Aslyn

Last updated

Aslyn
AslynGeorgiaTheBridges041406.jpg
Aslyn performing in 2006
Background information
Birth nameHeather Mitchell
Born (1980-09-21) September 21, 1980 (age 43)
Chiefland, Florida
Origin Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Occupation(s)Musician
Instrument(s)vocals, piano, keyboards
Labels Capitol
Website www.aslyn.net

Heather "Aslyn" Mitchell Nash (born September 21, 1980) [1] is an American pop singer and songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia. She released two full-length albums, Lemon Love and The Dandelion Sessions , as well as a 4-disc EP. She is also the sister of three members of the band Georgia.

Contents

Early years

Aslyn was born in west Florida and raised in Chiefland, Florida, outside of Gainesville. At the age of seven, she began taking piano lesson Immediately submersing herself into the music scene, she did everything she could to gain exposure to live performing: entering talent contests, singing at weddings, and performing at church. [2]

Upon graduating from high school, Aslyn attended Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee and received her college degree. She then followed her dream of performing, which led her to Atlanta, Georgia, where she lived on various people's couches for a while as she performed throughout the town.

During this phase in her life, Aslyn purchased her first car with saved money. She referred to this car as a "lemon", and it eventually inspired the title track of her debut album, "Lemon Love". She briefly dated Butch Walker, mentioning him in her song "Golden" as "Number Five."[ citation needed ]

Musical career

While performing on a nightly basis, Aslyn began to immerse herself in many different genres of music. Many artists influenced her including Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Earth Wind & Fire, and Queen.

Beginning in 2002, Aslyn began to compose many of the songs that would be the basis for Lemon Love. Record companies in Los Angeles began to show interest in Aslyn's music, inspiring her to begin searching for a record label.

Aslyn performed a very personal song for Capitol Records entitled "493–1023" which speaks about her father's job loss and ensuing loss of family stability. Upon hearing the song, the record label signed her immediately. [3]

While preparing to record and write the songs for her debut CD, Aslyn requested to work with producer Guy Chambers. She had become interested in Chambers' work after hearing the heavily European sound on many of Robbie Williams' albums. [4] Chambers produced eight of the twelve tracks on Lemon Love . For the remaining four, Aslyn worked with a California-based producer, Eric Valentine.

Two singles were released off the album: "Be the Girl" and "Gotta Get Over You". The first single that peaked at #35 [5] on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Aslyn's sound as a performer has been classified as more of an "independent pop/alternative singer". Her single "Be the Girl" was featured in an episode of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County on MTV."Be the Girl" also got featured in the "Bratz: Rock Angelz" video game.

After the release of her album, Aslyn began to tour the United States which such headliners as Ryan Cabrera, Better Than Ezra, Gavin DeGraw, The Click Five, and Chris Isaak. [6] The album peaked at #36 on the Billboard Top Heatseeker chart. [5]

In January 2008, Aslyn released an EP entitled The Grand Garden EP . The EP features 27 songs divided up into four parts or phases, most of which were recorded between Lemon Love and The Dandelion Sessions . The following year, she toured with Toby Lightman.

Her second album, The Dandelion Sessions , was released on August 1, 2009 on iTunes. Aslyn also performed at the benefit Zac Brown Band and Friends Concert on October 30, 2009 to help raise money for Athens' historic Georgia Theatre which burned down four months earlier on June 19. [7]

In 2011, Aslyn released a live album Five Live on digital services on February 14. The physical version of the release was made available on May 14, 2012 through Amazon's Burn-On-Demand service. [8]

Aslyn joined singing on the Get $leazy tour with Kesha in 2011 [9] in addition to also appearing on an episode of Victorious with the band. [10]

Later that year, Aslyn contributed vocals and co-wrote some songs on Kalen Nash's Ukred album which was released in 2012.

Aslyn formed the duo DEGA with her husband, Kalen Nash in 2013. [11] They are currently touring festivals and select tour dates. [12] [13] [14] Their debut album DEGA is set for release in 2017. [15] [16]

Personal life

Aslyn married musician Kalen Nash on October 15, 2011. [17] [18] [19] [20] Her brothers were in a country rock band called 'Georgia'. They were signed with Atlantic Records from 2007 to 2010.

Discography

Albums

YearAlbum Top Heatseeker Label
2005 Lemon Love 36 Capitol
2009 The Dandelion Sessions –Lemonade Records
2011Five Live–Lemonade Records
2017DEGA–Lemonade Records

Singles

YearSingle Adult Top 40 Album
2005"Be The Girl"26 Lemon Love
"Gotta Get Over You"–
2009"Me & You & Daisies"– The Dandelion Sessions
2016"Right Type of Lover" (as DEGA)–DEGA
2017"Trying to Drive" (with Zac Brown Band)– Welcome Home

EPs

2008: The Grand Garden EP

Tours

2017

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leigh Nash</span> American singer (born 1976)

Leigh Anne Bingham Nash is an American singer and songwriter who is the lead vocalist for the Christian alternative rock band Sixpence None the Richer and was also a member of Fauxliage. Her debut solo album, Blue on Blue, was released in August 2006. Nash has released two other solo albums in 2011 and 2015. Nash has two Grammy nominations: "Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal" in 1999 and "Best Rock Gospel Album" in 1998. In July 2023, it was announced that Nash would be joining 10,000 Maniacs as their new lead singer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stephen Stills</span> American musician (born 1945)

Stephen Arthur Stills is an American musician, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Manassas. As both a solo act and member of three successful bands, Stills has combined record sales of over 35 million albums. He was ranked number 28 in Rolling Stone's 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and number 47 in the 2011 list. Stills became the first person to be inducted twice on the same night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. According to Neil Young, "Stephen is a genius".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Blonde Redhead</span> American alternative rock band

Blonde Redhead is an American alternative rock band composed of Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace that formed in New York City in 1993. The band's earliest albums were noted for their noise rock influences, though their sound evolved by the early 2000s with the releases of Misery is a Butterfly (2004) and 23 (2007), which both incorporated elements of dream pop, shoegaze and other genres. They have released ten studio albums and have toured internationally.

Mary Margaret O'Hara is a Canadian singer-songwriter, actress and composer. She is best known for the album Miss America, released in 1988. She released two albums and an EP under her own name, and remains active as a live performer, as a contributor to compilation albums and as a guest collaborator on other artists' albums.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Metric (band)</span> Canadian indie rock band

Metric is a Canadian indie rock band founded in 1998 in Toronto, Ontario. The band consists of Emily Haines, James Shaw, Joshua Winstead and Joules Scott-Key. The band started in 1998 as a duo formed by Haines and Shaw with the name "Mainstream". After releasing an EP titled Mainstream EP, they changed the band's name to Metric.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Avett Brothers</span> American folk-rock band

The Avett Brothers are an American folk rock band from Concord, North Carolina. The band is made up of two brothers, Scott Avett and Seth Avett along with Bob Crawford and Joe Kwon. Mike Marsh (drums), Tania Elizabeth (fiddle) and Bonnie Avett-Rini (piano) are touring members of the band.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Flyleaf (band)</span> American rock band

Flyleaf is an American rock band formed in Belton, Texas, in 2002. The band has charted on mainstream rock, Christian pop, and Christian metal charts. They performed around the US in 2003 before releasing their eponymous debut album, Flyleaf, in 2005. The album went platinum after selling more than one million copies. Flyleaf released their second album, Memento Mori, in 2009, which debuted and peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard charts.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dia Frampton</span> American musician

Dia Frampton is an American musician, singer and songwriter. Frampton is the lead singer of the band Meg & Dia, was the runner-up in the inaugural season of The Voice, and is perhaps most known for her presence and collaborations in the EDM world, having worked with DJs such as Illenium and Kaskade among many others.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kate Nash</span> English singer-songwriter

Kate Marie Nash is an English singer-songwriter and actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bombay Bicycle Club</span> English indie rock band

Bombay Bicycle Club is an English indie rock band from Crouch End, London, consisting of Jack Steadman, Jamie MacColl, Suren de Saram, and Ed Nash. They are guitar-fronted and have experimented with different genres, including folk, electronica, world music and indie rock.

The Grand Garden EP is a 2008 EP recorded by singer-songwriter Aslyn and was released on Independent. The EP contains 28 songs, most of which were recorded between Aslyn's debut album, Lemon Love and her second album, The Dandelion Sessions. It is divided up into four parts or 'phases', each one having seven different songs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tasseomancy (band)</span> Canadian experimental band

Tasseomancy is a Canadian experimental band from Toronto formed by twin sisters Sari and Romy Lightman.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Orianthi</span> Australian musician, singer and songwriter (born 1985)

Orianthi Penny Panagaris, known mononymously as Orianthi, is an Australian guitarist, singer and songwriter who rehearsed in 2009 with Michael Jackson in preparation for his This Is It concert series, and performed with Alice Cooper's touring band. Her 2009 debut single "According to You" peaked at No. 3 in Japan, No. 8 in Australia and No. 17 in the US; her second album, Believe, received a worldwide release in late 2009. The same year, she was named one of the "12 Greatest Female Electric Guitarists" by Elle magazine. She also won the "2010 Breakthrough Guitarist of the Year" award hosted by Guitar International magazine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alessi's Ark</span> English singer-songwriter

Alessi's Ark is the musical project of Alessi Laurent-Marke, an English singer-songwriter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kesha</span> American singer (born 1987)

Kesha Rose Sebert, known mononymously as Kesha, is an American singer and songwriter. Kesha's first major success came in early 2009 when she was featured on rapper Flo Rida's number-one single, "Right Round".

"Dinosaur" is a song by American recording artist and songwriter Kesha, taken from her debut studio album Animal (2010). The song was written by Kesha in collaboration with Max Martin and Shellback; the latter two also produced the song, while all three are responsible for the instrumentation. The song's conception stems from an encounter Kesha had with an older man that had been hitting on her, which she compared to a prehistoric dinosaur. The lyrics discuss an older man that is attempting to hit on a younger female, which is ultimately rejected. The song received generally negative reviews from music critics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dead Sara</span> American hard rock band

Dead Sara is an American rock band from Los Angeles, consisting of Emily Armstrong, Siouxsie Medley, and Sean Friday, best known for their single "Weatherman" from their debut eponymous album Dead Sara (2012). Their most recent album Ain't It Tragic was released in September 2021.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Meg Myers</span> American musician

Janice Sue Meghan Myers, known professionally as Meg Myers, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Originally from Tennessee, Myers moved to Los Angeles to pursue music and met Doctor Rosen Rosen, who signed her to his production company. In 2012, Myers released her first EP, Daughter in the Choir. Later that year, she signed to Atlantic Records, with which she released the Make a Shadow EP (2014) and her debut album, Sorry (2015). She later departed Atlantic for 300 Entertainment and released Take Me to the Disco, her second album, in 2018. Her third album TZIA was released in 2023 on Sumerian Records.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Lemon Twigs</span> American rock band

The Lemon Twigs are an American rock band from the Hicksville neighborhood of Long Island, New York. The duo consists of brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario. Both brothers are vocalists, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists. The band's music has been noted for its stylistic roots in 1960s and 1970s pop and rock music, ranging from power pop to glam rock, art rock, and jangle pop.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Body Talks</span> 2018 single by The Struts & Kesha

"Body Talks" is a song by English rock band the Struts. It was released as the first single from their second studio album, Young & Dangerous. It was originally released on 15 June 2018 as the lead single from their album and was later re-released as a duet with American singer-songwriter Kesha on 28 August 2018. Both the solo and duet versions are included as the first and thirteenth track respectively on the Struts' album. The song was written by band members Luke Spiller and Adam Slack with producers Lauren Christy and John Levine.

References

  1. ↑ "Aslyn - Heard Paul McCartney play tonight. Pretty much..." Facebook.com. Archived from the original on February 26, 2022. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Aslyn: Music". MTV.com . Archived from the original on January 7, 2008. Retrieved January 29, 2008.
  3. ↑ "Capitol Records - Artists - ASLYN". Archived from the original on October 22, 2007. Retrieved September 19, 2007.
  4. ↑ "Aslyn | Music Artist". Mtv.com. Archived from the original on February 19, 2006. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  5. 1 2 [ dead link ]
  6. ↑ "Welcome to". Centerstagechicago.com. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  7. ↑ Chad Radford (October 29, 2009). "Kid Rock joins Zac Brown & friends for GA Theatre benefit". Creative Loafing. Archived from the original on November 4, 2009. Retrieved December 2, 2009.
  8. ↑ "Aslyn - Five Live - Amazon.com Music". Amazon.com. September 18, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  9. ↑ Readability (January 25, 2012). "Ke$ha plus band in V Magazine". Ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Ice Cream for Ke$ha". IMDb.com. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  11. ↑ "DEGA | Savannah Stopover Music Festival | March 6th-8th". Archived from the original on March 7, 2014. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  12. ↑ aslyn [@aslyn] (March 6, 2014). "Playing Savannah Stopover festival with my new project DEGA tonight, Club one, 11pm!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  13. ↑ "ATL Collective presents: Prince's 1999 w/ DEGA (Kalen Nash of Ponderosa & Aslyn), Matt Lipkins and Paige Williams". Facebook.com. February 14, 2014. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  14. ↑ "DEGA". Dega.band. Archived from the original on August 12, 2016. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  15. ↑ "DEGA on Instagram: "Go with your heart"". Instagram.com. April 30, 2016. Archived from the original on December 25, 2021. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  16. ↑ [ dead link ]
  17. ↑ "Wedding Registry | Bed Bath & Beyond". Bedbathandbeyond.com. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  18. ↑ "FontyFest: Just Married". Fontyfest.blogspot.com. October 14, 2011. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  19. ↑ aslyn [@aslyn] (September 18, 2012). "I'm married to The Kaossilator" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  20. ↑ "Aslyn - Today is a special day. October 15 was my papaw..." Facebook.com. Archived from the original on February 26, 2022. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.