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BiTS INTERVIEW: Veronica Lewis

Veronica Lewis is an exciting emerging talent in the Blues & Roots world. A mesmerizing live
performer with serious piano chops, soaring vocals, and songs that boogie away your blues,

she’s a seasoned pro at 17, rocking the piano and electrifying audiences with music that’s
exciting and energetic, yet rhythmically complex and challenging. This Indie American piano

player, singer, and songwriter puts a truly modern spin on the Roots of American Music.
Ian McKenzie spoke to her on the telephone at her home.

VL: Hey, it’s Veronica. Thank you for calling. [chuckling].

BiTS: My pleasure. Let’s get on and do our interview, shall we?

VL: Absolutely.

BiTS: I’m going to start with the
easiest question that you’re ever
going to get. Tell me something
about yourself that people don’t
know.

VL: Oh gosh. I guess the biggest
thing that I wanted to tell people is
how grateful I am for all the support
because this album - I just released
my debut album - “You Ain’t
Unlucky”, and it kind of began as

very spontaneous and it came
together really fast through this
pandemic and it’s just been amazing
to have everyone’s love and
encouragement about it. I mean, oh

gosh, let me think! I’ve done so many
interviews. Let me think. I’m
thinking about something that I
haven’t already been asked and answered. Well, I mean, I guess a big part of me that I haven’t
really talked about is stuff outside of music that intertwines with everything - my songwriting and
my playing, which is I love science and inventing.

BiTS: Really?

VL: Yes. I mean, I’m not sure if that’s the road we want to go down with this interview. We don’t
have to go there, but if we wanted to talk about music, I write the majority of all the songs I play
and even the covers that I do play, I rearrange them totally, so definitely a huge part of who I am is
a songwriter [laughs].

BiTS: Does that sort of mean that you’re into the electronic side of recording as well?

VL: A little bit and definitely I’ve gone into more of that because of the pandemic because I actually
recorded almost all the vocals at home for “You Ain’t Unlucky”, and because of that, I definitely