BRIANNE MCFADDEN

TITLE: "Memory"

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Songwriting is an amazing process of recovery for me. I take life situations and use my ability to write, my love for music, and love for singing to express to the listener my feelings and passions. I wrote Memory years after my Grandfather’s death. It took years to write because I had to go through all the steps of losing someone to have a clear perspective of what I wanted the song to relay to the listener. To express all the deep emotions I was dealing with: sadness, the memories, laughter, and the joy of a reunion in the next life.

God, relationships, nature, personal battles and victories, family and friends, all of these things inspire my song writing. To have a close emotional tie to something or someone allows me to create a song that I can pass to the listener, and hopefully cause an emotional connection for them to my song, or spark a memory in the listener that connects him or her to the song.