Ep. 162:Christina Perri

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

Unknown, Music Interviews, Songwriting, Music, Songwriters, Education, Interviews, Music Creation, Artists

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🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Today’s guest is a multi-platinum singer-songwriter who has earned critical applause and an increasingly fervent fan following since the arrival of her extraordinary, platinum-certified, 2011 debut, lovestrong, which featured the 5x-platinum certified smash, “Jar of Hearts” and gold-certified “arms.” She followed lovestrong. with the worldwide hit single, “A Thousand Years,” exclusively featured on THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1 & 2– ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACKS. The RIAA diamond certified track was a multi-format radio favorite, and accompanied by an equally popular companion video, now boasting over 1.3 billion individual views via YouTube alone. HEAD OR HEART, her acclaimed gold-certified, second album, arrived in 2014, highlighted by the RIAA 2X platinum certified single, “Human.” Our guest kicked off 2019 with songs for carmella: sing-a-longs and lullabies, a collection of songs the acclaimed singer-songwriter sang to her daughter everyday, released on Carmella’s first birthday. She released the poignant single “Tiny Victories,” a track she wrote for the HBO documentary FOSTER, which made its premiere in Spring 2019. Most recently, she released songs for rosie in honor of her daughter on what would have been her first birthday and most recently, her latest studio album, a lighter shade of blue, released this summer. And The Writer Is… Christina Perri!

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0:00.0	Welcome to And The Writer is with Ross Going.
0:13.9	There are millions of singers, thousands of artists and only 40 songs per genre at a time.
0:20.2	These are the stories of the hottest creatives, the most venerable legends, artists, songwriters,
0:25.8	executives, and more.
0:28.1	Welcome to And The Writer is, I'm your host Ross Golyn.
0:45.8	Today's Diamond Platinum songstress rose to prominence with her smashing hit jar of hearts
0:51.6	which blew up not from radio, not from streaming, not from social media, but from choreography.
0:58.0	The dance was one of the most iconic moments of the legendary show, so you think you can dance.
1:04.8	Only a year after taking the world by storm, she did it again with an even bigger record
1:09.9	and an even bigger placement.
1:11.9	Her song a thousand years to find the sound of the Twilight trilogy and topped all the charts
1:18.5	and sold a bazillion records all the way from here.
1:22.7	This artist writes from the bottom of her heart and wears her heart on both sleeves.
1:28.2	And The Writer is Christina Perry.
1:31.8	What's up, dude? That was the best intro I've ever had in my whole life.
1:38.2	Oh, I love that. I mean, you've done a lot of interviews, so I'll take that as a compliment.
1:42.5	No, for real, man. Nobody does such a cute one.
1:46.4	I feel like I need to bring that around with me wherever I go and be like,
1:50.4	I'm sorry, this actually is going to play before we begin.
1:53.7	Well, here's the thing, and not to talk about the podcast,
1:57.7	but it's like, it's really an opportunity to, I love music and I love songwriting.
2:06.8	And to meet songwriters, I'm still a kid.
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