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.
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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. What has been your biggest challenge as a performing artist? Have you been able to overcome that challenge? If so, how? My biggest challenge as a performing artist is dealing with anxiety in a band setting. I am incredibly comfortable playing solo in any given setting, but throw my band behind me, and I get anxious. I do still struggle with this, not as badly as when I first started playing out with a band, but thankfully I have very patient and professional bandmates that
