     SHeDAISY
| "Sisters are doing it for themselves," Aretha
Franklin and Annie Lennox sang a while back, and no where in today’s music is this
more true that with SHeDAISY, three Utah-born siblings, Kristyn, Kelsi, and Kassady Osborn
– who’ve harmonized together their whole lives and worked the past dozen years
in Nashville to become the artistic force behind the groundbreaking new release, KNOCK ON
THE SKY. |
SHeDAISY with Vince Guiterrez
© 2002 Thanks For The Music
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"We’ve learned a lot of life lessons since our first
album," says Kristyn, referring to their double-platinum debut, THE WHOLE SHeBANG,
released on Lyric Street Records in 1999, followed by a remix album and the yuletide BRAND
NEW YEAR. Kristyn wrote or co-wrote every track on the very personal follow-up, KNOCK ON
THE SKY, which SHeDAISY co-produced with the returning Dann Juff. In fourteen competing
tracks, the album tells the story of a woman’s search for self, the fragility of the
female ego, coming to terms with her own sexuality, free agency, the euphoria of new love,
love that is unattainable, regret, revenge, remorse, life’s "seductive highs and
destructive lows." |
Kassidy
sympathizes as only a sister can, "We feel so close to these songs," she
relates. "Even though Kelsi and I haven’t experienced quite the emotion Kristyn
expressed in some of the songs, I feel like I have because I’ve been watching Kristyn
go through it. With every song on the album, I get the emotion. I know why she wrote it.
That’s why it’s so real—it’s a sister thing."
| Summarizing SHeDAISY’s goal for KNOCK ON THE SKY, Kristyn says, "We like to
think of each song as a mini-movie. It needs to be entertaining, wheather it makes you
feel emotional or whether it makes you want to dance or whether it makes you want to call
your mom and say thank you." While Kelsi and Kassidy nod their heads in agreement,
she adds, "We want you to be able to picture things while you’re listening. And
the only way to do that is for us to paint it sonically with every single song." Let’s
hope that SHeDAISY’s Osborn sisters never run out of paint! |
SHeDAISY at their new CD Release party;
May 15, 2002
© 2002 Thanks For The Music
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Thanks For The Music
June 23, 2002 |
