Lauren Zettler – Musician/Artist

I love to support unique, upcoming artists, and I stumbled upon this lovely voice!  Lauren is not only a wonderful soul, but a talented singer, writer, and musician!  Please vote for her newest song for the cayamo theme song contest.   You can vote and hear the entire song at:

http://playitlive.cayamo.com/entry.php?id=1337

This song “Tell Me A Story” by Lauren Zettler goes perfectly along with photography, and it’s like a love song too, so of course I’m a hopeless romantic. ( =  I hope you all enjoy it too!  Take a look at her website also at:

http://www.laurenzettler.com/

This youtube video is a blog/video of her recording and preparing the song.

Words from Lauren:

I have a really hard time writing these things. And I wrote one the other day that I really, really liked – but something happened in this great space that is the internet, and I lost it. Here we go again…

My name is Lauren. I’m a girl. I play the guitar. I have a white cat named Lola. I hate static electricity and mosquitoes (who doesn’t?) but I love chuck taylors and guacamole.

I think this all started in a mid-western living room, watching Lawrence Welk re-runs. I guess (I mean I know) it was the girls wearing pretty dresses. That was my first concern. But then they were also smiling really big, singing really cheesy songs…and there was a bubble machine at the end of it all. I was hooked. That was my fate, I decided. I was close.

I took a detour, to Berklee College of Music. It was there that I got scared and brave at the same time. I learned more than I ever thought possible, doubted myself more than I ever had before, and started to truly believe that anything was possible, all at the same time. After graduation, a fleeting bout of practicality led me to New York City, working for one of the largest music companies in the world. I was still operating under the belief system that I needed to act safe, make guaranteed money, and work hard. Looking back, I can see that I only had one out of the three right. After years of thinking it was pretty normal to cry during every musical performance I attended (now affectionately known as jealous tears), I had a wake-up call. An epiphany, if you will. And when it happened, there was no turning back. If I told you how close to a bolt of lightening it felt, you wouldn’t believe me. But if and when you experience your own, you’ll know.

Turns out I had been running away from what scared me the most…and what, coincidently, was most important to me. Once I realized that, it was pretty easy to quit my nine-to-five and start planning. I took a little break to write my first EP, flew out to L.A. to record it, and the rest…is all happening, as we speak.

I believe that everything falls into place if you are following your heart.

So, here’s to hoping we really can be anything we want to be when we grow up.

Written by Lauren Zettler

~ by aimeehood on November 6, 2008.