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This segment features artists who have submitted their tracks/videos to She Makes Music. If you would like to be featured here then please send an e-mail to [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you!

itcallsme i

‘Ghost’ is the cinematic, dreamy and emotional debut single from the solo-project itcallsme i. With roots from the west coast of Sweden and the islands of the Pacific ocean, itcallsme i puts the melodies and lyrics at center focus. ‘Ghost’ pushes the boundaries of how close and intimate a song can be. “Dealing with loss and mental health issues, writing ‘Ghost’ has given meaning and worked in a therapeutic way for me, explains the artist. “And if ‘Ghost’ could do that for someone else, that would be amazing.” Listen below.

itcallsme i · Ghost

Maddy Hicks

Originally from upstate New York, Maddy Hicks has been performing her self-written music for almost a decade. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 2018 to pursue a career as a songwriter and artist while studying at Belmont University. She writes about the twenty-something experience with a unique sense of rhythm and rhyme beneath powerful melodies. In December of 2019, Maddy released her debut album The Bliss You Missed. Since then, she has transitioned into more of a pop sound. She has been releasing singles and EPs throughout 2021 building up to the release of her album Reclaiming on September 24. Album track 'Blazer Days' is a “song about learning how to love yourself through loving someone else,” says Maddy. “It can be terrifying to fully open up and be yourself around someone new, but once you're accepted for who you are, it's incredibly validating. Seeing yourself through someone else's eyes can help affirm your identity, and that's the feeling I wanted to highlight with this song." Listen below.

Manuka

Manuka is an Indie/Folk singer-songwriter from Leeds, UK. She has just released her new single ‘Tribal Man’. With an indie/folk tonality and powerfulness that is sultry and alluring, she invites a different listening experience entirely. ‘Tribal Man’ was inspired by a fantasy of being truly happy whilst living with nature (and not exploiting it). “This song acts as a self-reminder, of my own aspirations to nurture and to build a space where nature is thriving around me,” she explains. “I do tend to dream big!! Right now I am adjusting my way of living taking little steps to start this path. The reason for this song, or should I say the moment of realisation towards this way of life began when I was at a breaking point in my life. Working two jobs, overwhelmed trying to promote my previous songs living out the life people expected from me. It just got too much. One day I forced myself to get out of the house as I was at that tipping point of really losing myself. I spent time in some woodlands near my home and sat on the grass in serene silence. All I could hear was the stream, the birds, and the wind. I felt that everything I had been carrying in my mind for the last several months had been lifted. As a result of this, a spark of creativity hit me so I rushed home straight to the guitar and wrote this song. A spontaneous piece at the beginning but over the years it has grown into the song today. Performing this song live has had such an uplifting experience creating a very relaxing vibe in a culture that's filled with overwhelming anxious thoughts.” Listen below.

Iris Marlowe

Iris Marlowe is a singer-songwriter from Chicago, Illinois that blends her love of 60's music with modern day influences to create music to get lost in the moment to. Originally from a small farm town, she developed her taste in music by listening to Fleetwood Mac, The Beach Boys, and Nancy Sinatra. These sounds stayed with her throughout her songwriting career. After graduating college, she rediscovered her love for the guitar and took classes, private lessons, and collaborated with local musicians. Learning technical skills and music theory gave her the passion and push to create her own music. Songwriting gave her a platform to create art out of her experiences and Iris has since written over 1,000 songs and continues to refine her craft. Her new song 'Home' is inspired by the emotions that come with moving on from where you grew up and the acceptance that comes from time and distance. Listen below.

Drew Now

Drew Now is a Canadian independent pop singer-songwriter living and writing music in Nashville, Tennessee. She was formerly known by her given name, "Leah Mathies" and released her first EP at 16. “Chasing a music dream is tough. I moved to the US, had a lot of ups and downs and worked with a variety of different producers and co-writers,” says Drew. “I got scouted through a Bruce Springsteen youtube cover in 2018 for America's Got Talent and was on Season 13 through to the Judge Cut Rounds. My dad was diagnosed with advanced colorectal cancer shortly before the pandemic began. The worry and strain changed everything and left me with a more clear sense of who I am. I changed my artist name to "Drew Now", borrowing my father's name of Drew. And I started releasing new music again a few months ago. I like to sing about the elephants in our rooms. Her fun new track ‘Money’ was produced by Sarin Kuruvilla in Nashville. The gist of the backstory: “I fell in love with a hard working guy in Nashville who found it hard to believe I wasn't one more girl just after his money. So I had to tell him otherwise. Let the music begin!” Listen below.

Drew Now · Money

Tilly Bushay

Hailing from East London, singer-songwriter Tilly Bushay is true homegrown talent. Writing from an early age and being the daughter of a lover's rock producer, it was inevitable that her writing would eventually evolve into music. Over the years, Tilly continued to hone her music skills before eventually making her music debut with the track ‘Baby Bomb’ in 2016. She has been writing with and for other artist and music campaigns and is now back releasing her own work again. Late 2020, Tilly released ‘Surrey Quays’, the first stop on her British love story with a killer on location video. Tilly now invites her listeners further down south and reveals the next stop with a track titled ‘Sutton’. ‘Sutton’ is an upbeat, flirtatious, summery track which combines Tilly's musical influences R&B, Reggae and Afro-Pop. Listen below.

Nina Kazourian

Nina Kazourian is a French musician based in Berlin. Songwriting has been in her life from the moment she could hold a pen but it was always kind of a hidden thing. “I think I didn't allow myself to be a singer and a songwriter,” she says. “I am a classically trained violist and playing in orchestras seemed to be the serious thing to do. Which I still do! But being on stage with my own music and share it with an audience is what I live for. It's taking more and more space in my life and I'm so grateful for it.” She has recently released new song ‘Fire’. “This song is about that particular winter, when I decided to go my own way, travel through layers of skin and doubt into wilderness,” Nina explains. “It is a journey to finding one’s beast and letting it thrive. It tells the story of becoming. I wrote it whilst spending an Erasmus semester in Stockholm many years ago. While being there, I left everything I knew: a long and established relationship, quit my cultural anthropology masters in order to study music, decided not to return live in Lyon, rented a viola, met musicians and played hours on end with them, bought my tenor guitar, wrote more songs than I ever did before, danced in the woods and near lakes with wonderful friends under the midnight sun, started recovering from the loss of the relationship I thought would last until my old age. Years later, it was recorded during the first lockdown at the Pool of Invention studio in Passau, Germany. It is part of my debut album that will be released at the end of November.” Listen below.