Meet the multifaceted Alisha Westerman. She has been a solo act for years, but recently she has created a few new projects. Her father, Llewellyn Westerman, is a musician-turned-sailor who resides in the Virgin Islands. He has been a major influence on the Alisha’s laid back, whimsical, Indie, Caribbean, “be-careful-because-hurricanes-do-haunt-the-islands” style. Her vocals have been featured on tracks by Steve Aoki, 60 Watt Kid, 2Mex and Ikey Owens of the Mars Volta. Alisha and her sisters (pictured above) have a band called Mellow Mood, named after the Bob Marley song. In the past year she has moved from Long Beach to Brooklyn and has kept busy by working with a few new friends: Jim Schwartz from Innaway, Evan Prazner from The Shivers, and she recorded “Hand Over Your Heart” with Thomas Shelley.
As if that wasn’t enough work for three people, Alisha also writes poetry that she reads pretty regularly at poetry and spoken word festivals around the country. She has a plethora of youtube videos shot in cafe’s, her bedroom, her car - pretty much wherever. My fantastic picks:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqUK1YOQD0Q
Totally unrelated digression: check out Dennis Cooper’s blog about Hank Shocklee. Hank Shocklee if you happen to google yourself and come across this post, please hire me to work for your music talk show!
Back to Alisha:
Alisha Westerman - Hand Over Your Heart
Alisha Westerman - Anchor’s Aweigh
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