and demand the right answer. the. question. greetings and salutations french poet novelist victor hugo once stated music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent for many music is indeed that conduit which allows us to voice everything from our rage our love our our politics our happiness and oftentimes our heartbreak when the world around us would rather we stay silent. the great singer songwriters overcome this oppression whether internal or external to provide us that great

freedom from oppression. when done right they use their mix of talent dedication and vulnerability to craft songs that truly capture the emotion and spirit of the human condition their art talent and courage to lay their thoughts and emotions bare gives us those great moments in our lives when a song truly captures who we are what we want and what we feel inside that we we desperately want to share with the world around us. so today let us not remain silent and celebrate the singer songwriters who express that which cannot be put into words as watching the hawks strikes a chord if you want to would know that you see the series at the bank fails or that you basically need to analyze it to gauge the plot to see if you speak. for the day like it or not i got to visit with lethal. three today and it is still

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my mom says that i was saying before i could really speak and there is actually a video home video of me standing on the stairs maybe two and a half and being like. i don't know being a opera singer so i guess i sort of want to do that. i grew up listening to my parents records and classical music and my grandparents and i grew up on a farm so we didn't have cable i think we got one channel and it had lawrence welk on it so we watched that i say we a lot because i have an identical twin sister so so i'm not saying like the royal

we. really it was just about discovering those. those inspirations and then started seeing in church choir has been to catholic school and then when we moved to california i got into theater camp and doing musicals and i had to be incredibly afraid to sing in front of people on stage just by myself it was very scary but i want to do for some reason and it got me out of my shell super super. shy and i think when i started singing and performing that really brought me out. i got to be loud i mean people out of times say that i have this voice that doesn't seem to go with my the way i look and i'm small and whatever but i know again my mom so that when i was born i was less than four pounds primi and but you couldn't tell by my voice everyone knew i was there screaming really loud so it's been always that way and then i started

listening to hanson discovered hanson that is really the reason i wanted to be a singer songwriter. because i was like oh they are so young and they're doing this and started learning how to harmonize with my sister and then. with a guitar and. resident history. the songwriting where a lot of people started singing and then you get to songwriting what inspired you to start writing. well ok from the beginning i had already been writing songs with my sister like in our tree house on the farm we wrote our first song when we were three i think it was about being cold and wanting to go inside and and i actually wrote that melody of that song into another song that i have now. but. after that after like the our clubhouse songs that we wrote.

i found the artist brandi carlile and i thought she was so had this incredible voice and such an incredible. you know message to her songs that was like oh my gosh these are songs that i would write and i should write them and that's when i started really writing my own songs then and then after that after a while of doing that by myself i started doing co-writes which initially were very scary for me but now this whole e.p. that just came out today is. oh no there's one song that's not a but most of them are and i think it really brings a whole new level of excitement and something new and i always feel like if as an artist if you're not scared you're not doing it right. and so i was really scared kind of not actually scared but like it was a whole new experience and. it was really fun and i think it came out really well.

so one of the most unique things about singer songwriters is their ability to you know open themselves up and share of the world you know some of the most emotions and feelings and life experiences how difficult it is that. i mean it is when i really think about it is like yeah it's kind of crazy that i put so much of my personal story. and feelings out there for so many people to hear but. i got to be honest i it hasn't been hard i'm not well ok though the hard part about it is only when i am thinking about the person that it's about some of them like here and there and you know and sometimes that's really scary and awkward and embarrassing because i'm like oh well i don't want to think that i care that much but reading far i really i do but mostly it's

because it. was last night i thought. it's not about it being that i care about what the public think that's just about that person but a lot of times it is the thing that i can do to say the things that i could never say to that person so i'm actually kind of i don't know vindicated by it like yeah this is what i'm saying to you and i hope everyone hears it on the radio and i hope you do too you know so so how important is that sharing of yourself sharing of the memories and the emotions that you feel i guess what i'm trying to say is how important is the singer songwriter to the culture of the audience to all those. oh. i mean. it really i mean really important because i think that it brings a lot of people into a place where they couldn't put a certain feeling or

a certain experience into words and then you hear the song and you're like oh yes yes that's exactly what it is i don't feel alone anymore and i feel like i can really be in this feeling which a lot of people i think don't really settle into their feelings and why we all have you know stomach problems like anxiety because they're not really just like letting it out and i think i've i've definitely suffered with anxiety in my life and i think i don't know how how do people who don't have something like songwriting get through their lives at least i can do that and i know that. every time i think i'm going to feel better afterwards but you know there's all those people like bob dylan and you know me really shaped political commentary like. yeah i think that it is very important because even if you also can't understand the lyrics even if you know don't speak english or whatever language the song is then it's a universal language music and you can feel what it's about even without

understanding the words and a lot of people times people don't even if you do want to look at. what was a song or a songwriter that showed you that someone else could write a song and understand. my gosh there's been a lot. i wish i had a ready answer for this. one of the artists that comes to mind that just sort of does this in a general way as the artist israel minting that probably wasn't the first time but he just has this voice that comes like from the earth great lakes soul. and he has this really amazing way of saying things that have been said thousands millions of times in songs before but where you're just like yeah that's the bare bones human experience simple that's what it is. and then more recently if you're thinking about

a song says the one that came to my head is. a great big world say something. it's perfect it's so simple it has extremely like. you know relatable lyrics because they're just any i would have i don't remember what the all of the lyrics are right at this moment but like they've been said a million times in songs but that whole say something i'm giving up on you. who hasn't felt that way and that right when that came out. i was definitely in the midst of one of those experiences and i was like whoever wrote the songs of genius because they just get it if you can just say the thing that is just going to touch people's hearts right there that's just so real especially if you can say it in a way that feels like the what it is like when people say they're crying and they don't like they're crying. that's going to be gold every time we're going to court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered and

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so what do you think is the biggest misunderstanding the government or corporations have of the artist in particular musician. there's a couple of things that come to mind one of them and i wish i could remember who said this but it was it was someone in the. in the government or that was like ok artists all of you you're just just saying just act stop i don't care. but you

think like just shut up and saying or whatever that kind of vibe. and that is a huge misunderstanding obviously because hi i'm a citizen of this country i am a person with opinions and feelings and and ideas even though i happen to be doing something that is an entertainment industry yeah oh you dance monkey like just be quiet don't you don't get to think that it's a huge misunderstanding and i think that that's. if people have their opinions and they have a platform to speak them because they are famous for being an actor or a musician or whatever then good for them i mean these other people to have their opposite opinions have a platform because of who they are the government or whatever and so i think that that's a really lame to say you're only allowed to be an artist just dance for me. and then the other thing is i think people really really misunderstand not misunderstand but. underestimate how important art is. how important it

is to have you know music programs and art programs in schools and even in in prisons like my my sister is actually a filmmaker and she's been working on a documentary that is about it's called the prison music project and it's with this girl zoe bookbinder and she's making an album with annie to franco have you heard of her. or her sister yeah kim ok i want to endure them as the small world that's when i read twilight. and. so she's doing this album that she wrote with inmates from folsom prison and making it with any different my sister's doing a documentary about it about it and it's to bring to light how much of a difference it makes to have this artistic outlet for people and. you know. how do

you see that were received as the recidivism recidivism goes down when they have these programs of programs and you know if we can start that and not take away you know the funding for the arts and funding for school arts programs and actually start that at a young age and have people be able to take their time doing something creative that feeds their soul and not only take up their time so they're not you know out doing other things that. might be bad for them but it's also just feeding into their their purpose in life and. yeah i think that that's very misunderstood because a lot of people just think like oh well we don't need like interest like fluffy right like ok you go home and watch t.v. don't you like you listen to music don't you what what would the world be without this and yeah that's all i have to say that. it's not really all i have to say but this is going to. we're going to what is i mean it's a really. such a important thing is that we're in

a place in society where we're not valuing things that are good that these things are considered frivolous they're extras we can afford these now we need other things when they're so fundamental what do we have to do as lovers of music of lovers of our or artists what what's the responsibility of an artist in a world we live in now because there's so much anger there's so many people screaming nonsense how do we get enough people to sing over the nonsense so we can hear the nonsense how do we do that that's a really good question and i'm going to think about this more. how do we do that i think will just keep saying don't stop don't let the the naysayers you know let you don't don't listen to the people real people out there they're telling you what you're doing isn't worth anything and also don't listen to the voices in your head that are telling you that because i think we all probably have that. i definitely have i definitely had those moments where i'm like why am i what did i do today

like you know my cousin just you know was working on a cure for aids and i wrote a song well if you like it but you know so it can be like that but really it's just not to listen to those things to keep making things that matter to keep creating songs that have a message but even even if it's not like a really deep you know political message or anything like that songs like that just made people feel happy because we got to feel happy right. see you. missed. the is this. the in.

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