Female Indie Musicians Playlist

  Hey Camille! Can you tell us where you’re from? I’m from Athens, Ga (not Greece 😂 ) everyone always thinks that if I don’t say Georgia. My mom is Cuban & my dad is Arabic & Finnish! ☺ ️ The Cuban side has definitely influenced my music & with that has given me more confidence about my culture because as a kid, I was really timid and insecure about that because of the area I was going to school in at the time. I’ve embraced it now & one of my songs “No Soy Menos” is about embracing whoever you are, especially being a woman. I’m actually not fluent in Spanish so I had to learn some more Spanish for some of it, which was hard but fun! I might have some Arabic sounding surprises in some of my new stuff 😉 Who are your biggest influences from the music industry?  Demi Lovato’s empowering & sassy lyrics in a lot of her music has really helped influence a lot of my writing. I’ve always looked up to Joan Jett & her music and she’s a total badass, but ...

Hey Valerie! Can you tell us where you’re from?  I am originally from Southern California where I grew up in a little suburb town called Newbury Park. As of now, I have lived in Ogden, Utah the past almost 7 years. I am happily married with two sphynx kitties. Just surviving, thriving and being creative.  We noticed on Spotify that your earliest release was in 2011! How long have you been pursuing music and how has your music grown and transformed over the years?  I have been a musician and singer-songwriter since I was in grade school, but I have actively been pursuing music since I was in the Army in the early 2000s. When I was 4 or 5 years of age, I started writing stories with my drawings, but I could hear music in my mind all the time. I would tell my mom that I could hear orchestras in my head. I still wake up in the middle of the night hearing a song idea and needing to hum it into a recorder. I am sure you can all relate. I wrote short little ditties as a child, o...