Who is margaret durante

Was it a comfortable experience? It really was, and I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that James Stroud was producing. He was one of the first people I met after moving to Nashville three years ago. We are great friends now, but he has always been such a wonderful collaborator.

He could be too proud to help a newbie like me or be open to any suggestions that I might have, but he was so welcoming to different ideas. His priority is making music the artist intends to make with his James Stroud stamp on it. I love working with him. What was your biggest challenge in the studio? In the studio my biggest challenge was really getting that emotion across on tape. It's really important to me. That's why I've always listened to music growing up, to feel like I wasn't alone in whatever it was that I was feeling.

So it wasn't challenging, it was just what put the most pressure on me. I wanted to make the listener realize these songs are coming from real life experiences, or with the songs I didn't write, I needed to really be as authentic as possible because I chose those songs for a reason. They spoke to me, and I want them to speak to the listener the same way. Describe the music and the lyrical content on the album and EP.

A lot of it is coming of age and love gained and love lost. There's a lot of that. Leaving home … I grew up in Potomac, Maryland. That's where my whole family is.

It's right outside D. We kind of have an identity crisis because we aren't the north or the south -- they call our region mid-Atlantic. But then I went to Clemson, S. That's when I moved to Nashville. So I think listening to the album, it's going to be songs that have been written over those three years. Nashville has so much to offer musically, and there's a lot of maturing that took place in the process of making this album. My heart was broken significantly over the course of these three years, and I also fell in love, too, so those were happy times.

So three years that have been packed with material and experiences that have yielded this album. In , Durante signed to Universal Republic and released a cover of Kings of Leon 's single "Use Somebody" The reviewer Karlie Justus was critical of the choice of a cover for Durante's debut single, saying that she did not think that the cover showed Durante's potential as a singer.

In June , Durante's music video "Maybe Tonight" debuted in Great American Country 's Top 20 Country Countdown videos at 1, making Margaret Durante the first ever artist signed to an independent label to do so in the history of the show. Durante sang guest lead vocals on two songs they were recording for the Disney Channel series Shake It Up. Wikimedia Foundation. Margaret Cho — en Margaret Whiting — c. Margaret Durante. Margaret Durante Margaret Durante Born ca.

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