Indie-pop artist Britta Raci started singing in church, after her parents took her when she was three years old.
“I’d been performing in church choirs and schools, and wrote my first song at nine years old after taking guitar lessons for about a year,” Raci says. “I was in a band in high school, and knew I wanted to get a bachelor's in music. It was always serious to me, but it became very serious when I went to college in my twenties for music.”
Raci says that her sound has shifted over the years.
“The band I was in did a range of neo-soul, pop, rock and R&B,” she says. “Now, I’ve shifted to doing pop rock and emo indie rock—pretty heavy on the nostalgia for Avril Lavigne.”
Her most recent release is the indie-rock EP Striking Out.
“Each track has a baseball inspired theme in honor of all the games my cheating boyfriend played with me,” she says. “The lyrics are dark, yet fun and relatable, with captivating melodies and production by my friend, Joel Ferber, that I am very proud of.”
In Raci’s case, “indie” isn’t just a musical genre.
“DIY, in the musical sense, to me, means you are an artist who has no huge label, or any label helping you out,” she says. “You pay for everything, you send the emails, you find the gigs, you write the songs— you do it yourself. Not to say, you can’t have a little help from your friends along the way.”
Looking ahead, Raci is working on her debut album and she wants to make sure it’s a doozy.
“This year, I plan to record my first album—might take a minute because I am trying to make it another heartfelt masterpiece,” she says. “I’ll drop some electronic collaborations that I have in the work with some other artists as I work on my own album, and I’m excited to continue playing my EP live.”
For more information, visit instagram.com/brittaraci.
