Interview with maryjo
We had the pleasure of interviewing maryjo over Zoom video!
A 21-year-old singer/songwriter hailing from Cleveland, maryjo has the kind of unforgettable voice made for heart-melting piano ballads. But while her songs show a phenomenal vocal command\u2014often drifting from full-throated belting to a gorgeously fragile delivery inflected with cracks\u2014it took years for the Knoxville-born artist to overcome her fear of singing in front of others. \u201cMy family\u2019s very musical and singing came to me really naturally, but for some reason I became super-private about it after we moved to Cleveland when I was eight,\u201d says maryjo, who also started writing songs as a little girl and took up piano in fourth grade. As she got older, she worked through her shyness by sharing videos on social media, steadily amassing a devoted following that now includes over 1.3 million followers on TikTok. After bringing her powerhouse vocals to the stage on season 19 of \u201cAmerican Idol,\u201d maryjo landed a deal with Atlantic Records and set to work on her debut single, \u201cLove Fools\u201d: a stripped-back but spellbinding ballad featuring the soul-stirring piano work of two-time Academy of Country Music Award-winner Gordon Mote.
With more new music on the way, maryjo arrived at the breathtaking emotion of \u201cLove Fools\u201d by staying true to her instincts. \u201cWhen I first went into sessions, the sound we were coming up with was very much like cookie-cutter pop,\u201d she recalls, naming Elvis Presley and Julia Michaels among her main inspirations. \u201cFinally I had to stop and say, \u2018This isn\u2019t what I\u2019m supposed to be doing.\u2019 I took a step back and asked myself why I was trying for something that didn\u2019t feel right, and because of that we honed in on a sound that feels like me: something I can put so much emotion into when I\u2019m singing, so that I can give the audience something real to connect to.\u201d
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