Girl Friday
Girl Friday is a Houston based singer/ songwriter. Combining both traditional and contemporary acoustic sounds, her music is lyric driven, harmony infused, and
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Paper Bag (cover) Paper Bag (cover)
GF enjoying singing a sassy Fiona Apple tune! I LOVE this tune!
I'll Be (Live) I'll Be (Live)
Time For Me to Fly (live cover) Time For Me to Fly (live cover)
REO Speedwagon Classic as interpreted by Girl Friday (live solo acoustic)
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Girl Friday is a Houston based singer/ songwriter. Combining both traditional and contemporary acoustic sounds, her music is lyric driven, harmony infused, and designed to draw the listener into the story and the emotion. In true singer/songwriter fashion, all songs are crafted to be performed either solo-acoustically or with a full band, making them versatile enough for a relaxing coffee house vibe or an energy-filled festival stage.
Her first EP, "Light of the Moon," was produced by Dan Workman, President and Owner of Sugar Hill Studios in Houston and member of the governing board of The Recording Academy. Her second EP, "Songbird" was co-produced and engineered by Brian Baker of Sound Arts Studios in Houston and was released on July 19, 2011.
Girl Friday is a member of both The Recording Academy and ASCAP and has played at notable acoustic venues including NYC's landmark Bitter End, Dallas' House of Blues, Momo's on Austin's world famous 6th Street, The Woodlands' popular Dosey Doe Coffee House, and Houston's nationally recognized McGonigel's Mucky Duck.
As an advocate of services designed to improve the lives of children, Girl Friday is also a musician volunteer in the Houston community with Love Street Light Circus, a non-profit musicians on call program that brings live music to the bedsides of pediatric cancer, renal, and orthopedic patients. She also supports The Y's Partners of Youth Program donating performances and portions of her EP sales to raise money to scholarship children into programs that promote a healthy spirit, mind, and body. Forever in My Heart, a track from her Light of the Moon EP, was used as background music for a JDRF fundraiser video.
Girl Friday encourages everyone to consider donating a little of their time, talent, or treasure to schools, hospitals, or programs in their communities that assist children who are in need of healing, love, and assistance. No deed is too small. Every child counts.Have you performed in front of an audience?I do! And I LOVE it! Playing live is where I think I really shine. I feel like my forte is connecting with an audience. It's about so much more than the music for me. It's about the people and the many topics we intersect on. As diverse and unique as we all are, there are fundamental things that bond human beings together. I feel those connections with an audience when I play live. I don't think in terms of them being "people who came to listen" to me. I think of "people who came to share" with me. I feed on this. It's like air in my lungs.
I have had numerous special moments from someone sharing with me that my music helped them through radiation treatments to someone telling my a song I'd sung that night helped them to express the loss of a young spouse. I've been so fortunate to know that my music gives peoples' emotions, heartaches, joys, and sometimes even silliness a soft and safe place to land. I feel privileged that people are comfortable enough with me to open up and express themselves. This is what art is for...to make us feel.
Your musical influences
This question is incredibly difficult to answer as my musical tastes are so eclectic and diverse. Everything that's come into my ears has somehow shaped my art. I have to say that the singer/songwriters are the ones who shape my writing the most. I love to hear a message or a story of some sort. Lyrics are very important to me. Those who write their own music and then sing it are very invested in the message, and I feel it comes across in the delivery. These are the same people who can sit with one instrument and deliver their song as poignantly as they could with a full band. I find it powerful to hear an artist deliver solo/ acoustically...so exposed and real. It gives me chills. Iconic folk musicians like Peter, Paul, and Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Carly Simon, Dan Fogelberg and the likes are tops on my list. Today, I like Jason Mraz, Bryan Fenkart, Missy Higgins, Ari Hest, Sara Bareilles, Adele, Matt Nathansan, Gavin DeGraw, Joshua Radin, and all those peeps whom you can hear on Sirius XM's coffee house station. I listen to everything: Classical, Jazz, Pop, Folk, Electronica, Rock, etc...I LOVE groups like Muse and I think Imogen Heap is an absolutle genius. There are oodles and skads more people I'm not listing, because there isn't enough room. I listen to A LOT of music. But, when I write, I like to follow the lead of all those singer/songwriters who played Greenwich Village in the 60's. Music with a message and a heart.What equipment do you use?
My SWEET 16 Series, 14 Fret Cutaway custom Martin acoustic electric guitar, Yamaha keyboard, ROLAND FP electric piano, bargain basement Fender Stratocaster electric guitar (for the occasional need to jam), cool, carved Djembe drum (when pounding something inanimate becomes a therapeutic necessity), Boss Loop Station for KT Tunstall moments, DigiTech Vocalist 4 for live performances needing a little harmony, my Tascam Portastudio5, and my Tascam 2488. I hope to conquer Pro Tools one day. One can dream. ha!Anything else?
Yeah! Hop over to my website and listen to my tunes! Read my blogs! Follow me on Twitter and Facebook! View my pictures! Watch my videos! Write to me! :-)
www.girl-friday-music.com
Houston, TX
USA
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Comments (10)
Lovely tune and you have a beautiful voice :o)
Lovely
Totally beautiful and such professional vocals. Best I have heard for a long while. Great overall production ~ loved it!
FAR BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL ARTIST VERSION.!! personally the lyrics for this song go A LOT BETTER delivered acoustically one voice.... i love the finger picking at the beginning with a very sincere tone in your voice.. its absolutely fabulous. Thank you for sharing this. :)
Wow.....You have such a pure & beautiful voice.I could listen to you all day long.
Thanks
Chris
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