They were encouraging the parts of me I thought I needed to hide from the world all of the reasons I thought I shouldn’t be an artist are the reasons people were telling me I should be one.Īfter a long period of self-reflection, I realized that my priority and goal is to create an authentic, positive, and inclusive community through my music. Her audience was so supportive of me they embraced my imperfections as a singer and sometimes extra human-being LMFAO, but continually asked where they could stream the music they only heard a few seconds of.
She started posting funny videos on her social media of us working on my original songs, with me yelling the f-bomb anytime I would crack or mess up (lol). In the meantime, I was taking vocal lessons with singer and vocal coach icon, Natalie Weiss, so that my demo vocals would sound as convincing as possible.
I was lucky enough to get to play my songs for music industry veterans and was so grateful to receive positive responses from writers like J Kash, Jason Evigan and Meghan Trainor. In the beginning of 2020, I was cold-emailing my songs to entertainment lawyers, artist A&Rs, publishing companies… just anyone who would take a chance on me and hopefully get my songs placed with artists I’ve always looked up to. I’m heavily influenced by songwriting icons John Mayer and Sara Bareilles, but also pop/r&b queen legends Beyoncé, Whitney Houston and Ariana Grande. I love to write vulnerable, tear-jerking piano ballads about the most severe symptoms of heartbreak, but also enthusiastic, upbeat pop earworms about being a fucking bad-ass HAHA. I’ve been songwriting since I was 8 years old, but I always thought I’d write for popstars someday because I didn’t think I could fit into the old, antiquated stereotype of what an artist used to be (ya know… skinny, sexy, wearing fancy clothes vibes, etc. I never thought I’d be writing a bio like this because I didn’t think I’d be the artist. HI ICONS! I’m Jules Brave and I’m a pop singer/songwriter from NYC who you could probably spot anywhere wearing bright-blue Beats headphones and drinking a Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappuccino LOL.