Serena Ryder Biography

“Stompa,” with its enticing pace, loud emotions, and bursts of enthusiastic scat singing, is sheer delight — and the ideal way to come to know Serena Ryder's wide abilities. The song is about how magical music is, according to the Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter. “How music is one of the world's most potent therapies. That's what I'd like to sing about, the sheer power of music. It has the ability to transport you to another world, shooting you out of your body and into your heart. I wanted something to get you moving, to help you forget about your bad day, your bad job, your bad vehicle, or your bad sickness. That is something that music is capable of. Even though I'm a musician, I occasionally forget it. It's just that simple!” “Stompa,” Ryder's first single and first song recorded for his new album Harmony, is imbued with the creative surge he had while recording it. The song evolved easily and swiftly from a basic riff to this full-blown proclamation of a young artist exploring new levels of expression, recorded at producer-composer Jerrod Bettis' Los Angeles home studio. And it only took three hours from start to finish – a pace that was maintained for the rest of the album, which was completed in only a few weeks. That's all the more surprising given that Ryder, the Juno Award winner for Best New Artist, had written 60 songs for the album before deciding to scrap them all. It gave her a fresh start, allowing her to explore her full musical potential. Sure, she'd made a name for herself as a guitar-strumming singer-songwriter, but she'd started out as a pre-schooler in Millbrook, Ontario, singing along to her mother's Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald albums (pop. 2000). Ryder was able to bring it all together while working with Bettis and producer Jon Levine in Los Angeles and at her backyard studio in Toronto. “In this record, all of those aspects come together,” she explains. “It's called Harmony for a reason. Being able to have a billion things occurring at the same time is what harmony is all about. It's OK as long as they're in harmony. You are not required to consider or deny yourself.”

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