Interview: Alina Ferraro & Guilherme Ferrari

Photography: Zachary Vague

You're launching your new EP ‘Constellations’, but you've already come out with a track a year ago, right? Did your vision change in the meantime?

The EP is called Constellations, it is named after the first song that I had released called Constellations over a year ago, back in August 2021. And that song was just the beginning of everything. To be honest, I wouldn't be where I am without that song. So that's why I kind of attributed the EP to that song. And in between now and that first song, there's definitely been a lot of changes within myself and just discovering who I am as an artist, as a writer. 'Aimed to Kill' is one of the songs that is on the EP that changed my outlook on writing in general just because of the differences between the songs and the writing, like the edginess is a lot different. There has been a big change in my writing between then and now. So the vision has definitely changed a bit. But I think overall my first EP is a great representation of who I am and the differences in my styles.

Do you isolate when you create? 

I like to be by myself. I like to write at like 3 a.m., all by myself. I get inspired at really random times by the most random things, like watching a show or driving home and all of a sudden I'll get some sort of inspiration and go straight to my piano or guitar and write a song.

How did you get into music? Was it always your dream?

Yes, it's always been a dream of mine ever since I was younger. I was asking for a piano guitar for Christmas, and then one day I did get a piano and a guitar, and I just taught myself how to write or how to play just off of YouTube and online, looking at the chords and everything. So I'm not great, not amazing at playing instruments, but I'm good enough to write songs. 

You covered Rihanna’s 'Stay' and it was very popular on TikTok, did you feel something changed and then you had to start writing your own songs?

I was really sad one day during middle school, so I rewrote 'Stay' by Rihanna, and that's when I kind of realized that I could write songs. So once I learned that I can write lyrics is when I really decided I was going to learn how to play piano and just teach myself the basic chords on a piano and write melodies and lyrics to it. And I realized that songwriting actually came very, very naturally for me, and that’s kind of how I discovered I could write.

Do you ever write for other artists as well?

No, I don't write for any artists. I think it's something I would definitely be interested in doing just because I'm constantly writing and sometimes I even write songs that don't even really feel like me. I write a lot for my imagination so I can write songs that are in different genres or something that just doesn't exactly connect with who I am. So it's definitely something I'd be interested in.

On social media you talk about sexuality, do you think people need leaders?

It's very important to have that kind of representation because growing up for me, discovering who I was I was looking up to a few people who were in the industry and so I realized that once I got comfortable with myself and discovered who I am being on social media, I never wanted to hide it. I always wanted to be very open with it, just so other people can see that it's okay and it's normal, and hopefully spend less time worrying about it. It was one thing that I always wanted to portray online for other people.

And how did you vocalize that in ‘Constellations’? 

I like that people can interpret what they want to interpret. In the song 'Constellations', I'm very open about my sexuality. And 'Same Place' was written about a girl I was in love with, and I'm very open about that, and talking about what these songs are about, even if it's imaginative, and a lot of people have been able to connect with these songs. So to be able to have that connection with others, it's really great.

How do you see yourself in ten years?

A lot can happen in ten years. I think collaborations would be sick. I'm going to release a lot more music within ten years, I have big dreams and big goals, so I want to be as successful as I can be. I want to climb as far to the top as I can.