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Music isn’t in my family, I don’t know where I have got it from, but it is what keeps me going and I can’t think of doing anything else now.
I’ve always done things myself, I get hooked on ideas I think of and then I can’t relax until I’ve made that idea happen.
A guitar teacher once told me to give up because my fingers were too small... I was a child. So I ended up teaching myself to play the guitar when I was 12!
As a teenager I sold bespoke products online, I loved the feeling I got when something I created sold. When I would have a bad day at school I came home and placed orders for new products to sell. The bad days made me strive to do better.
I really loved having a little business empire which definitely had potential to grow, but it was always in the back of my mind that I wanted to be a songwriter, so I set off on a different path from business. I gave up my job and started busking and gigging around the UK.
I look back on having my little online business as the way which allowed me to find music. I would have been studying Graphics Design if I didn’t drop out of an art course after the first week of college, to focus on working and busking. I’m a huge believer in fate, and believe the universe made me see it’s okay to follow my childhood dream because I had put in the work when I should have been enjoying my teenage years. It was time to live. I quite liked taking risks back then…now I’m older I have a bit more to lose.
I was’t any good at busking when I started. After I got my guitar out of it’s case I put it straight back in and went home, I was embarrassed. However I had it in my head that I wanted to busk, so I kept going back to the city centre and forcing myself to perform. I think people felt sorry for me because I couldn’t sing and my guitar sounded awful, but gradually I watched people’s reactions change as they walked past, and that was when I realised I might be alright at this. I used busking as a way to learn how to perform and sing, and then moved onto playing shows.
My parents said to me I had to either get a real job or go back to college, I decided to go back to college so I could learn how to produce my songs. Class wasn’t as interesting as I thought it would be, and I would be thinking of much better ways to spend my time, like performing. As the two years of college went on my attendance dropped massively because I could drive. I didn’t have to wait for the end of the day bus so I would just drive off whenever I got bored in class. Looking back, that’s pretty cheeky, but you gotta do what you gotta do hey.
Mountains was the first EP I self produced and sold all of the copies at shows. I went to university to continue learning how to produce music. I wanted to get the sounds in my head out there recorded. Again, class wasn’t too interesting, it was bringing me down rather than inspiring me, and my work was being graded as fails, so I skipped most days. I self produced another EP called Days We Live Best, and that was the moment I realised the country music tone which was naturally being heard in all of my music. I didn’t choose it, it chose me. I was brought up on American country rock music, so I definitely think I was born with the tone.
Everything seemed to have accelerated after my 2nd EP. I was incredibly lucky to have experienced some amazing opportunities in 2018 which then opened doors. In January 2019 I was invited to Karma Sound Studios in Thailand. This was the music changing moment when I knew what I needed to do. I came back home in the February and dropped out of university. I also stopped performing live so that I could focus on writing. Every week I would be in writing sessions in London and wrote a 3rd EP called Emotionally Unavailable.
In July of 2019 I went back to the studio in Thailand and came home in August with my new music. I worked with award winning writers and producers every day, living in paradise whilst doing what I loved. There is something about that studio which changes your outlook on music, I am extremely grateful.
The first week home after the best summer was pretty lifeless. I didn’t know what to do with myself. I had my song recordings and visions for what they would sound like performed live. But I had no record label and no manager. No money. No shows. Nothing besides the recording of my songs.
I decided to go back to my roots and busk again every day if it wasn’t raining. This way I would know if all else fails I could afford to eat. I loved it. This year was the biggest risk I had ever taken and it feels good. I sent my demos to everyone in the industry I could find online, but received no responses. When you have been living away from the world in a studio making something you poured yourself into, and no one will even listen to it, that does bring you down. So I decided I was going to do this myself. I believe in my songs, and that is the most important thing. I have never been so proud of something I wish I could just show you. But like all good things, it takes time. So I’m planning how to get these beautiful new tunes out into the big world, where they won’t just be lost amongst a million other songs. The music I have made in 2019 is special, I wish I can show you soon.
I’ve always done things myself, I get hooked on ideas I think of and then I can’t relax until I’ve made that idea happen.
A guitar teacher once told me to give up because my fingers were too small... I was a child. So I ended up teaching myself to play the guitar when I was 12!
As a teenager I sold bespoke products online, I loved the feeling I got when something I created sold. When I would have a bad day at school I came home and placed orders for new products to sell. The bad days made me strive to do better.
I really loved having a little business empire which definitely had potential to grow, but it was always in the back of my mind that I wanted to be a songwriter, so I set off on a different path from business. I gave up my job and started busking and gigging around the UK.
I look back on having my little online business as the way which allowed me to find music. I would have been studying Graphics Design if I didn’t drop out of an art course after the first week of college, to focus on working and busking. I’m a huge believer in fate, and believe the universe made me see it’s okay to follow my childhood dream because I had put in the work when I should have been enjoying my teenage years. It was time to live. I quite liked taking risks back then…now I’m older I have a bit more to lose.
I was’t any good at busking when I started. After I got my guitar out of it’s case I put it straight back in and went home, I was embarrassed. However I had it in my head that I wanted to busk, so I kept going back to the city centre and forcing myself to perform. I think people felt sorry for me because I couldn’t sing and my guitar sounded awful, but gradually I watched people’s reactions change as they walked past, and that was when I realised I might be alright at this. I used busking as a way to learn how to perform and sing, and then moved onto playing shows.
My parents said to me I had to either get a real job or go back to college, I decided to go back to college so I could learn how to produce my songs. Class wasn’t as interesting as I thought it would be, and I would be thinking of much better ways to spend my time, like performing. As the two years of college went on my attendance dropped massively because I could drive. I didn’t have to wait for the end of the day bus so I would just drive off whenever I got bored in class. Looking back, that’s pretty cheeky, but you gotta do what you gotta do hey.
Mountains was the first EP I self produced and sold all of the copies at shows. I went to university to continue learning how to produce music. I wanted to get the sounds in my head out there recorded. Again, class wasn’t too interesting, it was bringing me down rather than inspiring me, and my work was being graded as fails, so I skipped most days. I self produced another EP called Days We Live Best, and that was the moment I realised the country music tone which was naturally being heard in all of my music. I didn’t choose it, it chose me. I was brought up on American country rock music, so I definitely think I was born with the tone.
Everything seemed to have accelerated after my 2nd EP. I was incredibly lucky to have experienced some amazing opportunities in 2018 which then opened doors. In January 2019 I was invited to Karma Sound Studios in Thailand. This was the music changing moment when I knew what I needed to do. I came back home in the February and dropped out of university. I also stopped performing live so that I could focus on writing. Every week I would be in writing sessions in London and wrote a 3rd EP called Emotionally Unavailable.
In July of 2019 I went back to the studio in Thailand and came home in August with my new music. I worked with award winning writers and producers every day, living in paradise whilst doing what I loved. There is something about that studio which changes your outlook on music, I am extremely grateful.
The first week home after the best summer was pretty lifeless. I didn’t know what to do with myself. I had my song recordings and visions for what they would sound like performed live. But I had no record label and no manager. No money. No shows. Nothing besides the recording of my songs.
I decided to go back to my roots and busk again every day if it wasn’t raining. This way I would know if all else fails I could afford to eat. I loved it. This year was the biggest risk I had ever taken and it feels good. I sent my demos to everyone in the industry I could find online, but received no responses. When you have been living away from the world in a studio making something you poured yourself into, and no one will even listen to it, that does bring you down. So I decided I was going to do this myself. I believe in my songs, and that is the most important thing. I have never been so proud of something I wish I could just show you. But like all good things, it takes time. So I’m planning how to get these beautiful new tunes out into the big world, where they won’t just be lost amongst a million other songs. The music I have made in 2019 is special, I wish I can show you soon.
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Charlotte Lily
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