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Belmont University Q & A with Erin Pearson

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Belmont University Q & A with Erin Pearson

ARTICLE LINK – Meet Alumna Erin Pearson

Belmont University’s College of Education did this lovely Q & A interview with me about what’s like be a Nashville musician and music educator, and the new album FIRE.

You can read the full interview at Belmont’s website here.  

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New Album Release

10.20.24

So excited to announce the release of my first full length album FIRE.

FIRE is about facing the real things in life: how we feel and how we move forward. It is emotionally raw and a little of a mixed genre retro throwback

Listen to the album anywhere you listen to music or preview the album here. 

Quick Links: Spotify & Apple Music

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My Influential Albums #12

EVA CASSIDY – SONGBIRD

12 of 12 my most formative albums. This was a fun challenge. Today’s album is Eva Cassidy’s Songbird. I love her for so many reasons, including her refusal to only do one genre, her mad guitar skills and that oh so expressive vocal phrasing. 🥰. Many of the songs from this album are my Eva influenced versions, even in my own set list.

One thing to note about Eva Cassidy is that she died of cancer in her early 30s and she was largely unknown until after her death. That to me, is probably just as tragic as a person being taken too early!

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My Most Influential Albums #11

EVITA (movie soundtrack) – ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER & TIM RICE, ft. MADONNA

For my #11 of 12 most influential albums I’m going with the Evita soundtrack, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice with the Madonna performances. I knew Webber & Rice’s music before this movie/album, but particularly my obsession with baselines and orchestration and creative application to music attached to film/acting/pop.

Also, don’t hate me- but I didn’t fully appreciate Madonna or begin to understand her work until she did this project. Then I dug into her music. The mixing of genres and personalities, the mash up of energy and types of sound articulations – to me – makes this amazing in the final product. Much the way I do my life. I like a solid mix of all that is different. Makes the best colors.

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My Most Influential Albums #10

NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS – DANNY ELFMAN

10 of my 12 most influential albums I’d have to say is Danny Elfman’s Nightmare Before Christmas score to the Tim Burton film.

I have to admit, that I NEVER saw this movie until 3 years ago. And when I did. I watched and listened until this album is in my DNA.

I have listened to this score a million times since then, the magic of Danny Elfman just blows my mind and is the future reference track for the musicals floating around in my mind. Just GENIUS. This whole score causes me instant laugher, the serious nature of the score combined with these insane characters and dramatic lyrics. Instant happiness.

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My Most Influential Albums #8

SARAH VAUGHN – MISTY

Album #8 of 12 most Influential albums shaping musical taste. Mine today is Sarah Vaughn’s Misty, I heard it only as a single when I learned about it and its a big part of reason I sing jazz now which is why I didn’t include a full album with it.

Naive me, when I heard it I was simply looking for a recording of a song my music teacher had picked for me to sing for a recital. I remember hearing her and thinking, oh man, she’s fun. So many more phrasing intricacies that I had been used to hearing in other classical singers. I remember thinking, “well if Sarah Vaughn did it and got away with that, then so can I. Ha.” Only to really later she wasn’t a classical singer 🤣. Whoops.

So so much soul in her music. And this particular record was produced by the great Quincy Jones, who has influenced a ton of music that I’ve loved in my adult years. Imagine that I didn’t even know who he was until a few years ago and I’ve been listening to track after track that he’s produced all this time. The song, the voice, the producer. Misty is it.

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My Most Influential Albums #7

SHEDAISY – WHOLE SHEBANG

Influential album #7 of 12 for me…I know every word, melody and every harmony. It was my junior and senior year theme album.

I remember attending a soccer camp where I was dreaming about playing college ball while listening to this album under the Wisteria in the garden on my soon to be college campus. There was something about this album that inspired hope of the future in me. Light hearted and positive “life is gonna be good ahead” vibes.

Ah. What a time.

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My Most Influential Albums #6

CELINE DION – ALL THE WAY…A DECADE OF SONG

Let’s be honest. I just wanted to BE her. Album #6 of 12 my most formational album influences. I’m going to go with Celine. Me and comp albums. HA. But even though I had every album Celine put out, this had all my favorites on it.

Including a duet I sang with my dad my senior year in high school (my senior recital), originally sung by Celine & Frank Sinatra called All the Way. Such memories.

I also loved performing I’m Your Angel, It’s All Coming Back to Me Now, Then You Look At Me and I’m pretty sure I sang That’s the Way it is for my college audition. HAHAHAHAHAHAH. Total Celine fan over here.

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