Agrona O'Conner Perspective on UNFILTERED

Music has power to lift people's spirits, to group like minded people together, to tell peoples stories when they can't find the words, to touch and calm the most chaotic minds it has the power to heal it's the glue that bonds us

I'd probably say have more top of the pop style shows on tv and more live music shows (not competitions just different artists different genres especially for new artists to even the playing field as it is you only tend to get exposure if you have a big budget

I plan to dazzle the world with my amazing vocals and manifest that everybody falls in love with me because I'm cute ☺️

 in all seriousness I'd love to see more speak easy type jazz bars that people used to love back in the day of prohibition maybe bring a little class live music all the way 

I've never really felt lonely I'm a bit contrary here because I love being social but I also love being on my own I've had a few bad relationship choices so I find my own happy place I can't say I've felt lonely as an artist but I'm fairly new to it

I was singing this woman's work a Kate bush cover and a woman dashed out of the toilet to listen she said it was so good she stopped mid pee to come and look at who was singing made me chuckle 

I practice daily lyrics are a challenge for me mostly these days as I have a poor memory but I'm starting to practice different styles and genres so I spend more time listening than practice atm

I'm a powerhouse blues rock singer  I love alsorts of music so I hope that I show that in my style I have eclectic tastes from jazz to rnb to rock 

Beth hart I love her style and power 

id love to have my song as the next james bond movie

So to me success as an artist would be quitting the day job to go full time performing being paid a living wage and having people enjoy what you do, being able to live the lifestyle without the 9-5 to me it's not about fame or glamour so much more about achieving a status and a goal one step at a time the goal and measure of success change tho when you've achieved one goal you have to set yourself another success would be achieving each goal my current goal for example is to gain artist status on TikTok little steps :) achieving goals you set yourself is success to me making a living from doing what you love is success to me 

Beth hart,  Jim Morrison , Kate bush 

because they are amazing unique and I'd never get bored and always be inspired I

too many greats to only pick 3 especially when I have such eclectic tastes I love anything from Kittie to Laura Fabian and dua lipa 

Unfiltered because I love the lyrics and the way the song changes the vocal range was challenging and I love the powerful tone to it  as well as wanting to go down the path of an old speakeasy lounge bar feel and at the same time it just fits me it's fun to sing live too 

I'm a powerful soul ballad type singer a little different unique with mature vocals that have a nostalgic lounge singer James Bond movie feel to them

Live I love performing to a real audience 

Etta James 

Amy winehouse 

Vella

Jim Morrison he was an amazing poet eccentric and wild I loved his music  

freddie mercury because I think it's sad that I didn't know who he was till he'd passed and he was a genius 

kate bush she's extremely clever unique and has amazing business savvy she's not afraid of being different and her songs have the wow factor for sure 

so many others 

Ooh there's a number of people I admire teddy swims I love his voice his songs his style and the powerful tones I think we'd sing amazing together 

Beth hart because she's amazing and unique and I admire her I could learn a lot from her and she seems fun 

My songs are mainly based around social observations and self reflection unfiltered for example is about the different masks you wear for different sets of people and the masks they place upon you based on their previous experiences and bias  your a different person around strangers for example taht you would be your partner a self preservation thing everyone even those who say they are an open book what you see is what you get wears a mask and even when they don't distorted vision misconstrued can mean that people don't see who you really are 

Changes is more political but it's about not conforming just because it's easy or because it's what your trained to do from birth if you don't fit into those neat little boxes it can make you unhappy hold you back, and it's saying that change starts within and it's possible to change your world if you change the way you look at it 

Contemporary R&B /jazz fused with Soul 

vocal jazz singer songwriter 

I think I was five ish I wanted to be in musicals and when I was 15 I played smike in smike at the y theatre in Leicester it's a musical based on Charles Dickens novel Nicolas Nickleby 

My names Agrona O'Conner I'm a blues soul rock jazz singer from a little town in the UK called Leicester I sing in local pubs the occasional festival and recently released two songs that I wrote myself and a cover I love singing and I love a challenge 

I remember my dad getting me my first single which was called ghost town I think it's was the b side of a vinyls and I loved it I was about 5 I think  and rhinestone the bear its was one of the odd shaped records but I don't actually remember the song just the shape another of my earliest memories is top of the pops was one of my favourite tv shows