© Daniel Moss
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By B&TF
On January 7, I went to New York for The L Word
premiere of season 4. Right before that event Showtime introduced
an exciting new promo video “Magic Tree” with
the clips from the new season, and when I found out that the
singer Kirsten Price would be a part of the entertainment
program, I was very excited to meet a new face behind some
The L Word music.
For those who don’t know much about Kirsten, I would
like first to tell a little about her before launching the
interview that I had with her after the evening was almost
over.
From Kirsten Price’s biography that can be found on
her MySpace page and on her Official website, we can learn
that “the young singer-songwriter, producer, multi -instrumentalist
was born in Islington, an inner city district of London.”
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Her mother introduced her to the American heritage songs and Kirsten
learned about music since she was very young. As she said in her
biography, “I played piano basically as soon as I could touch
it. I started writing actual songs when I was about 11. Before I
could play I would make up songs to sing along with the old Beethoven
and Tchaikovsky records that my dad played when I was a toddler.
I'd sing along with the melody lines and make up nonsense lyrics.
I was one of those kids that was always singing, you couldn't shut
me up.”
Influenced by the music of the 1960’s and the sounds of Jimi
Hendrix and Janet Joplin, Price moved from London to San Francisco
where she “lived in the garage with a recording studio next
door. "Basically," she recalls, "I amassed various
instruments in my loft space and I waited tables and made music."
Kirsten found living in San Francisco "a little bit like being
an animal from the desert trying to survive somewhere where it's
very wet. I missed being in a more chaotic metropolitan city similar
to the one I'd grown up in.”
Her passion for music finally brought her to New York right before
September 11, 2001 and as she continued in her biography, “I
wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in the world if you paid
me … I found a racial and social mix in this neighborhood
that reminded me of where I grew up. People from all kinds of different
walks of life and backgrounds are very comfortable with each other
here.”
After writing songs and working on building her own recording studio,
Kirsten found producer Fred Sargolini and, in January 2006, began
working on her debut album, which is coming out in April and will
include her metaphorical and catchy “Magic Tree” song
and “All Right”.
When I met with Kirsten after her performance at the premiere party,
she was very kind to talk to me for a few minutes as we shared some
of our personal stories. Here’s what Kirsten Price had to
say about her video and why she watches The L Word.
CONTINUE TO INTERVIEW>>
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