Elise Conour, 11

Jessica Konrad, Student Section Reporter

“I feel like (songwriting) is a really good way for me to express exactly what I want to say to everyone in the world without them really knowing it’s coming from me because I write under a pseudonym a lot… When I was little, my mom used to come into my room and we used to just make up songs off the top of our heads, so when I got older I wrote them down. Then, when I was 10, I called this record label and I was like, ‘Hey, I really want to write songs for you,’ and they said, ‘No.’ So then for two weeks I called them and I called them again and then they finally said, ‘Yes.’”

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