The Orange Magazine - Vol. 20

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Eryn Bent

The Eryn Bent Show When did you first get into music? What was your inspiration I started singing at a very early age, and was inspired by Celine Dion, Heart and Disney songs when I was very young. In my teenage years, I started taking instruction and got more seriously into singing and performing at age 13 and was heavily inspired by Broadway musicals, most especially The Phantom of the Opera. How has your music evolved since you first began creating music? When I first started writing, I was a teenager and really wrote about the rollercoaster of emotions one feels as a growing teen, so my earliest songs were not very well structured but were filled with just pure naive emotion and teen angst. I try to put more thought and effort and work into the songs I write now, and go about writing in a more deliberate way. My sound has evolved from a folk/pop sound to a country/americana sound over the last 15 years as such. Which ingredient do you think makes you special and unique as a performing artist in an industry overflowing with new faces and ideas? I do hold tight to being an autobiographical songwriter, but I feel my uniqueness is in my live performance. I’m incredibly passionate about the delivery of my songs, and singing them to people is my absolute favorite thing to do, and I feel that it shows in my performance. I get lost in it, and there’s a certain magic that the language of music only has.

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