and influenced your music?
Recently, I’ve been actually drawn to cinematic sounds, ambient textures, and refined strings that convey a deep emotional ambiance to the music. On the identical time, I really like mixing genres and eras. I’ve been exploring reggae upbeat tempos and rhythms combined with pop, and I’m at all times on the lookout for methods to mix the soul and storytelling of 90s music with at present’s trendy sound. I’ve been listening to quite a lot of Michael Jackson currently, his musicality, rhythm, and emotional depth are extremely inspiring. And I at all times keep true to my core influences: Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, and Whitney Houston. Their vocal energy and emotional storytelling are on the coronary heart of what I do, and I attempt to carry that spirit into every thing I create.
6. How do you determine which private tales to share in your music and which to maintain personal?
I observe my coronary heart. If a narrative appears like it may well assist another person heal, really feel seen, heard or really feel much less alone, then I share it. I consider that there’s power in vulnerability, and among the most private moments carry essentially the most common reality. However I additionally consider in defending sure components of my life and my journey, some tales are nonetheless unfolding, and I honor the timing of when or in the event that they must be instructed and/or shared.
7. In the event you might collaborate with an artist from any style or period, who would it not be and why?
If I might collaborate with any artist, it might be somebody like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, or Celine Dion. I grew up listening to them, and so they actually formed who I’m as an artist. Their voices have been highly effective, but it surely was extra than simply vocal capacity, it was the honesty, emotion, and depth they introduced to each tune. They have been real, true, and actual. Their music moved individuals, and that’s the sort of affect I attempt for in my very own work. A collaboration with any of them could be a full-circle second for me.
- E-mail: neill@outloudculture.com
