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From the award-winning gospel ballad "Pray For Rain" (featuring Blind Boys of Alabama) to the alt-pop single "Silly Silly Silly," East Nashville indie artist, Kristen Englenz, makes wide ranging American music that blurs the boundaries between genre and generation.
It's a sound every bit as diverse as its creator. A classically trained pianist, Englenz studied the compositions of Chopin before adding John Coltrane, the Rolling Stones, Lucinda Williams, and Howling Wolf to her list of favorites. She focused on Fine Art in college — an education that taught her to combine traditional techniques with personal interpretation — and began writing original songs in her dorm room, taking inspiration from unlikely places. Even the birds outside her art studio seemed to have something to teach her. Englenz fell in love with their melodies and learned to repeat them with her own voice, eventually winning the International Bird Call Imitation competition in 2009.
Englenz's voice soon brought her to Nashville, where she became a fixture of the city's songwriting community. Her full-length debut, ingénue, produced by Wilco co-founder Ken Coomer was released in 2020.
Now, "Silly Silly Silly" marks the latest evolution of her songwriting. It's the brightest, boldest pop song in her catalog, laced with sparking synthesizers, a killer vocal hook, and a percussive pulse built for the dance floor, produced by fellow East Nashville artist, Aaron Lee Tasjan.
It's a sound every bit as diverse as its creator. A classically trained pianist, Englenz studied the compositions of Chopin before adding John Coltrane, the Rolling Stones, Lucinda Williams, and Howling Wolf to her list of favorites. She focused on Fine Art in college — an education that taught her to combine traditional techniques with personal interpretation — and began writing original songs in her dorm room, taking inspiration from unlikely places. Even the birds outside her art studio seemed to have something to teach her. Englenz fell in love with their melodies and learned to repeat them with her own voice, eventually winning the International Bird Call Imitation competition in 2009.
Englenz's voice soon brought her to Nashville, where she became a fixture of the city's songwriting community. Her full-length debut, ingénue, produced by Wilco co-founder Ken Coomer was released in 2020.
Now, "Silly Silly Silly" marks the latest evolution of her songwriting. It's the brightest, boldest pop song in her catalog, laced with sparking synthesizers, a killer vocal hook, and a percussive pulse built for the dance floor, produced by fellow East Nashville artist, Aaron Lee Tasjan.
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