blending old with new this Canadian
songstress has been called the female
Michael Buble hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
speaking with Meegan Smith – tell us a
bit about your background and how that
has come to affect the music you make
when I was much younger I grew up in a
family where my mom was a piano teacher
my dad was a bass player so music was
always in our home whether it was
someone playing an instrument or like
the radio being on or someone playing
records my dad he played bass in like
some cover bands and stuff when he was
younger so he really liked to classic
rock but he also he loved Shaddai so
there was love Sunday he loved artists
like Stevie Wonder just really good
solid music like really real musicians
and then my mom listened to a lot of
classical music and then on top of that
we did not have cable when I was growing
up so we watched a lot of movies a lot
of them were actually old musicals it
was a great source of inspiration
my grandfather is a lover of music too
he has a huge record collection so I
found a lot of fantastic artists in his
record collection and I remember when I
found Louis Jourdan it was like this
guy’s amazing I was like just has
anybody heard of him cuz I had never
heard of him same with Ella Fitzgerald
that was going around being like this
amazing singer do you know who should
have you heard of her and everybody of
course was like yes everyone’s heard of
her you know I just found music wherever
I could get my hands on it and listen to
it oh I can’t repress so boy I must
confess do you have a particular era
that you’re most drawn to I seem to make
music that reflects the 20s 30s 40s like
older sort of jazzy I don’t really know
how but it just kind of comes out that
way I love a lot of modern music – so my
music is full of old influences but with
modern twists hello we are smile when
did you first decide to follow music as
your path I was working as an artist as
an animator I kind of got to this point
in my life where I was like here is my
life this is what it is and I sort of
stepped outside of myself and looked at
it and I was like am i completely
fulfilled and no I wasn’t I really
wanted to pursue my music but I was
really terrified of being on stage so I
had to work through my stage fright and
then I had to write a write an album and
then I had to find money to have the
record produced and recorded and so it
was a four year project from start to
finish when I first decided I wanted to
try and do this and really go for it to
the point where the record was actually
finished but it was yeah it was that
initial point one day at my job and I
was like you know this is cool but like
I think my life could be a lot cooler if
I went from I went for my dream you know
it’s crazy that it worked out
when he read me a note and you send it
by post now let’s talk about your stage
fright I want to expand on that a bit
how did you manage to work through that
when I made the decision to to really go
for it there was kind of no turning back
I was gonna figure out a way to make it
happen so I googled stage fright and I
found all these interviews with people
who suffered from it and one interview
really spoke to me it was this the
singer named Patty Griffin in this
interview she said the only way to get
over your stage fright is just to go
through it and accept that you’re gonna
suck until you don’t suck anymore it did
take four years to of just every week
going to an open mic and you know
playing where I could and and just
sounding really terrible and being like
someday I’m not gonna send this terrible
hopefully
this is a long process but it was really
worth it
you know singing it in front of people
is my favorite thing to do now
songstress has been called the female
Michael Buble hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
speaking with Meegan Smith – tell us a
bit about your background and how that
has come to affect the music you make
when I was much younger I grew up in a
family where my mom was a piano teacher
my dad was a bass player so music was
always in our home whether it was
someone playing an instrument or like
the radio being on or someone playing
records my dad he played bass in like
some cover bands and stuff when he was
younger so he really liked to classic
rock but he also he loved Shaddai so
there was love Sunday he loved artists
like Stevie Wonder just really good
solid music like really real musicians
and then my mom listened to a lot of
classical music and then on top of that
we did not have cable when I was growing
up so we watched a lot of movies a lot
of them were actually old musicals it
was a great source of inspiration
my grandfather is a lover of music too
he has a huge record collection so I
found a lot of fantastic artists in his
record collection and I remember when I
found Louis Jourdan it was like this
guy’s amazing I was like just has
anybody heard of him cuz I had never
heard of him same with Ella Fitzgerald
that was going around being like this
amazing singer do you know who should
have you heard of her and everybody of
course was like yes everyone’s heard of
her you know I just found music wherever
I could get my hands on it and listen to
it oh I can’t repress so boy I must
confess do you have a particular era
that you’re most drawn to I seem to make
music that reflects the 20s 30s 40s like
older sort of jazzy I don’t really know
how but it just kind of comes out that
way I love a lot of modern music – so my
music is full of old influences but with
modern twists hello we are smile when
did you first decide to follow music as
your path I was working as an artist as
an animator I kind of got to this point
in my life where I was like here is my
life this is what it is and I sort of
stepped outside of myself and looked at
it and I was like am i completely
fulfilled and no I wasn’t I really
wanted to pursue my music but I was
really terrified of being on stage so I
had to work through my stage fright and
then I had to write a write an album and
then I had to find money to have the
record produced and recorded and so it
was a four year project from start to
finish when I first decided I wanted to
try and do this and really go for it to
the point where the record was actually
finished but it was yeah it was that
initial point one day at my job and I
was like you know this is cool but like
I think my life could be a lot cooler if
I went from I went for my dream you know
it’s crazy that it worked out
when he read me a note and you send it
by post now let’s talk about your stage
fright I want to expand on that a bit
how did you manage to work through that
when I made the decision to to really go
for it there was kind of no turning back
I was gonna figure out a way to make it
happen so I googled stage fright and I
found all these interviews with people
who suffered from it and one interview
really spoke to me it was this the
singer named Patty Griffin in this
interview she said the only way to get
over your stage fright is just to go
through it and accept that you’re gonna
suck until you don’t suck anymore it did
take four years to of just every week
going to an open mic and you know
playing where I could and and just
sounding really terrible and being like
someday I’m not gonna send this terrible
hopefully
this is a long process but it was really
worth it
you know singing it in front of people
is my favorite thing to do now
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