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A singer/songwriter who has just put out a new two-track release after having released two singles in the second half of last year, plus she is releasing a new album real soon. Based in the Los Angeles area, she has also launched her own record label. Soon after moving to L.A. after college she landed a blind audition on season three of NBC’s “The Voice.” She is also fierce advocate for female empowerment and is both a martial arts instructor and a surfer. In the case of the latter, it’s fitting to mention that she calls her genre of music Mermaid Pop.

Notable Guest Quotes

"Life is an ever-changing opportunity to fall in love with the sandpaper, the spiritual sandpaper that circumstances in life present."

(her producer, Drew Kapner) "is really incredibly talented at finding his way into the brain and heart and body and soul of an artist and pulling out the specific and unique qualities to an artist's sonic palette."

"He and I have a mantra that we live and breathe, (which) is we're here to service the song."

"I just happen to have human legs, but I identify as a mermaid more than I do with anything."

"We have coined the term 'affirmation pop' ... creating music that has people in their vision, in their purpose ... There's a language being used in the music that will have people shifted... acting from vision and responsibility versus anything other than that."

"I believe that in today's world we don't have to give up our voice in order to create the vision or the reality that we want."

"One of my intentions is to leave people with more of them than with more of me."

"As an artist we tend to wear our insides on our outsides with the art that we create."

"I'm constantly in the chase of creating new art and new value."

"For about ten years I sang blues music in clubs.  I toured the Midwest.  I toured all over California."

"It was really 'The Voice' audition that catapulted me into going, 'Okay, well what's my sound?  What do I want to write about?  What's true to me?'  And it isn't that I hadn't written songs before.  But it was just so different what was actually coming up and out and through me."

Songs on this episode

"Messy"
"Northstar"