A singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who recently gave a TedX talk and has some songs coming out this summer, with hopes of doing some touring. She has over 30,000 monthly Spotify followers and one of her songs has been streamed over four million times. In addition, she has over a million views on her YouTube videos. Based in Los Angeles, she is a mental health advocate in the LGBTQ community. She has shared the stage with electronic artist Moby, among others. Plus, she has performed at LA Fashion Week, had her music featured by the LA Times and Huffington Post, and even performed for the mayor of Los Angeles. Her music has been heard on international commercials, with companies such as Disney and Dove using her songs in advertisements.
“There’s a lot of timing when it comes to releasing music and a lot of it is, of course, how the artist is feeling at the time… Sometimes, these things, you just have to do your best at acting in the moment.”
“You meet so many wonderful people who were the big fish in the small pond in their hometown; then they moved to Los Angeles, and now everybody's kind of fighting for the light and the attention.”
“You just gotta put your blinders on and focus on you and realize that you're the only one doing the thing you're doing, so, there's no need to compare yourself, just enjoy it and do your best.”
“Finding a balance, I will say, I don't believe that is completely possible to have a perfect work/life balance, but I do believe that you can work towards it every day. You can really check in with yourself.”
“As an artist, it’s not you have to go write a song, you get to go write a song, you get to go to shows, you get to network with people who all chase their dreams in one way or another.”
“That’s when I found music. It was my little break in the day, after a 12-hour day on a college campus I would go play the piano and just, I would feel so free and I thought, ‘There's people who just do this part. I wonder how that works. This is great’.”
“I had a bit of writer's block the last few months and the ukulele has a wonderful way of breaking that.”
“The best thing you can do for that song you're about to release is promote it on each platform; give it as much attention as you can, and don't just do it once. Don't just say, ‘Hey, my song came out today, please listen to it, please.’ No, you should be on there a month before, talking about a cool song you just wrote and some of the lyrics and how excited you are for it to come out, and then you should be talking about the music video you're filming. And that's been the biggest thing for me to help it really get heard.”
“Don’t It Feel Good”
“I Feel Better Now”