Vonyse
grooves HOB
Courtesy
of Vonyse.com
By
Matt Logan
On-line Forty-Niner
Vonyse,
a new music artist and former Cal State
Long Beach student, reached inside her
heart to give listeners a piece of her
soul at the House of Blues in Hollywood
last Tuesday night, filling the room with
a groove all her own.
From
the first note played to the final breath,
Vonyse sang for a good hour and 15 minutes,
making everyone in the room feel what
she felt as her emotion poured through
the microphone.
She
blended a mix of R&B, rock, jazz and
funk to produce her own genre of music,
which she calls, "altered native
soul." Vonyse attributes her style
to her musical influences, such as, Aretha
Franklin and early Rollingstones.
On
top of creating music, she decided to
take on producing it as well. Her debut
album, "When Sleeping Giants Wake"
will be released in December or January.
As
an independent artist, Vonyse has been
doing it for a little over two years.
She said she wants to hold out for a deal
that affords her such creative freedoms.
Vonyse
decided that commercially driven producers
would take away from her search for full
self-expression, so she pre-produced it
herself in her living room using an old
acoustic guitar, her laptop and a digital
16-track recorder.
A
native of Indianapolis, Vonyse said she
would often write and sing songs as a
child solely as an outlet. She finished
up high school in northern California,
where she expanded her musical expression
in an award winning gospel choir.
Moving
to Long Beach, she pursued a career in
graphic design and film at CSULB. She
learned skills in web design and advertising
that later proved helpful when, as an
independent artist, she need to pay the
bills.
"I
was sitting in my living room one day
and decided that this isn't what I wanted
to do," Vonyse said. "I wanted
to share the experience of just living
with everyone."
"Music
has carried me through so many challenging
times. It is the breath that gives me
life."
Through
lyrics and sound beauty flows from the
lips of this new, soul artist.
