St. Vincent (Annie Clark)

That was that kind of music.

And I've always really liked heavy music.

But a lot of my time being about 14 on was kind of spent in my room recording myself and

First, it was like TASCAM, four tracks and stuff like that.

But then my uncle and aunt are a jazz duo called Tuck and Patty, who my uncle's one of the best guitar players in all of the world.

He's the finger style master.

But he's also an engineer.

And my stepdad was an engineer.

And

saw that I was really into recording myself and music.

And with the help of my Uncle Tuck and my stepdad, you know, facilitating it on the ground in Dallas, he helped build me a little early digital recording studio in my bedroom.

Yeah, so, and it was PC-based.

It was called Cakewalk Pro Audio.

I'm not sure if it still exists, but I could close the door to my bedroom and record myself.

I could sing along to Billie Holiday, and I could try to learn how to arrange and try to write songs.

And I had this mirror, which is recording, to kind of listen back and go, ooh.

I know how my heroes sound, and I don't sound anything like them yet.

I better keep going.

And that was really, really helpful, I think, for me in finding my voice, getting better, learning how to arrange, learning how to think about music.

And I'm so grateful to my stepdad, rest in peace, for...