A native of Greenville, South Carolina, Angela resisted the music of her southern roots until well after college. "What was I thinking?" she laughs, now a hardcore country music enthusiast who counts Emmylou Harris among her musical inspirations and role models. "Country music is so real, so quintessentially American, and as a southerner, so much a part of my heritage," she says. "It was time to acknowledge that."
Angela started singing folk music while a student at Boston's Emerson College. It was in Bean Town that she picked up the guitar, after seeing an Indigo Girls' concert her freshman year. Ready to make the inevitable move to L.A. to carve out her career, Angela transferred to Emerson's L.A. campus and began working as an intern for the TV series Ellen while writing songs and honing her craft.
Ironically, it wasn't until the new millennium that she gave herself completely to America's oldest form of music. "I had started listening to country and loved the earnestness of that music but had only dabbled in it, playing a couple of country songs during shows and writing an original, Cowboy, inspired by an Emmylou Harris song." When performing, it was the country tunes, such as Merle Haggard's Bottle Let Me Down that the audience responded to the most. "Country felt, and still feels, right for me," Angela says. "It's what I'm meant to sing."
Angela has just completed her second studio album, a self-titled collection of original country songs that touches on the great themes of love, loss and renewal - from the woman's point of view. "This is for the single gals out there," she says. Angela's debut release, Love The Danger, gave her a chance to explore her music and its evolution; the new album continues that journey. With a host of talented southern musicians on hand, the album is her most polished and fully realized to date. "The musicians on this album play from the heart, and you can hear that in every note," she says. The album speaks to her affinity for all things southern but also blends in a contemporary hipness from her years of living in Hollywood, a country cocktail that she hopes will aid the album's cross-over potential.
Although she enjoys time in the studio, it is on stage that she is most at home. She's performed in clubs in New England and Southern California and toured with a professional theatre company based out of her native South Carolina. When not recording or performing, Angela devotes time to arts programs in inner city areas and reads to children through the Screen Actors Guild's "Bookpals" program.
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.angelaeasterling.com
Track List:
1. Better Off In Nashville
2. Rescued Me
3. Cowboy
4. Beloved
Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
Angela started singing folk music while a student at Boston's Emerson College. It was in Bean Town that she picked up the guitar, after seeing an Indigo Girls' concert her freshman year. Ready to make the inevitable move to L.A. to carve out her career, Angela transferred to Emerson's L.A. campus and began working as an intern for the TV series Ellen while writing songs and honing her craft.
Ironically, it wasn't until the new millennium that she gave herself completely to America's oldest form of music. "I had started listening to country and loved the earnestness of that music but had only dabbled in it, playing a couple of country songs during shows and writing an original, Cowboy, inspired by an Emmylou Harris song." When performing, it was the country tunes, such as Merle Haggard's Bottle Let Me Down that the audience responded to the most. "Country felt, and still feels, right for me," Angela says. "It's what I'm meant to sing."
Angela has just completed her second studio album, a self-titled collection of original country songs that touches on the great themes of love, loss and renewal - from the woman's point of view. "This is for the single gals out there," she says. Angela's debut release, Love The Danger, gave her a chance to explore her music and its evolution; the new album continues that journey. With a host of talented southern musicians on hand, the album is her most polished and fully realized to date. "The musicians on this album play from the heart, and you can hear that in every note," she says. The album speaks to her affinity for all things southern but also blends in a contemporary hipness from her years of living in Hollywood, a country cocktail that she hopes will aid the album's cross-over potential.
Although she enjoys time in the studio, it is on stage that she is most at home. She's performed in clubs in New England and Southern California and toured with a professional theatre company based out of her native South Carolina. When not recording or performing, Angela devotes time to arts programs in inner city areas and reads to children through the Screen Actors Guild's "Bookpals" program.
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.angelaeasterling.com
Track List:
1. Better Off In Nashville
2. Rescued Me
3. Cowboy
4. Beloved
Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
- COUNTRY: Bluegrass
- COUNTRY: Traditional Country
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