L3MON: The Beginning

As an artist I’ve had many different phases. I spent the majority of my life before L3mon feeling angry, sad, confused, anxious, unlucky in love, and feeling overall very misunderstood. I had a constant desire to be loved, and always felt invisible, ghostlike- constantly trying to find myself but hiding from the world when things got tough. I was the “lemon” of my own life, never chosen while watching those around me rise to stardom. I finally began expressing my pain, insecurities and conflicted emotions through writing music, which was how L3Mon was born. I had always looked to idols such as Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Robert Plant, Nina Simone, and Tupac for inspiration, and a lot of my music at this time was influenced in some way by these legends.

“L3mon” was a time of exploration and experimentation, both musically and in my own life. I stayed very much behind the scenes, hiding behind images of other “sexy” women, while only coming to life in the bright lights of the stage, where no one could look me in the eye or see me directly. From all my troubles in love, the mind and in life, the music was my release. L3mon was my gift to the world. I made some beautiful music during this period, not all of which was released, that I am finally ready to share. While I still feel a deep connection to the music I made as L3mon, and she is still a part of who I am musically today, she represents a time that I still lay partially in the shadows, not fully having found myself. L3mon’s symbol is of a half person half ghost –which represents working through yourself, and the path toward self-realization.