Quick Overview – In a Nutshell
Singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, chocolate chip cookie queen, meditator, lover of pop and multi-cultural fusions of music, huge fan of personal transformation, Ariana’s recorded music has been heard on national television, radio stations across America, and internet radio and television. Live performances have been seen and heard in venues from the Hollywood Bowl, to the Los Angeles Convention Center, to the Olympics village.
Musical Style
Her powerful, positive indie pop songs and heart-opening music have been flavored by her passions for alternative, rock, jazz, classical, R&B, the textures and rhythms of Middle Eastern and Latin cultures. If you listen, you’ll hear echoes of these influences in her indie pop songs.
Early Leanings
Award Winning Fashion Designer
Flashback to her first career while still in school as a designer of watches and jewelry, and then creating costumes for the Los Angeles Ballet Theatre. After graduating from UCLA with an art degree she began a successful career as a fashion designer. Ariana had no idea yet that she was going to become a musician.
Opening her own menswear business with her partner, singer Lou Rawls, she quickly won a National Design award for her creations. Some of her designs and interviews appeared in the Calendar and View sections of the L.A. Times and Newsweek Magazine, as well as in the major fashion trade magazines.
Wedding Bells
Then marriage took her away from the fake tinsel of the fashion world for the real tinsel of baking pies. That lasted for about six months (not the marriage, the stay at home career). So it was back to the design world for her, creating fashions for young women.
Musical Ventures
Pop, Rock, Jazz
With a strong, growing pull to create music, she began spending nights and weekends fronting a jazz band called Zephyr.
Then she was writing for and performing with a country/rock band, High Noon, garnering rave reviews from music Connection (“a most captivating and original singer…strong, personable stage presence…”). The Olympic Committee gave High Noon the unforgettable opportunity to play three consecutive nights to thousands at the Olympic Village.
From Hollywood Bowl to TV
Here are a few other highlights since then:
- Composed the title themes from the “Future Consciousness” TV show and the “Ancient Wisdom for the Twenty First Century” TV show, on air since 2004.
- Had a song on the CBS TV series “Hard Times On Planet Earth.”
- Performed twice at the Hollywood Bowl, first in a choir and second in a quartet.
- Had an indie record deal with SOVI Records.
- Toured nationally as lead singer and dancer with Déjà vu.
- Performed on the main stage at the Los Angeles Convention Center for the Annual International Rotarians Convention.
Awards
In addition to design awards, she was honored as one of the winners of the John Lennon Songwriting Competition. Also, she received a Harmony Sweepstakes national a cappella competition aware as a member of The Joy of Six.
CDs
She has two self-produced CDs, INSPIRE, released in the summer of 2007, and JOY JOY JOY, released in the summer of 2010. She’s currently simultaneously recording the third and fourth.
