She is an award-winning singer, songwriter, and ukulele player who has graced the cover of Ukulele Magazine twice. Her songs have seen both television and movie placements. She has performed internationally and has even opened for Jackson Browne, plus she teaches workshops for ukulele festivals and songwriting festivals. She appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, has ten albums under her belt, and her YouTube videos have a combined total of over 600,000 views.
“I do like working with projects because it kind of, it gives me a springboard or, because, when you think of songwriting and what you could write a song about, you could write a song about anything, and there are unlimited ideas, so, it gave me a little direction as far as ‘What am I writing about’.”
“I attended the Berklee College of Music when I was a senior in high school. When most kids had already figured out where they were going to go to school, I had just returned from a year abroad in France.”
“I was playing the electric guitar. I had pink hair and was recording an album called Victoria and the Ultra Pink Bicycle Incident. And, with the band we were driving from Boston to Green Bay to record my first CD.”
“(being on the cover of Ukulele Magazine) is huge. It makes me feel really good about what I’m doing. And I guess ultimately, I love making music, I love making up songs, and to be known even if only in the ukulele world as a songwriter who is taking this instrument and doing just some cool stuff with it…”
“I have a degree in songwriting from Berklee… While I was at Berklee I was writing from a very emotional part… it was my therapy… It was very emotionally driven songs.”
“I think the self-critic voice is very loud, and when you’re a creator, when you’re the player, when it’s you and it’s your own voice in your head telling you it’s dumb, it’s a bad idea, if I can be that voice of reason… (at her workshops)”
“I’ve written songs on water glasses. I was doing dishes and I hit a spoon to a glass accidentally and it made a ‘DING,’ and I was like, ‘Oh, let me get some more glasses, fill ‘em up with water.’ And I could write a song with glasses. I’ve written a song on the steering wheel just tapping out a little rhythm. And so, you really don’t have to play an instrument at all.”
“I did some touring in Europe and there was, it was called an Acoustic Guitar Meeting, in Sarzana, Italy – La Spezia – and… I was also invited to perform on the main stage and I opened for Jackson Browne in this, like, amazing, like, fortress, uh, castle, it was kind of like this open courtyard. The walls of this castle were still there.”
“When you’re a performer all the time, it’s like our drug of choice – attention!”
“Color of Lying”
“Floating on Fruit”