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Nashville artist Dana Rogers goes by the stage identify “daena” – and her debut album Alter Ego feels destined to make numerous “Better of 2024” lists.
The brand new album is a showcase not only for daena’s very good songwriting however for her extremely versatile voice as properly. It’s arduous to convey tenderness, however daena is a grasp at it. Songs like “Fortunate Quantity” and “Bri” are intimate and touching.
But the album has loads of uptempo delights, too – just like the album’s title music that has a Sabrina Carpenter-style Huge Refrain.
We spoke with daena in regards to the new album and her plans to put it on the market:
“Fortunate Quantity” is SO stunning and seems like a success to my ears. What’s the backstory on this nice music?
Thanks a lot! This one is certainly one of the crucial particular on the album to me. My fiancée and I are getting married in April, and by the point we do, we’ll have been collectively for 10 years. However, once I wrote this music we have been about to hit our 7-year courting anniversary. Virtually in a single day, I felt a shift and realized that not solely did I wish to spend the remainder of my life together with her, however I used to be truly prepared to get engaged and begin the subsequent chapter of our life collectively.
I wished to write down about how the perfect love doesn’t must be grandiose or over-the-top to be stunning. And that secure, snug love can hold getting higher and higher 12 months after 12 months. I got here to my co-writer Kate Yeager with the thought, and after speaking each about my future in-laws’ love of playing (LOL) and the tender and candy method we love our respective companions day-to-day, we discovered our approach to “Fortunate Quantity”.
“Bri” can be a really particular music. What led to you writing that one?
This was a tricky one to write down. I wrote it as an apology to my childhood greatest good friend, Bri, at a time once I felt like I hadn’t been pretty much as good a good friend as I ought to have been to her. I feel it’s arduous for anybody to confess one thing like that, and it truly took me a number of years to write down. There’s an early model of the music from round 2018 that I then delivered to my co-writer Kären McCormick in 2022, and he or she helped me form it into what you hear on the report. And sure – Bri and I are STILL greatest mates! I’ve by no means as soon as fearful that we wouldn’t be. I feel it’s only a testomony to how sturdy our friendship and belief with one another is, and I’m so fortunate that she gave me her blessing to launch this one.
Will you be doing any reveals this fall to advertise the brand new album?
I simply had my album launch present final Friday at The Lipstick Lounge in Nashville, which was an absolute blast! I’m nonetheless using the excessive and must say I’m sort of itching to plan some extra now… so hold your eyes peeled on my social media for any new dates being introduced.
