My music is Pop rock ...
My music is Pop rock – or more precisely modern Pop rock. Sometimes with power, sometimes soft and influences ranging from alternative to musical to world music. With a noticeable homage to Alanis Morissette.
I have also started working with artists to realize their songs. My vision is to show a way to get from the first song idea to the complete song. Young female musicians in particular are often afraid to get to grips with technology and boldly tweak knobs.
These days, it’s much easier than you think and I help with the first steps and accompany you all the way to the finished song or album. As a coach, songwriter and producer.
I’m pursuing another main job because parents and common sense drove me into business after school. Nevertheless, I have always been a musician as an ambitious hobby or rather second job. My big goal is to turn my second job into my first job and to be able to make a living with music and as a producer – not easy in my early 40s!
But first a brief review:
Music was and is my refuge, my constant companion and my great passion – far beyond a hobby. I have sung in semi-professional vocal ensembles, performed in musicals, played paid gigs with cover bands and also played in front of large audiences of over 50,000 people. Just never my own songs.
Then, in 2020, time brought the pandemic. Like so many, I had no more gigs, I missed the music. After a long time, I sat down at the piano, because as a child I had learned classical piano, including reading music and music theory. But I didn’t want to compose music out loud. So I just picked up some keys and sang along. Without limits, without method and without guidance! Often without any idea what I was actually doing! The only problem was that the songs sounded completely different in my head. It wasn’t just ballads and songs with lots of piano. There were electric guitars, lots of bass and drums, percussion, yes, even organ and synths, even strings and horns.
How lucky we are in this day and age to have digital help. I had an old version of Cubase lying around somewhere and just started producing. Within a few weeks, a whole new world opened up to me. And it’s so much fun. Gosh, why didn’t I discover it 20 years earlier? I not only love writing music, but also producing it myself.
My small home recording studio doesn’t have a lot of equipment, but it’s well selected and I can get quite far with it. Since then, I’ve been realizing all my ideas. And not just mine. I now also help others. One song after the other is created and there is always a motto:
Never get bored!
And then there is music!
I record partly in the studio and partly at home. And yes, you read that right – many vocals are recorded in my closet.
I play everything that has keys and now I also play some acoustic and electric guitar.
I pre-produce my own songs using midi (yes, I also program the drums) and because it suits the genre, I then go into the studio with musicians and have the missing instruments recorded – including some brass sections. Due to my proximity to Mannheim and the Popakademie, I’m quite well connected in the area. In the beginning I had help from producers, but I mixed the last few songs myself, I only outsource mastering. I haven’t done enough of that yet and I think it’s really good to have fresh ears listening to the songs.
Who would have thought that I would start producing music in my early 40s, and not just my own music! I’m slowly realizing that I can fulfill a lifelong dream after all – to introduce my music to a wide audience and help other artists create their music.
My songs are now being heard all over the world and are part of radio stations, which makes me very proud. On Spotify, I have 30K monthly listeners at peak times. And why am I pursuing this crazy goal at my age?
No can do without Music!
Because I’ve realized that I really blossom when I’m allowed to live creativity. Because I realized what a brilliant feeling it is to help young people with their art. Because I quickly got to grips with the subject and received a lot of positive feedback. Because this task simply fulfills me!
What does it take to change? Will you dare to give up some comfort?
First it may feel strange, but it will set you free, it will set you free!