Every week more and more people are jumping on the EM Bandwagon. This time our new friends at Sony Music (of all people) have given us a brand new Sony Network Walkman and some Sony Connect Cards to give away. All you need to do to qualify to win is listen to the single from Sony’s brand new artist [url=http://www.annanalick.com/]Anna Nalick[/url]. While you are there be sure to sign up for her mailing list for opportunities to get other cool stuff.
If you are a fan of Sarah McLachlan, then you’ll like this. “”Breathe”” is along the lines of Sarah’s up tempo tracks like “”After Glow.”” Trust me, you’ll dig it. I wouldn’t have this contest if I didn’t think she has potential. Read her bio below, and check out the contest rules.
Anna Nalick is beginning to live her dreams. As one of the new breed of singer-songwriters for the new century, the California native has put the finishing touches on Wreck of the Day, her debut album, and the result is a refreshing blend of sophisticated wordplay, haunting melodies, sublime textures and atmosphere, and the arrival of an unmistakable new voice in pop music, full of youthful exuberance and provocative reflection.”
“Inspiration comes from a variety of sources,” she says of her songs. “They’re not necessarily about my personal experiences, but sometimes just observations of situations or relationships of different people I’ve known. They get funneled through my own inner psychology. Whatever the source of the interpretation, the feelings I get are personal. I find a need to write these feelings down in words and the melody follows.”
“Citing a wide range of influences running from Fiona Apple and Tori Amos, with whom she shares a complex feminine poignancy, to Blind Melon and John Mayer, whose adroit poetic paradoxes reverberate in her songs, to Stevie Ray Vaughan, whom she calls, simply, “The guy that I’m going to marry when I get to heaven,” Nalick generates a sound and sensibility distinctly her own.
“From the time I was a little girl I just knew I wanted to be a performer”” she recalls. “My earliest inspiration came from my grandparents, they both performed on Broadway, mainly in the chorus. My grandmother even danced with Fred Astaire. She was in the stage versions of the Marx Brothers’ ‘Coconuts’ and ‘Animal Crackers.’ I learned many of the songs from those old shows from my grandmother who taught them to me when I was a kid.”
Anna’s grandmother passed on when Anna was in the 8th grade, but her tales of classic old school “show business” instilled in Anna the passionate desire to become a performer herself.
Anna grew up in Glendora, just east of Pasadena, California.
“A town with a main street with an ice cream shop,” is how she describes it, “like out of ‘Back To The Future.'” When Anna was 14, her father turned her on to the sounds of Elvis and the Everly Brothers, while her mother spun disks for Anna by artists like the Rolling Stones, Cream, and Led Zeppelin.
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