What are you most passionate about?
Music is my ultimate passion. My first love, you might say. I started writing songs when I was 11, so it’s been a long love affair. I love how it makes me feel to not only bring new songs to life — something from nothing, it didn’t exist, and then suddenly, it does. But I love that I can make positive change with it too, and show up for good reasons and with good intentions. Family is a very important thing for me, and I really just want to make them proud as much as I can as I move forward in this life.
What do you love about what you do?
I love connecting with people, and connecting them, too. Bringing people together with a common interest is something so humbling and special. Music as a whole makes me feel, well, whole, but to see how it affects others is definitely a big plus also.
What was your favourite subject in school?
I was really enthusiastic about literature and English subjects, I love how many ways there are to tell a story, and how we can all interpret things differently. It was always fun for me to write essays about books I had read. I was very studious in that way.
What event past or present would you like to witness?
I wish I could have seen Freddie Mercury and Queen in their heyday. The Live-Aid concert would have been phenomenal to witness live, even if it was just the telecast halfway across the world. There’s something so special about seeing something as it happens, and that was definitely something historic and groundbreaking.
What are you currently listening to, watching or reading?
I just finished reading Atomic Habits by James Clear, which was such a mind-blowing book from start to finish. I’m a big fan of the Unpublished Podcast, with Amie McNee and James Winestock — they talk candidly of their own journeys surrounding creativity and creative industry and it really soothes me when I’m having an off-day, to know it’s universal. Always watching Parks and Recreation, on and off, as my go-to show. Leslie Knope is my spirit animal.
How would you describe your fashion sense?
I’m working on it! I’m in the market to upgrade my wardrobe as an upgrade to life — out of lockdown, out playing shows again, definitely needing to re-examine the jeans and t-shirt combo I’ve had going for a while now.
Have you had a pet that has made an impact on your life?
My dog is the absolute light of my life. He’s a golden retriever and he’s made it to 15 years of age at the time of these questions, so I’m really proud of him. He’s a stubborn old man with cataracts and hearing loss but he’s my baby boy. His name is Chevy; we’re car people at my house!
What were you like as a kid?
Frizzy, gap toothed, bespectacled.. a trifecta of ’awkward’ things that truly didn’t slow me down or stop me at all, because why should they, right? I was an ambitious kid, I wanted to be a librarian for a time, because I loved to read and write, mostly short stories. Then songs. When I realised I could write music, and make up my own songs and tell stories that way, I decided I wanted to be a rockstar. All these years later.. here we are!
What is your favourite colour and why?
I’m a rose gold gal. There was a time I had rose gold hair, to match my phone, my laptop, my handbag…it has just always been the colour for me. Not so flashy as gold, but a little bit girly. If I’m not rocking the rose gold, I’m in black — black car, black leather jacket, black boots. I’m a bit of a mixture of both ideas, I think. I love rock ’n’ roll… and glitter.
Do you consider yourself an extrovert or an introvert?
Definitely introverted, although there’s something to be said for getting up on stage and singing in front of people that always tends to bring out the extrovert in me. I did have a child approach me at a market and ask how I got so brave to do what I do…maybe I’m a secret extrovert.
