Natalise

Natalise releases her new album today! - “I Came to Play”

Mixing exotic beats and soulful piano styling in a way that is all her own, singer-songwriter Natalise has packed her new album, “I Came To Play,” with as much deep meaning as dance floor bump. A Stanford University high honors graduate with an unyielding passion for music, Natalise is ready once again to take on the world. But this time around, it’s by her rules.

An overachiever by any standard, Natalise began studying voice and piano at age four, dance at seven, songwriting at thirteen. By seventeen, she was recording and producing. Natalise’s focused and unwavering dedication to music is no surprise, given her roots.

Her mother emigrated from Burma at only eighteen years old with a mere $200 to her name – which was stolen on the New York subway her first day in the United States – and now owns a successful boutique insurance agency. Her father, also an immigrant from Burma, is now a professor at Golden Gate University and the University of San Francisco.

Despite being a straight ‘A’ student at one of the nation’s most prestigious schools, Natalise could not ignore her calling. She made a pact with her parents that if she could graduate Stanford in only three years, then she would be able to pursue her real dream of having a musical career. At the age of twenty, Natalise won the bet and used her winnings from an essay competition to fund her first professionally recorded song “Love Goes On.” The song became a nationwide radio hit landing on several highly successful compilations which propelled Natalise onto the covers of respected periodicals like SF Weekly and earned her feature interviews on nationally syndicated television shows like Crosstalk, Stir and the WB’s Daily Mixx. In just a short time, Natalise has become one of the nation’s most highly visible Asian-American singers.

Natalise’s success, however, hit a roadblock when record label executives put pressure on her to write contrived pop songs. She wanted to explore her hip-hop influences (NERD, Missy Elliot, etc.), yet record labels somehow thought she wouldn’t be able to “pull it off” since she is Asian-American. She decided to take matters into her own hands and prove them wrong.

“At the time, I decided to pick myself up. I started writing a lot of material that I wanted to record. I saved money from tutoring kids and teaching piano and voice lessons, and that’s how I paid for my first couple of songs,” says Natalise. With a new label, she has spun those first couple of songs into her dynamic album, “I Came To Play.” By writing or co-writing every song on her new album, Natalise has made a bold declaration of her artistic ideas and firmly asserted her new beginning. The lyrics touch on everything from inspiring messages of being a strong and intelligent woman in a male-dominated industry (“Get Me Off” and “It’s My…”,) to finding and losing love (“Enough”). Natalise lays her emotions and life experiences out for all to see. Whether her voice is flying over heavy hitting beats, or soaring over heartbreaking piano ballads, Natalise reveals an inner strength way beyond her years.

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