Australian singer Emily Perry recently sat down for an interview with Seat42F about her hot single “Walk in Silence” and lessons she’s learned as she stretches her wings in the music and entertainment industry.
The young musician performed in her first concert at only four years old, according to her website, and look how far she’s come since! “My music actually stemmed from my dance background. I’ve been a dancer since I was 3 years old and from there I became involved with singing,” Perry explained. “Dance is my way of expressing my thoughts and feelings, bringing those emotions out and giving them life through movement. My music is an extension of that. I started to really develop as an artist and plan for a career in the music industry during my teenage years. I couldn’t imagine doing anything different with my life!”
Perry had been writing music since she was young, but she first started to feel like she made it after her first single, “Sugarcoated,” came out. Though, she added, she feels like she’s always trying to make it, always trying to better herself. Her ultimate goal? To make people feel something when they listen to her music. “My goal is to make people feel something. I want them to be able to vibe out and relate lyrically when listening to my music.”
Perry went on to explain that “Walk in Silence” was partially inspired by journals she started writing when she was eleven years old. “I pulled a line or two out of my songbook with this one. I was 11 the first time I started using a writing journal,” she said. “Now I have stacks and stacks of them…. Everything I’ve ever felt or thought or seen, I’ve written down…. Most of the time you think of something in the most unlikely situation. You might not even understand what it really means until you come across it later but when you originally wrote it down, it clearly meant something to you. From that you can create special music.”
Perry is excited about her new album, which will be coming out sometime this year. She also had some advice for other people looking to get into the industry: try hard, work hard, and never give up.
