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I Posted A Video A Day For Almost Two Months And Was Hardly Sleeping, But I Think It Really Pushed Me To Give Music Everything I Had In Me. I Knew It Was A Chance I Couldn't Miss. The Funny Thing Is I Never Saw My Music Video When It Aired During The Super Bowl Because As Soon As I Heard My Song Start I Was In Tears For The Next 10 Minutes! The Most Amazing Thing That Came Out Of All Of This, However, Was The Support That Had Developed Online. Without The People That Came Back Day After Day To Vote For Me, I'd Be Nowhere, And I Really Owe It All To Them.

Being Hapa, Or More Specifically, Half-japanese Half-euro Mutt (english, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, French, Welsh, German. . .in Case You Were Wondering), Has Definitely Helped Shape Who I Am. It's Very Cool To Get To Identify And Learn About All These Unique Cultures And I Think It's Helped Put The World In Perspective.

The First Video I Ever Made, Announcing 'crash The Super Bowl,' I Did About Fifty Takes And I Wanted To Die. It Was Awful.

The People At The Label Were Great But At The End Of The Day Our Visions Didn't Match Up And I Knew I Had To Do It My Way. The Potential Success That Could Come With Signing With A Major Label Didn't Quite Outweigh How Important It Was For Me To Make My Music The Way I Knew It Needed To Be Made. It Was A Hard Decision To Make, But I've Never Regretted It For A Second And It's Only Become More Clear To Me After Making And Releasing Stairwells That It Was The Right One.

I've Loved Singing Since Forever. Whether It Was With My Sisters While Cleaning The Kitchen, Putting Shows On For My Stuffed Animals, Writing Songs About My Stuffed Animals, Starting An A Capella Group With My Cousins While On Vacation, Or Awkwardly Singing Along To Karaoke Tracks Alone In My Bedroom - Singing Always Found A Way Into My Life.