![]() Sara Kays: It started with me liking to sing, and singing with my friends. How did you get started with music, and writing songs? She also tells the fascinating story of how she’s had success with TikTok.ĭK: I read that you’re from the city of Carmel, Indiana. She tells how she got started with her music, and she discusses the making of her new EP. We are pleased to do this new Q&A interview with Sara Kays. Then later in the fall, she will be opening for Cavetown for shows in the UK. Joy, and then she will be headlining solo shows in the U.S. She will be playing shows on the west coast opening for folk/rock band Mt. Here’s the video of Sara Kays’ new single “Struck ByĬurrently, Kays is looking forward to playing live and touring. Camera Shy features such personal, sensitive songs as “Smaller Than This,” “Chosen Last,” “Home For The Summer” and “No Matter The Season.” And Struck By Lightning contains such highlights as the title cut “Struck By Lightning” (which features UK artist Cavetown), “Remember That Night?” and “Backseat Rider.” ![]() Martinez produced both EPs, and co-wrote several of the songs. Kays and Martinez have now teamed up to record two EPs: Camera Shy (released in October 2020) and Struck By Lightning (in August 2021). The duo began collaborating together, and they hit it off so well that Kays decided to remain in Nashville, and they continue to work together. She also has an appealing, expressive singing voice.įor Kays, a key moment occurred while attending college, when she met Nashville producer/writer Steven Martinez. She mostly wrote songs in her bedroom, and she developed a way of telling stories with her songs that is fresh and imaginative. At first, she would sing cover songs, and then during high school she gained experience as a performer by busking and playing local gigs.Īlong with her performing, Kays became skilled at writing songs. It’s been really great so far, and I’m excited to start sharing more of what I’ve been working on since then.Here’s an excerpt of our interview with Sara Kays, who tells how posting videos on TikTok has helped promote her songs and given her good feedback.īorn and raised in the city of Carmel, Indiana, Kays fell in love with singing at a young age, and she later learned to play guitar. “Since that was released, I’ve felt creatively inspired to find new things to write about-and also new ways to talk about the same topics. The incredible storytelling in a lot of their songs inspired me from the start to be more creative in my writing.”Ĭamera Shy signaled a watershed moment for her in many ways, most of all the ability “to write about a few very personal topics for the first time,” she observes. With Mayday Parade, I remember being emotionally connected to so many of their songs growing up. “His sound really stood out to me among everything else I was hearing at the time. Sheeran became an early, and immediate, influence in her childhood after hearing him on the radio. “My listening taste has always been pretty all over the place, but I think that comes from just loving a great or well-written song,” she says. Her debut EP, A House Too Big, soon followed, and the follow-up Camera Shy arrived two years later.Įtched throughout her songwriting, Kays knows what it takes to craft heartfelt lyrics spun with velvet, tight-knit arrangements that simply elevate the already high-flying material. ![]() ![]() Adventurous and creatively hungry, she began busking in small restaurants in high school and released her first single “Rich Boy” in 2018. Kays, whose influences run the gamut from Ed Sheeran to Mayday Parade, started playing guitar when she was 12.
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