My demo CD is now available for purchase on Itunes, kalafarnham.com, and CDbaby.com!
I believe in honesty. I don't want to be loved for a sugar-coated version of myself, or respected for a superficial impression I give. I want to live my truth, no matter how society looks upon me. I want to live it openly and unashamedly, because to cloak it underneath a character I portray is to hide myself from the world and run away from reality, and to be cherished for a false mask is to not be cherished at all. I do not want to hide my faults, but to let the world see me whole, as I sincerely am; because if I am living as a character of my creation than I am not living at all, and instead am shielding myself not only from hatred but also from genuine love. Yet if I go through life genuine and real, than I know I am alive and open to love. I will not observe passively from behind a mask and take on the role of the actress. More than superficial appreciation, respect, and love, more than acceptance, I want this. I want to honor my commitment to truth, no matter how dark or unpopular; I want most to have an honest relationship with the world. Through the medium of music and artistic creation, I communicate my deepest, unspoken truths: the ones that just don't seem to come about naturally in everyday speech, the ones that reflect my most personal and spiritual experience of life. The ones that can only be understood fully within the depth and intensity of communication that music permits.
Since age five I have studied classical piano performance. Classical technique was a valuable tool in developing my musicianship, but I felt limited performing the traditional music of the classics and began songwriting about seven years later. Writing my own music was a means of communication and self-liberation. In high school, I began studying classical voice. I embarked for Furman University of South Carolina in 2006 with the intention of majoring in piano performance, but again found the traditional musical repertoire and the strict academic requirements stifling to my creativity. I quickly made the decision to transfer out of there at the end of the year, and am currently studying music creation and psychology at Hampshire College, a small, progressive school in Amherst, MA. All of the music you hear is completely self-produced; written, performed, and recorded by me. I have a demo cd that is currently for sale only at live performances, but it will be available online early this year. Thank you for listening!
Kala's song "Eight Months" was voted the number 2 Alternative song on the IAC Picks list by the Independent Artist Company, a website based in California and created to support independent artists. "Eight Months" also reached number 12 on on the KIAC Radio Alternative Chart.
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Concrete Angel - cover by Kala Farnham
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Other websites where Kala Farnham can be found:
www.purevolume.com/kalafarnham
www.independentartistscompany.com
www.isound.com/kala_farnham
www.nextcat.com/kalafarnham
"As creative people, we should never wait for others to validate us. We know if what weve done is our creative best." - Lydia Hutchinson, editor of Performing Songwriter
"Song is best in the absence of cerebration, before constricted and twisted to shape our expectation, the heart feels the rhythms and bathes within its stream." - RpM
