Anna Craig, Seventeen-Year-Old Pop-Country Singer announces gorgeous Brand-New Album

Established on Youtube in which she's got several thousand followers and in excess of a million views, seventeen yr old singer/songerwriter Anna Craig is delighted to have her 1st release through Expat Records. A distant cousin to Tammy Wynette, Anna posesses a distinctive, robust voice in her tiny 5' 3" frame. She has long been called "Taylor Underwood." Her tracks come from the heart of a teenager, including tracks on the subject of adolescent relationships like "In Disguise" and "The Secret", to the tearful plea for a beau to safely come back home from Afghanistan in "Come Back Home", to the lively "Slow Down", Anna has got a sound that'll be loved for many years to come.

"Youtube is truly the place it all began for me," Anna says. "I performed a cover of Taylor Swift's Picture to Burn. I continued performing more covers, after which began doing a little of my own, personal tunes. I totally try to remember when I was so thrilled to get a hundred fans. It's unbelievable that at this point I have several thousand! It's nuts! But that is how I actually got going. A producer, Chris Via, spotted my video clips and persuaded me to put together some tracks. After which Expat Records found them. And here I am!"

Without question , Anna claims the musician who most inspired her music is Taylor Swift. "I love Taylor! I could listen to her songs all day," Anna says. "I also enjoy Carrie Underwood. She performs vocally challenging songs, and I believe all singers aim to do that." Anna's technique utilizes the style of both Swift and Underwood. As a lyricist, Anna, like Taylor Swift, really likes authoring songs regarding teen relationships. Like Carrie Underwood, Anna loves to incorporate musically-challenging notes and chord progressions in her songs, also. In her come out lp, Anna accomplished both. "Many my tunes were in relation to my boyfriend back then," Anna states with a chuckle. "In Disguise" talks about just how the grass is not always greener on the other side of the hill. Very often the optimal boy for a girl is immediately beneath her nose. She just doesn't necessarily recognise him for just who he is.

"The Secret" concerns getting a crush on a boy at school. Can Anna get up the guts to simply tell him her secret? On the other side of a relationship is the track "Everywhere I Go," during which Anna sings about how almost everywhere she goes she is reminded of the happy times she had with her boyfriend.

Probably the track that tugs at the heartstrings above any other is "Come Back Home." It is about a girl who wishes that her sweetheart, who is off to Afghanistan, might not simply fight for his country, yet he will additionally safeguard himself. More than anything else, though,, she just wishes him to come back home. Commenting on the track, Anna says, "My boyfriend was giving thought to signing up for the armed service when he finished twelfth grade. I started considering what that would be like and it didn't take me long to write 'Come Back Home.'"

A local of Hartselle, Alabama, Anna is a honor student in the school room, where she stands second in her high school class of around 2 hundred scholars. She has gotten numerous academic scholarships from universities in the southeast which includes admission to the esteemed Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College at the University of Mississippi. But Anna is undoubtedly not all studies and no fun. She reveals her fun side with the song "Slow Down." "Matt McKeown composed nearly all of the lyrics on that track," Anna said. "Chris Via and I helped finish it off. It is a great song that certainly expresses who I am in a lighthearted way." In the song, Anna lets her fictional two-timing speed-demon boyfriend know quickly that he's going to have to decelerate his fast paced style if he wants to have any chance with her.

If Ms. Craig's very first project is any signal, the country music community most likely be hearing much more of Anna Craig.