The town of Woodstock, NY has long been a Mecca for artists, musicians, and writers, even before the 1969 music festival made the name "Woodstock" famous. It seems only fitting that Australian pop artist Sandrine would call it "home" now.
Listening to her second full length album, literally takes you back in time. Not to the mud infused hills of upstate NY, but to a simpler time in pop music where talent is raw, melodies are dramatic and it's all 100% authentic.
"I'm into old fashioned songwriting," Sandrine says. "I'm inspired by late 60's early 70's period."
Born into a hotly Christian family, in her native Down Under, Sandrine wasn't allowed to listen to the radio. But she was no stranger to singing on stage, or in front of a church congregation. Her father, a minister turned his family into a Christian Partridge Family of sorts, moving them from Sydney to New Zealand establishing them as a Christian music group called the Cornerstone Family. They lived in a bus that they turned into a home, selling their Christian albums at each stop.
Though the church songs left a lasting impression on Sandrine, she rebelled as a teenager and moved out of the family house when she was fifteen and into a trailer in the backyard.
"It {Christian music} was really good musically," Sandrine says. "But stylistically I wasn't so exposed to what was going on in the pop music world, and it would have been a little bit sort of bad because it was the 80's and the 90's."
Listening to her second full length album, literally takes you back in time. Not to the mud infused hills of upstate NY, but to a simpler time in pop music where talent is raw, melodies are dramatic and it's all 100% authentic.
"I'm into old fashioned songwriting," Sandrine says. "I'm inspired by late 60's early 70's period."
Born into a hotly Christian family, in her native Down Under, Sandrine wasn't allowed to listen to the radio. But she was no stranger to singing on stage, or in front of a church congregation. Her father, a minister turned his family into a Christian Partridge Family of sorts, moving them from Sydney to New Zealand establishing them as a Christian music group called the Cornerstone Family. They lived in a bus that they turned into a home, selling their Christian albums at each stop. Though the church songs left a lasting impression on Sandrine, she rebelled as a teenager and moved out of the family house when she was fifteen and into a trailer in the backyard.
"It {Christian music} was really good musically," Sandrine says. "But stylistically I wasn't so exposed to what was going on in the pop music world, and it would have been a little bit sort of bad because it was the 80's and the 90's."
