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Music Saved Me with Singer-Songwriter Cecilia Castleman
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Join your host Lynn Hoffman with Glassnote Music singer songwriter Cecilia Castleman on Music Saved Me. She discusses how music became a central force in her life when her parents divorced when she was 11 years old and how she worked through her emotions with a guitar and pen Cecilia has new music out with her song called "It's Alright" and we hope you love her authenticity and spirit showcasing the power of music
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music saved me. Time really does heal. I'm a completely different person from back
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then than what I was now and I think I everything that's hard it just you
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just mature I think I think I wouldn't be right here if I didn't go through
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everything back then so I think it's hard as it is in the moment I think in a
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weird way you learn a lot of beneficial lessons from it. I'm Lynn Hoffman and
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welcome to the music saved me podcast the show where we talk with musicians
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about the deep healing power of music. Now if you like our podcast I hope you do
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follow us and share with your friends please and thank you. We talk with
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Hall of Famers and Rising Stars and today I get to speak with glass note
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records recording artist Cecilia Castleman. Her latest single is called
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Looking for June and her self-titled debut album will be out in early 2025.
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Let's explore Cecilia's inspiring journey and how music has impacted her life
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on music saved me. Cecilia welcome to music saved me it's so good to have you.
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Thank you thanks so much for having me. So I'm gonna start off with I'm hoping it's
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not a hard question but I just need to know do you feel that music has healing
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powers? Oh a thousand percent yeah I mean that's the the whole reason I got
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through my childhood was because of music so. Well let's let's talk a little bit
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about that. Let's start off with your first experiences that led you to your
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deep connection with music. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Sure I mean
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I just remember always having a guitar within reach both of my parents were
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musicians and so instead of you know giving me 20 bucks to go to the mall it
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was here. Here's a guitar you know that's something free to do but yet you know
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now it's it's become such a priceless thing in my life and yeah I was just my
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mom just sort of bottle fed me everything music wise since I was you know such
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a young adult and I just remember growing up on you know flute and mac and
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prince and John Mayer and I would say we didn't have a lot of money growing up my
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mom and I and so I would just save my lunch money and we'd go to Best Buy to the
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clear clear section back going Best Buy you know how to music section and I
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would pick out records and that that's what I did and and that's all I did I
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don't remember ever doing anything else besides you know mowing the art and
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listening directly. Wow now was it was it music and writing songs was it writing
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songs first and then writing the music for you? It was always I love guitar I'm
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like a super guitar head so it was always me you know writing a track and then
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sort of putting melodies and words over it yeah. Now would you often write just
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for yourself and not to share with others or did you write it thinking it was
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for other people to listen to? I wrote it for myself I wouldn't show anyone
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like no one in school knew I even played guitar loved music as much as I did I
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I think I I kept it to myself because I didn't want anyone to have really
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opinions about it subconscious and I think I yeah that's all I did and it wasn't
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until later when I got a publishing deal and everything that people were like
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oh you like you do music and and I was like yeah I always did but I think I I
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kept it that private for a reason because it was so sacred to me. Yeah so it's
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very personal for sure anyone I've ever talked to is always said you know it's
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like I always use this example it's like birthing children you know and then
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you you put them out there for the world to judge and you have no say over what
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anyone else thinks about it and you can hope but you just don't know I was just
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listening to your song it's all right and I actually was watching the video and
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you play a mean guitar at the beginning of the show I'd asked you if you thought
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music had healing powers and that song and the words sort of resonated did that
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have anything to do with your life with maybe your parents because I know when
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you were very young it was pretty traumatic for you for them to get divorced and
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as a child of divorced parents myself I can totally connect with that yeah they
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split when I was 11 which was when I was started writing and yeah it's all
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right it's it's very much so that like it's my restless sort of rebellious song
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that I'm talking to myself in that song like you know everything is gonna be fine
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you're gonna you're gonna make it through you're gonna grow up and you're gonna you
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know find your way as like a young girl in this world and and everything's
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gonna be fine and and I write a lot in third person but all of those songs on my
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record are about you know me and it's sort of a way to sort of shield me and not you
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know I expose everything which I guess I just did but yeah it's all right that's
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that's about me saying everything's gonna be fine that was so interesting because
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before I heard that and I had no idea that that's what that song was about but I
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knew it was something that was going on in your life do you believe that the
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music has an ability to give people hope oh if hasn't percent yeah if I didn't have
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all of those records that I did growing up and and sort of that drive to to do
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something with my life I mean I I came from nothing I didn't have anything
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growing up but those songs and and what I could play and what I could make myself
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so yeah it it gives me hope for the future for sure I mean I wouldn't have
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anything without it and if it went away I don't know what I'd do so yeah a thousand
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percent did you know when you were writing songs that it was like therapeutic for
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yourself or did you just know that you felt good after you got it on paper how
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did it how did that work in your mind sure I think it was also conscious back
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then I think I did it and I I do it now and I still don't know the reason why I
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think that's what's so magical about music it was very much so I was
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subconscious think for me back then in the words that I write I would have never
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set out loud but somehow I felt a way that I could through you know lyrics so
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yeah I got it all out you know 1617 and a record deal at 21 am I right yeah that's
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pretty amazing yeah I was I was I was very lucky that I had such
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great mentors and and you know everyone around me um yeah I still have a long way
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to go but it's been fun
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I can't I can't take it I mean it's still so new for me to to hear people like
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um sing words back to me that I just have to look the other way and most of
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time it's really nice because I can I you know it's so dark I can't really see
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anyone the smaller shows here in Nashville and I see people whether it's like
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my friends or even my mom like I I just can't I have to look away or it's gonna
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make me not be able to finish so and just break down and cry but um I mean that's
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the dream that's all I've ever wanted is as for you know people to sort of
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find company within my songs and and make them feel better about stuff or or
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make them cry or you know whatever they're feeling um yeah that it's wild to me
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it's very surreal I bet especially going from not wanting to share any of it to
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having it be so out there yeah can you just write what it's like when you're
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writing a song or when you're creating the music to a song what comes first and
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and what's your process and also when you are going through something as a young
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child whatever it was um what music an artist did you turn to maybe specific
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songs that you listen to that helped you through those times um when I was growing
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up it was a lot of fluid back I remember that my mom got me that tusk record
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for my 15th birthday and I just got my permit and um if you'd gotten me that and
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um there's a song on on there called Storms that that Stevie Nicks I'm a huge
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Stevie Nicks fan I think she's like the best thing that's you know in the world
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and um all of her lyrics really resonated with me growing up I think because I
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was just uh she showed a woman's heart even though I obviously wasn't a woman um then
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but I could just feel like that feminine sort of you know a woman trying to figure
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out her life and and going through stuff and heartbreak and I really resonated with
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her um growing up obviously still too um but it was songs like Storms and beautiful
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child and um you know Sisters of the Moon sort of that rage you know but also the
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vulnerability of being a woman and um it was a lot of her but then I loved like um you
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know very heavy guitar music I feel like everything I listened to it was very
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guitar happy Tom Petty John Mayer Prince um all the Lindsay Buckingham stuff um I
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very much so gravitated towards all of that um and yeah I think it's because I
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grew up you know Nash was very um it's super country and and which is awesome but
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I think once I heard that like rock stuff I was like yeah like that's what I needed
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to have you met anyone from Fleetwood Mac or Stevie no no I'm in my
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tension from heartbreakers he played on my record crazy amazing yeah I met
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John Mayer but no Stevie Nix is like my she's like if I smell a duet somewhere
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down the road well tell me this and I'm sure she would be so excited if she was
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listening to this that that you had that she had such an impact on you she's
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super sweet I've worked with her I've been lucky enough to and yeah you'll you'll
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find out I'm sure in the not too distant future can I ask what you would give
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for advice to someone who may be dealing with some difficult times in their
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life of what you would suggest for them in terms of any part of the song making
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writing listening process sure yeah that's so tough because you kind of don't know
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I mean everyone acts sort of differently no matter what you know people go
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through but I think it's just it's I mean it's hard because some people are for
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me when I went through everything I was very shy like I just becomes
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became silent I would go to school and I would remember I could go all day and
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not say a word to anyone and I think it's it's I can see people you know the
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quiet ones I feel like always have the best stories just growing up in school
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and you know the the ones that like wouldn't say anything it would sort of hide
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and were those were the thinkers and those are the dreamers to mean I don't know
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it's so hard to go through things no matter how little or how big but I guess
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just taking it day by day and and time really does heal I'm a completely different
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person from back then than what I was now and I think I everything that's
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hard it just you just mature I think I think I wouldn't be right here if I
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didn't go through everything back then so I think it's hard as it is in the
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moment I think in a weird way you learn a lot of beneficial lessons from it
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but no no that was a wonderful answer and I have this feeling that you're a very old
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soul not just from the artist that you grew up listening to because you blow me
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away I mean those are all of the artists I grew up listening to and you're half
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my age so it's it's it's pretty amazing I'm just so excited for you and I hope
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that all good things continue in your life and in your career and I will be
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looking forward to your self title debut you said it was coming out in 2025 yeah
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day before my birthday January 24th oh my goodness how exciting and looking for
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June is the single that'll be out soon as well yeah June is out and then yeah we
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might have one more before the album I'm not sure awesome well thank you so much
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for coming on the show and and good luck and it you just making me smile so much
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I can't even think about how to say goodbye but I'm very excited for you and it's
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always wonderful to see new artists coming up and coming and and doing great
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things and thank you thank you thank you this is so so fun thanks for having me