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A song dedicated to my grandmother and written on the first anniversary of her death.

A song about living between this world and the next.

A song about what depression feels like to me.

Upcoming

Parts

Release Date: TBA

A piano only album, each song representing one of my parts.

Lullaby

Release Date: TBA

A lullaby album inspired by a comment my high school voice teacher said to me after a lesson: “I would listen to a lullaby album by you.”

Latest Single

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Wonderland

This is an album inspired by the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson). A running theme in the album is a sense of not belonging. This sense of not belonging is a feeling that intensified for me once I began high school. I even expressed to my family that I felt as though I was an alien and needed to find the planet I came from. Not only did this confuse them, but it confused me too. How did I not feel like I belonged when I had friends and teams that I was a part of? Only recently was I diagnosed with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), and I discovered that many on the spectrum describe the exact same experience of feeling like an alien.

High Tea is a song about a tea party gone wrong, where one of the guests tries as best she can to camouflage herself within the group, but eventually the mask comes off.

Prism

I wrote this album over the course of a year about my struggle with depression and psychosis resulting in many hospitalizations.

Every track is associated with a feeling or emotion and the color that I associate with it. Specifically, I associate blue with sadness, red with fear, gray with distress, black with defeat, aquamarine with relief, green with gratitude, purple with reflection, and yellow with hope.

The metaphor used to tell this story is that of a girl living in a castle with a friend, who is really just a part of herself. They have to escape a fire on the island and take refuge on a sailboat as they journey to a new land.

For this album, most of the songs took shape by writing the lyrics first and then composing the music to back them.

Haunting

I wrote and recorded the songs for this album in four days. Unlike Prism, I wrote the music first, and the lyrics second. Released on October 31, 2023, the album is Halloween themed, though the topic is inspired by a story I wrote about a voice that frightens me, and the battle that often ensues between my voice and hers. See the attachment below to read the story.

Shadows

This album is a compilation of songs written between the summer of 2022, when I picked up a ukulele for the first time, and the summer of 2023 when I was trying to master some basic beginner guitar skills. Many of the songs are about my experience with auditory hallucinations and the difficult feelings surrounding hospitalization.

Below you will find three songs from this album.

“The Shadows Have A Sound” is about how external stimuli, and auditory hallucinations feel overwhelming and all of the information can become jumbled in my brain.

“Inhuman” and “Solutions I Can’t Solve” are about what it feels like to be hospitalized and how medication side effects can be frustrating.

A Visual Portfolio Of My Music

See the covers of my singles and albums and a quick description of each below.

  • I Think There's Something Inside: A single about depression

  • My Own Enemy: A single about the voices in my head

  • Growing Older: A song to my younger self

  • Butterfly Fly Away: An EP about grief and loss dedicated to my grandmother

  • Hourglass: A single dedicated to my grandmother on the second anniversary of her death

  • Don't Play With Fire: A single about what it means to engage with the voices

  • Shadows: An album about dealing with psychosis

  • You're Not Alone: An EP about depression, anxiety, and eating disorders

  • Do It Together: A single about connecting with others who may be struggling

  • Go Gently Forward: A single about moving forward through difficult circumstances

  • On The Edge: A single about being scared about what's to come

  • Prism: An album about depression and psychosis

  • Haunting: A Halloween themed album about battling a voice

  • I'll Teach You: A single about the promise that new life holds and the wonder of the world around us

  • Bird With The Broken Wing: A single to say that it is okay that we are all a little broken- it doesn't mean that we can't fly in our own way.

  • Wonderland: An album with the theme of not belonging

  • Superpowers: A song about not needing to feel inferior or apologize for being different