Nashville, Tennessee
24 Years Old
Songwriter, Lyricist

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"~in everything, love~"

BIOGRAPHY

For Chelsie Guillemet, song is a natural expression, a close companion of her soul and life. “Creativity heightens our awareness of life and lets us feel its quality,” she says, “so why stifle it with boundaries and expectations?”

Keeping it honest and organic, both in and outside the lines, Chelsie’s self-proclaimed genre ‘Motif Music’ is not written or produced to any pre-ordained formula where marketing influences content. Instead, it follows the emblematic flow of Chelsie’s unfolding experience.

“Writing is part of my existence and how I manage life,” says the California native, who penned her first offering at age seven. Her TV-less childhood in Nashville, hiking with her golden retriever, reading, and enjoying music from radio tunes to Phantom of the Opera made Chelsie very observant of the feelings in her world, and very analytical in her perception.

In high school she began writing in earnest– mostly verbose poetry and melancholy lyrics to the same dark chords. During college, she discovered what made music enjoyable for the listener and began to develop her “motif” music.

In January ‘09, Chelsie Guillemet started Motif Music and is working toward recording and releasing her first LP. She isn’t pursuing stardom or fame, only the opportunity to continue writing enjoyable, authentic music.

LEVEL

professional

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Motif Music, independent publishing company

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar / vocals

INFLUENCES

Natural Elements--wind, water, fire, earth, ...no, not Captain Planet ;)
Experiencing People's Unity, Honesty, Love, and Compassion--it's the stuff of happiness
Creativity at its Best--second to nature, nothing's more refreshing
Mental, Physical, and Emotional Challenges--without them, we'd have no character

DAY JOB

I write for and operate Motif Music (Music by Motif, BMI).

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,