I’m just *AUDRA*

My writing style is not rare. I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel. The subject matter is heartbreak: plain and simple. Something we all have known at one time or another. My playing style is straightforward and my lyrics are easy to decipher. But it’s not the subject matter that draws you in. It’s that the words are infectiously catchy and the honesty is merciless. If I’m sad, you’ll hear it. If I’m happy, you’ll know it. And if I’m angry, you better believe you’re going to feel it. My songs often read as an autobiography of my love life; so ex-boyfriend’s of the past beware. I’m just a girl that wears my heart on my guitar and my lyrics on my sleeve. Inspired by music legends such as Pink Floyd, The Beatles, and The Doors, I wrote my first song when I was 13 and never looked back. After graduating from Fordham University with a degree in music, I have made it my mission to share my art with everyone. This is my life. These are my stories. Won’t you listen?

“What am I to build, if my hands are broken, if I’m not the chosen one?” sings Steven McKellar of Civil Twilight on “Story of An Immigrant”, over a lush, dynamic beat that evokes the sounds of his native South Africa while steeped in the band’s everevolving present. The foursome (Steven, his brother and guitarist Andrew, drummer Richard Wouters and Kevin Dailey on keys and guitar) are living proof of what happens when you stop worrying about being the chosen one and make music built on both the roots that grew you and the love that keeps you thriving every day. Civil Twilight’s songs embrace every corner of human emotion, balancing delicate, poetic lyrics with sweeping arrangements that touch all the senses: a phrase to make you think; a rolling drumbeat you can feel in your bones; a guitar vamp as illustrative as a picture; a shimmer of keys whose light can nearly be seen and heard. Produced by Ben H. Allen (Gnarls Barkley, Bombay Bicycle Club, Cut Copy), their third record on Wind-Up is built on this vibrancy, on the permanent dust of a Cape Town youth; on the connection that unites them all as brothers beyond blood and on their new home in America where they pull from the innate, thriving musicianship of Nashville, where they live. When you listen to Civil Twilight, from their self-titled debut, to 2012’s widely lauded Holy Weather to now, it’s easy to understand why the band has topped five million YouTube views and reached historic success with film and television syncs – because it’s music you can’t shake, that translates experience into moments and creates melodies that become imbedded deep under the skin. We’re all immigrants, in some way, and Civil Twilight’s singing our national anthem.

International/NYC DJ , Artist , Iraq Vet , Bronx Born, Irish Made.


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