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She\u2019s been making music for fourteen years but has only recently turned 23.\xa0

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Alana Springsteen is taking the world by storm, the Grammys comparing her perceptive storytelling and pop-country music to a young Taylor Swift.\xa0

She released her first album in late 2021, and just this year released her deeply personal three-part album \u2018Twenty Something.\u2019\xa0\xa0

The album is made up of three six song instalments: \u2018Messing It Up\u2019, \u2018Figuring It Out\u2019, and \u2018Getting It Right,\u2019 the full album containing eighteen songs total.\xa0

Springsteen told Newstalk ZB\u2019s Mike Hosking that she\u2019s a big signs person, with eighteen being her lucky number.\xa0

\u201cIt\u2019s just kind of popped up throughout my entire life,\u201d she said.\xa0\xa0

\u201cMy birthday is the 18th, my parents got married on the 18th, and we\u2019ll see it in the most random place.\u201d\xa0

Keeping in line, Springsteen released the album on August 18th. Eighteenth of the eighth.\xa0\xa0

\u201cI just tried to pack as much good luck into it as I could.\u201d\xa0

Not only is Springsteen a big signs person, but she\u2019s also a big manifester.\xa0

\u201cI always had huge dreams when I was a kid,\u201d she told Hosking.\xa0

\u201cI just had this blind faith that it was what I was meant to do.\u201d\xa0

Springsteen picked up the guitar when she was seven, started writing songs when she was nine, and started co-writing music with industry heavyweights not long after.\xa0\xa0

She told Hosking that it was the first time she found people that spoke the same language that she did.\xa0

\u201cPeople were calling their friends being like, \u2018you\u2019ve got to come meet this girl,\u2019 and it was just such an organic way of finding community.\u201d\xa0

Despite her youth Springsteen has already made songs with a variety of artists including Mitchell Tenpenny and Brad Paisley, and toured with Luke Bryan.\xa0

\u201cI learned so, so much just from watching him,\u201d She told Hosking.\xa0\xa0

\u201cThe way he interacts with the crowd, he\u2019s so fan focused.\u201d\xa0

Community is a key part of music, country music in particular, and Nashville is where the roots of this community are planted.\xa0

Springsteen has performed twice at what she calls the \u2018Holy ground\u2019, the Grand Ole Opry, telling Hosking that it\u2019s hard to find words to describe the experience.\xa0

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t really hit you until you step in that circle. Until you\u2019re thinking about everybody that\u2019s come before you, and you feel like you\u2019re officially part of the country music family.\u201d\xa0

Joining the family brought with it advice from the older generations, and for Alana Springsteen, Kenny Chesney had some words of wisdom.\xa0

\u201cJust do it your own way, let it come to you.\u201d\xa0

\u201cThe biggest thing he told me that stuck with me is not to be impatient, you know? He\u2019s like, take your time.\u201d\xa0

She says she has to constantly remind herself that a slow rise builds a lasting foundation.\xa0

\u201cThe most important thing to me is to have a long career and do this for the rest of my life.\u201d\xa0

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