About Ava Anderson
Hey y'all, I'm Ava. I record a whole lotta rock 'n' roll and sing with every fragment of my body.
I grew up in the farmlands of New Jersey. I spent summers playing dress-up and imaginary games, running through fields of tall grass and hay bales sprinkled at random. My parents always had music playing, and we spent nearly every night having dance parties in our small creaky living room to Sting, Hootie & The Blowfish, Don McLean, Celine Dion, Faith Hill, The Beatles... the list goes on. My mom would sing me show tunes and lullabies every night (and still does sometimes upon request). My love for music goes all the way back to this time when I was a kid. I started with piano lessons at ten years old, then picked up the guitar at twelve. I had already written hundreds of songs, lyrics and poems without music, but I desperately wanted to learn to play the guitar. My parents told me that if Sting learned to play on his own, I could too.
Fast forward many years of moving houses, to North Carolina then New York. Years of continuing to write, sing and play at local events, pep rallies, town festivals, and more I'm sure I'm forgetting. I started recording myself with GarageBand and playing around with the software... discovering what reverb was - wow. I worked at a studio in Manhattan during high school and fell in love with this other world. Being an artist was (and is) incredible and wonderful, but I became fascinated with the art of recording. I continued to work at this studio into my first year of college at Marymount Manhattan where I was studying Business Management. *YAWN* I dropped out, worked as a barista for a couple of years "finding myself." Long story short, I applied to Berklee College of Music where I was sure I wouldn't get in, but I got in. It was one of the happiest days of my life.
At Berklee I was able to pursue two degrees, one that pushed myself as an artist (Songwriting), the other that pushed me to become a great producer and engineer (Music Production & Engineering). I feel extraordinarily #blessed to have been able to live such a fulfilling life as a musician already, and I'm still sort of young. Yay!
Current Working Location
New York
Links to work
Work experience
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Ava's Skills
Engineering- Assistant Engineer
- Mix Engineer
- Music Editor
- Recording Engineer
- Touring Musician
- Mixer
- Producer
- Production Assistant
- Vocal Producer
- Co-Writer
- Top Line
Ava's Genres
- Alternative Rock
- Blues
- Country
- Pop
- Punk