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Heather Andrews

About Me

I love pop music, I love to sing and it turns out that I write good songs too. It's taken me a while to put those three things together. I've moved from studying Physics, Maths and Music at school to sound engineering in a London Studio to recording my own songs when the studios were free.

At this point I met Narada Michael Walden. I was an assistant on a recording session he was doing at Sphere Studios, London and I became his “Musie Muse”! I gave him a CD of some of my songs and he fell for 'Too Weak to Speak'. Two years later I started taking my music seriously and decided to make an album so I gave Narada a call.

When 'Too Weak to Speak' went so well we wanted to work together some more. I was over in California to record another song around the time of my birthday and Narada and I headed to the beach for my day. We were catching up, relaxing and feeling generally inspired so he starts tapping out a beat and a bit of a melody and gets me singing along. I recorded our jam on my camera and we decided to cut it the next day at Tarpan, Narada’s Marin County California studio. I finished the lyrics on the ferry over to the studio, Narada put together the chords and the arrangement and 'A Day at the Beach' was born. Simple. Beautiful.

For the past couple of years I've been using and abusing all my talented friends in the music industry begging free studio time and musicians. Now the album is nearly finished I am amazed at what I've achieved and how much I've learnt. I just loving making good music and singing it with all my heart. And now a little bit about Narada.

Narada Michael Walden is a Multi Grammy Winning Songwriter, Producer and Drummer.  His Credits include as drummer: (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck, and so many more!), Producer: (Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Jefferson Starship...the list is infinite).  Narada Michael Walden has 56 charted number one hits to his name, more than any producer in history and is a prolific songwriter with 12 solo albums of his own.

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Member Since: 8/10/2006
Band Website: www.heatherandrews.org
Band Members: Heather Andrews: Vocals, songwriting
Keir Milligan: Drums, keys, and who knows what
Andy Finney: Drums and attitude
Gabriele Nicotra & John Oag & Richard Andrews: Bass
Joni Lee: Lead guitar
Matthew Ross: Guitars & Arty photos

Influences:
Sounds Like: A Day at the Beach - Heather Andrews

Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

So many hairstyles

My friend and fellow singer Calli Malpas made a little slideshow of my various hairstyles over the past few years that I have known her so I thought I'd post it along with one of my own making to fill...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:31:00 GMT

Song Vault FM climber

Well some of you have been voting like crazy for me and it's paying off. A Day at the Beach has whizzed through 3 chart levels to make it into the radio chart. It's climbing fast though the top 40 and...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:39:00 GMT

A Day at the Beach news

Hello blog readersI just thought I'd write a little note telling you how 'A Day at the Beach' has been going. I've had lots of lovely messages and comments from people saying how much they like the so...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:12:00 GMT

My first Blog and My first write up

Well I never saw the point of blogging. Thought it might be rather self indulgent, but I've had a nice write up from my gig at The Icarus Club the other night and I thought I'd share it with you."Heat...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:49:00 GMT