Kayleigh Walker opens the
door to a star career with debut single “Psychedelic”
By Kurt Beyers
To introduce
herself in the world of singers and songwriters, Kayleigh Walker has written,
performed and videoed a track that lives up to its name: “Psychedelic.”
Kayleigh, from
Essex, England, wrote a fast moving, musical mind trip featuring powerful
vocals, delightful beats, and melodies that play off and build on each other.
“It’s just a
real good, fun pop song,” she says.
“Psychedelic”
releases today.
She is starting
from scratch in her career as a singer-songwriter, but she is no ingenue. She
is 32, and she has talent, experience, style and showmanship. All of that is on
full display in the audio track, and along with that, in plain view on the
video, beauty.
“When I was
younger, I did a lot of advertisements, and I did quite a lot of modeling, but
I just wanted to sing along to every song. I’d get a bit sidetracked. And I
thought, ‘You know what? This is something I want to do. I want to be a
performer.’ Growing up, I would sing every song on the radio, and then went
into a band when I was in my teenager years.”
That experience
gave her the desire to write songs, to sing her own music instead of other
people’s songs. It also led to the experience with the industry that has her
starting over.
She signed with
an independent label and found herself “doing music and writing songs that
didn’t really feel comfortable with me.”
“I’ve done
everything that needs to be done, from writing a whole album, to being promised
that it’s going to be released, to have good marketing behind it, and to then see
it going down into a black hole. Overnight.”
It was, she
said, “devastating,” but, she continued, “I don’t like to talk about the past.
It’s not about the present, right?”
And that is how
she comes to be starting over.
“It’s made me
stronger,” she said, “and it’s made me think I can do this by myself. I don’t
need other people to tell me what I can and what I can’t do, because this is my
music. It’s finding that inner self, and that inner belief, which made me write
‘Psychedelic.’”
When music is your life,
You’re on a psychedelic high.
It’s the
perfect song for starting over, joyful and defiant at the same time.
Turn the lights down low,
Ready for the after show,
…
Never coming down, never coming down
“And I was
like, ‘You know what? It doesn’t matter. I’m going to start all over again.’
And that’s what I did.”
She highlights
how fortunate she has been to find people who support her, people who believe
in her and will back her up, get her in the studio and make her video.
The video was
directed by Eline Powell with production and post-production by The Lennox
Brothers. Powell, the Belgian actress who played Ryn in the TV series “Siren,”
is also a featured player in the video. Lee and Wayne Lennox have made videos
for Robbie Williams and Ellie Goulding.
Kayleigh has
been writing songs, music and lyrics, for several years, developing the musical
style that “feels right for me, and being true to myself as an artist.” She
calls what she does “alternative’’ because it has pop, rock, jazz, “a little
bit of everything.”
“So,
alternative. Yeah.”
She has three
songs ready to go, another in her mind and an album in her plans.
“I’ve always
loved music,” she said. “I’ve always enjoyed performing. I love writing, I love
being in the studio. I just couldn’t imagine doing anything else. This is part
of me, and I’m going to show to you, to the world, that I don’t give up. You
open one door to another door. Life is like a trip, you know? You don’t know
what’s gonna happen.”
In the middle
of the bridge to “Psychedelic,” where Kayleigh is chanting “trip trip trip trip,”
a male voice interjects, beween one “trip” and the next, “Are you there,
Kayleigh?”
“Trip trip trip
trip,” Kayleigh continues for another couple of bars, then, “I’m here.”
“Psychedelic”
is the door opening to her new journey.
Connect with
Kayleigh Walker on all platforms for new music, videos, and social posts and go
with her.
Website: https://kayleighwalker.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxwl8EB8MdM2Ev407Npvm3g
https://www.facebook.com/Kayleighwalkermusic/
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