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Andrea Owen
                                                        Andrea Owen





























            I’m a singer/songwriter from Bournemouth, UK    worked out and know exactly which path in life
            and have very recently begun to release some    you’re going to take and then somebody or
            of my material.  I’ve been writing for local    something comes along and throws everything
            producers and artists for a while now and was   of course and makes you question everything in
            lucky enough to be introduced to a popular      your life to date.
            producer in London whom I wrote for and he
            suggested I started recording some of the       The song itself and the lyrics talk about being in
            songs closest to me.                            a relationship that hurts other people or that
                                                            people don’t approve of and that battle
            I write to fit many genres; pop, dance, drum &  between prioritizing your own happiness
            bass and even rap!  While I, like many do feel  versus keeping everyone else happy around
            that I have a passion for music, I love to sing, to  you.
            listen to all kinds of music, to dissect my
            favourite songs, to dance and everything else   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec9zpC7m
            that makes one passionate about it, but with    LFI
            writing I seem to have found a ‘knack’,
            something that I just do naturally and I feel it  Other original music
            and mean it and love it.
                                                            My newest song release is called Say Goodbye,
            I’ve been fortunate enough to be asked to       this song is a lively upbeat pop track however it
            perform live at some UK charity festivals and   covers a very dark story.
            work with some really talented musicians. I also  The lyrics are very light hearted and seem
            enjoy trying to use any musical offering I have  happy, but the song is written about an abusive
            to help causes that I believe in.               relationship, anyone whos ever been held back
                                                            or oppressed could relate to Say Goodbye but
            My goals for the future would be to write strong  for me it talks the listener through one of the
            material for established artists. I             hardest times of my life, its very real and very
            thoroughly enjoy sending a demo to someone      close to my heart and I found that using music
            and them saying that they love it or it has     was the only way I could talk about this time in
            something.                                      my life honestly.

            The Lyrics:                                     “You were wrong, you didn’t know”

            My favourite lyrics so far come from a song     This simple first line of the song says it all, that
            called ‘Running’ which I wrote with a local DJ  someone though they could control a person
            and Producer Frazer Mitchell, he wrote and      and keep them locked away from their friends
            produced the track and I wrote the song lyrics.  and family. They were wrong, they didn’t know
                                                            they were finally about to be beaten!
            “I thought I was fine, until you caught me, now
            I’m tangled in this web of deceit”              https://open.spotify.com/album/4ZAIzsWcdjw7
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            The song lyric itself refers to those times in
            your life when you think you have everything    www.facebook.com/reamusic1


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