My name is Erica, and I compose. I'd like to say I really started getting into music with a passion when I was about 12 years old although it has always been a part of my life. In elementary school I dabbled in the wonderful ways of the violin and cello. By the time junior high rolled around I had received my first guitar for Christmas from my amazing parents. It was a used black Jackson electric guitar and it was my baby. I refused to take lessons even though it was not an option because I didn't have the money for lessons so I basically learned by ear and self taught lessons over the internet.
At age 13 I met this boy and his guitar, we fell in love and all that jazz, all the while writing crappy pop punk music together on guitars we hardly knew how to play. As time went on we progressed, forming different bands here and there, playing with our style, going through lots of turmoil together. Finally we built a band that was working out and that actually made it a decent ways down the road as far as local bands go. All the while I had been playing with my own sound after I invested in a piano about 2 years ago. Sorry to say but the band didn't work out in the end, sadly, and I felt my heart sink through the ground when I let it go because it was my whole life and a big piece of my identity for about 5 years. Well I picked up the pieces and I am carrying on now, stronger than ever.
When I was a little lady I always used to play the piano at my Nonnie's house when my family would go to visit her and every time I "tickled" those ivory keys I felt so fresh inside(if that makes ANY sense at all). Either way, everyday I realize more and more that music is my one true calling and that this is what I was meant to do. In my 17 years of life I have experienced an awful lot. The past 4 years of my life have been the hardest, most heart breaking, identity-crisis-ridden and nerve quaking times of my existence. Luckily something beautiful came out of all that I went through emotionally and I was able to translate my insanity, my feelings, and what I REALLY always wanted to say, into my music. Music is just another way of speaking for me and I'm more than thankful every day for being lucky enough to carry on with what I love without anyone stopping me. So I guess that's basically it, if you wanted detailed details I will just write a book about it and maybe you'll see it on some "made for TV" movie someday.
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