Singer-Songwriter Yael Meyer

I know I’ve said it a million times before, but I LOVE THE INTERNET!  Last week I interviewed Allison Weiss on the Lyrical Venus Radio Hour.  She tweeted a link to the station where people can listen in from around the world.  One of Allison’s fans in The Netherlands tuned in, and afterward tweeted to me that I might like Yael Meyer.  A couple of song listens on her site and few emails with Yael later and I had an interview set up for this week!

To put it another way: a phone call between someone in Georgia and someone in Iowa was heard by someone in The Netherlands who then connected the Iowa person to someone in Los Angeles.  All in a matter of hours.  My mind is still blown.

So a big thank you goes out to @TimKro for tuning in from across the ocean and for introducing me to Yael!  And now I shall introduce her to you, dear readers!

A dancer and singer since childhood in her native Chile, Yael received a scholarship to Berklee College of Music at the age of 19.  It was there that she gained a deeper appreciation of the power of music and its ability to make a positive difference in the world.

Currently residing in L.A., Yael released her new Heartbeat EP just a couple months ago.  A beautiful blend of folk, pop and electronica, the delicate, delightful songs on Heartbeat will tickle your ears and put a smile on your heart. They are definitely making a positive difference in MY world!

Check out this video on the making of Heartbeat, featuring the song Shed Their Fear.  Along with the  guitar and piano that one might expect on a singer-songwriter album, you can see that Heartbeat includes horns, ukulele and glockenspiel (the same model I got for my birthday!).  The rich mix of instruments never overpower, but rather provide a luxurious fluffy bed of sound for Yael’s silky vocals.

If you like Shed Their Fear, you can get it for free by signing up to Yael’s email list, which you can do right here from Lyrical Venus by clicking the “get it now” button and entering your email in this widget!  Fancy!

Now go check your email and get your download!  Easy peasy right?

Feed and email readers may need to come to the blog to see the video and widget.

If one song isn’t enough, you can listen to more on Yael’s website:

http://www.yaelmeyermusic.com/

Then you can go be friends:

http://www.facebook.com/yaelmeyermusic

http://www.myspace.com/yaelmeyer

Yael is doing a lovely series of video podcasts on her YouTube channel, sharing a song a week.  So far they are all collaborations with some of her friends:

http://www.youtube.com/user/yaelmeyermusic

If you are on Twitter, don’t forget to follow Yael, you never know who she might introduce you to!
http://twitter.com/yaelmusic

Last but not least, join me Tuesday, February 2nd for an interview with Yael! Tune in to KRUU-LP 100.1 FM here in town or at http://kruufm.com online from 9-10am Central for the full hour of Lyrical Venus. Yael will be calling in at 9:30. That’s right, join me Tuesday, February 2nd for an interview with Yael! Tune in to KRUU-LP 100.1 FM here in town, http://kruufm.com online.

(My WordPress is SERIOUSLY messed up folks! It’s double posting my sentence about twitter at the end but cutting out the stuff about where to tune in to the interview. Attempts to fix have sometimes ended up in blending this post and Allison’s post below into one big post?!?! What the heck??? Maybe it will show up alright in the feed readers but for now it’s freaking me out, I’ve tried over 20 times and I’m exhausted, so I’m going to have to leave it like this and hope it works itself out somehow… or that a slightly fresher brain in the morning can figure it out.)

Last but not least, join me Tuesday, February 2nd for an interview with Yael! Tune in to KRUU-LP 100.1 FM here in town or at http://kruufm.com online from 9-10am Central for the full hour of Lyrical Venus. Yael will be calling in at 9:30.

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