Top Ten With Arielle

Welcome to Top Ten With…, a fun Q&A session where you’ll get to learn all about the music scene’s hottest artists! Today’s featured artist is Arielle, a young talent who got off to an auspicious start when she was discovered by the legendary Brian May of Queen. The singer-songwriter just released the video for her first single, “California”, and will drop her debut EP in April. Get to know Arielle through our exclusive interview!

Top Ten With Arielle

I’m inspired by:

I am inspired by life, nature, children, the ocean, animal and anything unimpeded and jaded with scars from their past. It’s something I strive to free in myself. I am also inspired by strong emotions, especially pain. Pain is like the highest grade of fuel in which I can create into the most beautiful song from. All of those things separately do not necessarily mean that I will write about them, they are simply the creative spark that takes a shape of its own.

I realized I wanted to play music when:

I realized that I wanted to play music when I saw a video of Queen Live At Wembley with my babysitter when I was 6. Brian May was playing “Hammer to Fall” on guitar and I realized that this was what I was meant to be doing. Prior to that, I had been in a choir but I didn’t consider that ‘playing’ music. Music was almost like my first language, something so very natural for me!

Four songs you might find on my iPod:

Free Fallin’ – Tom Petty

Back to The Light – Brian May

Why should I cry for you? – Sting

Silent Man – Dream Theater

One word I would use to describe myself:

Deep

The best part of being a musician is:

The best part of being a musician is that I can hear things that do not currently exist and express myself by turning them into a song and lavishing the song with emotion. What a gift. It’s a way to express that I find second to none and wouldn’t trade it for the world. I am blessed!

Right now, I’m most excited about:

Right now, I am most excited about people hearing my music and growing as a person! Simultaneously, even!

Something most people don’t know about me is:

I’m a hippie and in another life if I weren’t a musician, I would live in a treehouse in the rainforest by an ocean, and live with the aborigines.

One of my happiest moments was:

One of my happiest moments was working with Carl Restivo & Nuno Bettencourt on my first music video. We were trying to get me signed and it was such an exhilarating, loving, and care-free time that I will never, ever forget.

My music is:

My music is an audible form of the things I can’t or don’t know how to say.

In ten years, I see myself:

In ten years I see myself becoming a better songwriter, a better musician, a better person, a strong voice for the well-being of nature and our environment, playing music, and recording, possibly working with other artists, and getting a PHD in endocrinology.