I feel the need to update my bio, in an effort to make it sound more fresh, funny, edgy, interesting or less pretentious…really it just is what it is. I am simply complex and have already lived a few lifetimes in my close to twenty something years. I am a singer, turned actress, turned songwriter, turned artist, and now touring artist/songwriter. I am a sister of one brother and one sister and daughter to two wonderful parents who are still together…I am so proud of that. I have traveled all over the world many times, been to over 30 countries and lived 9 years overseas, but was born in Texas and still think of it as home. I have a fear of monotony and consistency and feel the need to make and live my life as colorfully as possible…all within reason of course, because I fear of “normal”. This of course further fuels my creative passion and journey forward as an artist and songwriter. Currently I sing demos and clean houses a few days a week to pay the bills, although God is whittling down my client roster. My close friends and family say it is because he is preparing me for greater things…I believe that. One of my close friends said to me last night that she thought music was her boyfriend…I’m not saying that, but I can’t imagine my life without it.
I have literally dabbled in a ridiculous amount of different career paths in an attempt to do the “normal” thing I spoke of earlier…it never took. I worked in supermarkets, investment banks in NYC and London, the Piccadilly Theatre in London, England’s West End as a performer, Harrods and Nordstrom; for Madonna’s film company, a talent agency in LA, Warner Bros. Records, a song-plugging company in Nashville, a nanny in NYC and as a voice teacher, debtor analyst, cupcake decorator, hostess, waitress, acting teacher, make-up artist and house cleaner. I think it took my last career choice…and it was a choice …to know without a shadow of a doubt that I was doing what I was made to do. I have been humbled and hungry far greater than I thought possible, in an sometimes unconscious effort to search not only my heart, but to really be honest with myself about what I was doing and why. I have learned to not take myself as seriously as I used to, but I take what I do very seriously. As creators and artists we are muses…we are the instruments for dreams…and in that we have great responsibility. I know I am just a very small part of a large body, but for my role I am very grateful. Recently, I have come to a place of peace and contentment to be just where I am, doing and striving to achieve more… but just as I am. Don’t get me wrong, I still want to walk across the CMA, ACM or Grammy stage someday like any of us, but I don’t feel the pressure I used to. I feel it a blessing to just be able to get up and go to work everyday on Music Row, tell stories through music and sing those stories to people who listen. My music and writing will continue to evolve and grow as I do in this process, and I look forward…always forward.
God is a tremendous part of my life, as is my family. I know without both of them I would be entirely lost. I still get excited to go on airplanes, love to travel nearly anywhere, am a sucker for Shakespeare, Jane Austen, expensive food and wine, all beauty treatments and any cosmetic counter. I pride myself on learning useless pieces of information and am probably, most definitely a little crazy…but I usually think it’s more interesting to look at things from 12 different angles. I’m not exceptionally cleaver or particularly funny and obviously enjoy prose to wit…always have, so my writing leans more to the formal, ethereal and verbose…but hey that is me…and I’m writing about me…that’s what a bio is supposed to be about…right?
Julie Forester’s Music is available on Cd Baby and itunes and most other digital distributors. She will be touring with In The Round, On The Road, Nashville Songbirds and Women on Fire in the coming months. All further tour and scheduling information can be found at www.julieforester.com. Send all booking inquires to juliesongbird@gmail.com
