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Essentially every person’s life has been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout. We’ve had to adjust our lives, change our priorities and evaluate what’s most important.
For Capital Region native and resident Glory Addie, the time away from the salon she owns prompted her to finally pursue her dream.
“Covid made me realize I wasn’t doing what I wanted to do while I had the chance,” Addie said. “I own a salon and while it was closed, I didn’t miss it.
“I’ve always been interested in making art and jewelry and making songs,” she added. “Covid kind of kicked me into gear.”
It turns out, that kick into gear was all she needed. After over a decade of writing songs and dabbling in performance, she hunkered down and recorded her debut album. Addie released “1127 Gr33n3” in December, a genre-blending project that could best be described as a pop record.
To bring “1127 Gr33ne” into being, Addie spent a couple months in Nashville recording with friends. Not satisfied with the final product, when she returned home she sought out local collaborators to bring her long-gestating vision to life.
“Sometimes I hear something in my head, but I’m not talented enough to do it myself,” Addie explained. “It was a matter of taking the time and finding the right people to create with. Nashville had some of the right people, but I wasn’t entirely happy with how the songs come out. Then I came home and reworked it with different people.
“People say to me, ‘What’s your style of music?,’” she continued. “I say, ‘Space cowgirl? What, that isn’t a style?’ It’s kind of whatever style I want. People just want you to sound a certain way and that isn’t me.”
Addie’s been drawn to music since she was a teenager. She wrote her first song around the age of 16. Those early efforts were cathartic and less focused on finding an audience.
“I didn’t really think I’d share them until I was in my 20s,” she said. “Music was more for me about getting out my emotions and coping with things that were happening in my life.”
At the age of 18, she studied at a music-andarts program in Brisbane, Australia and recorded her first song and gave her first performances. She recalls being “pretty bad” and not feeling satisfied or comfortable as an artist.
Despite that, Addie didn’t give up on music. She regularly wrote songs and lyrics and about five years ago, decided she wanted to really try her hand at becoming a recording artist. So when the time and opportunity to get into recording arose last year, she was determined to take advantage of it.
The original plan was to release a song and video per month last year, culminating in the release of her first album, but COVID threw a wrench into that. Instead, the goal became completing the album and having it out by her 30th birthday. That effort was a success and “1127 Gr33n3” made it out by that milestone date.
With her first album completed and out in the world, Addie is planning for a creatively fruitful 2021. She has a couple music videos completed and ready for release. And she’s diving right back into recording.
“The goal is to keep going, have another album in March and another one in June,” Addie said. “The songs are already kind of formed. I have hundreds of songs, some of them are older or aren’t who I am now, but they’re still a part of me and I want to get them out.”
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