San Antonio, Texas
35 Years Old
Songwriter

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BIOGRAPHY

At 33 years old, Carisa Silvesan is headstrong about putting more time into her songwriting. Raising 6 kids, homeschooling 3, she is a freelance writer for examiner.com, helium.com, and associatedcontent.com. She also just opened a shop on etsy.com called Beginnings (very small, but due to grow steadily).
A native of Bellevue, Washington, she has now resided in San Antonio, Texas for over 4 years.

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Folk, Christian, Rock

Contact

Management: N/A
Publishing: N/A
Label: N/A
Music Supervisor: N/A
Booking: N/A
Administrative: just me - 425-408-2517

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar

INFLUENCES

Fiona Apple's Album "Shadowboxer" was the first song I'd heard on the radio that I felt was highly original. It made me think, "I can do that too!" Of course my first couple of attempts were somewhat odd and felt out of place. Listening to Jewel and Tori Amos gave me more confidence that expressing myself, events, people and more on a personal level is what would make a song people wanted to listen to. Hopefully, songs people would be moved by as well. Old Christian hymns have always struck me as beautiful, but sometimes too structured for me. I try to write my own in an original way. Really, I try to listen to some of everything and listen for the next chord arrangement that seems to be being used quite a bit and then I try to change it to be more unique.

DAY JOB

work at home mom/full time student

I AM INTERESTED IN

in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a publishing deal

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody

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