SkiP HappEns Podcast
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SkiP HappEns Podcast
Breaking Boundaries: Rebecca Correa's Journey Through Music and Life
What if musical genres were as fluid as emotions? Join us in an inspiring conversation with the multi-talented Rebecca Correa, as she uncovers the magic behind her latest single "Rose-Colored Glasses" and her eclectic musical journey. From her childhood in Dartmouth, Massachusetts to her vibrant performances along the Northeast coast and the iconic music scene of Nashville, Rebecca takes us on a captivating tour of her life's musical tapestry. We explore her summer gigs on islands like Martha's Vineyard and her plans to return to Nashville for an intense writing and recording season.
Rebecca's story is a tapestry of diverse influences and early passions. She reflects on her music, which blends folk, rock, Americana, pop, R&B, soul, and country, and the impact of her varied musical upbringing. Rebecca offers a fascinating take on the blurring lines between genres, with a nod to Post Malone's successful crossover into country music. We also dive into her roots: starting with piano, transitioning to guitar, and eventually collaborating with Grammy winner Keb' Mo'. Her journey is a testament to the power of early songwriting as an emotional outlet and the significant role Nashville connections have played in her career.
Beyond the chords and melodies, we uncover Rebecca's life off the stage. She shares her passion for running, highlighting the communal spirit of both the music and running communities. With twelve half marathons under her belt, including the Nashville Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon, Rebecca draws striking parallels between these two worlds. We touch on her experiences recording in prestigious studios and her love for local sports, particularly Nashville Predators games. Our conversation wraps up with a powerful note on female representation in the music industry, celebrating Rebecca's determination and positivity as she continues to make waves with "Rose Colored Glasses.
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And welcome to another edition of Skip Happens. A little music in the background kind of sets you up for what we're going to do here tonight. And talk to the artist of this brand new song. Give it a listen she wears rose-colored glasses. Even though it's out of fashion, rose-colored glasses.
Speaker 2:She floats on the wings of a dove Straight up to the sky, into the arms of love.
Speaker 1:What a voice, what a voice.
Speaker 2:Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1:And that's the young lady right there. Rebecca Correa is with us here tonight. This is called Rose-Colored Glasses. Hang on a second, let's listen. Young lady right there. Rebecca Correa is with us here tonight. This is called Rose Colored Glasses. Hang on a second. Let's listen. Here we go, she's on her way back home. So good, she's leaving all the bad things behind.
Speaker 1:Rose Colored Glasses. Now Rebecca Correa, as I mentioned just a moment ago, is with me here on Skip Happens Tonight. Welcome to it everybody. We're going to have a great conversation. You know, when we open up the mic and turn on the lights and all that good stuff, it's always a good time. Of course, we're in the Northeast and she is in the Northeast and that doesn't happen all that often on the podcast. Usually we're talking to an artist. I'll go where are you from. Or we're talking to an artist I'll go where you from or where are you right now, and they'll say I'm in nashville or I'm on the west coast, in california, I mean. But now it's completely the other way.
Speaker 2:Tell everybody where are you, rebecca I am in a little town called dartmouth, massachusetts I've actually heard of that it's a nice place. We're about about probably four miles from the ocean at most. Maybe in some aspects there's a couple of coves that are probably a mile away.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So do you live there, or are you just because you have a show there?
Speaker 2:I have been playing up here. I'm from here. I'm from a little town called Rochester, massachusetts, which is right outside of Cape Cod, and I grew up there. And then I live a good portion of the year in Nashville, tennessee. So normally I'm there, but this is sort of the end of my summer season. I come up and I play a ton of shows on the coast. Sometimes I get to the islands, martha's Vineyard and Kentucky.
Speaker 1:Nice, nice. But you said you spent a lot of time in Nashville.
Speaker 2:I do, I do. I moved there 17 years ago, almost to the day. It's been a long journey. I've been going there. I had some friends that were working in music there that said you got to come down and I took a trip back in 2006 and just fell in love with the place and just decided, like you know, I I love it here in massachusetts but I need to be around more of my music people you have to be where the action is so to speak yeah, no, no, I get that.
Speaker 1:I get that. But you know what, where you are in the northeast right now and the the seasons are changing I know here where we are in central new york, and they, the leaves are starting to change a little bit. It's a beautiful time to be in the Northeast.
Speaker 2:It is. It is, In fact, I just. I had a show out in Western Mass a few days ago and I was so lucky to take the Mass Pike out there and I went to school in West Hartford, Connecticut. This time of year is my absolute favorite time of year in New England. It's just like unbelievable those colors, and it just doesn't get better. The humidity leaves the air and it's just heaven every day.
Speaker 1:Exactly Now, right now in Nashville. I think they had a little bit of rain today because of the hurricane that came up through, but I believe the humidity was up a little bit. I had some friends out there as well, but uh, yeah, so when do you get to go back to Nashville?
Speaker 2:Well, actually I fly back on on Sunday, so I'll be. I'll be there, um and sort of. This time of year, fall into winter. I'm more stationed there doing work and networking and writing and recording.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's talk about your music a little bit. How would you describe yourself? Is it folk, is it rock, is it Americana? I think it's a little bit of all that, but how would you describe your music?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would say the same. It's hard for me to pick just one, because I grew up listening to incredible artists from all genres and I love, love music. When I went to college, it was a lot of classical music that I was experiencing, you know, the 90s, grunge, alternative music, love, love, love.
Speaker 1:And there.
Speaker 2:Folk. You know, being from New England, the folk scene up here is just so amazing. There's so many artists I could name that inspired me over the years. So I tend to think of my music as I just say singer-songwriter, because I figured that would be easiest. But I also sometimes will say pop. I make sure to say it's not bubblegum pop, it's. You know pop is short for popular, and so you know my music sometimes hovers in the rock department. Sometimes it's pop, sometimes it's americana, sometimes it's folk.
Speaker 1:I love r&b and soul so it's, it's sort of in that genre altogether, um those genres, I should say you know, and even the country genre kind of touches on all that now, more than it ever has. It's always been. You know, some folk, some Americana, but now you're hearing the rock, you're hearing, as you would say, the pop. Come out. I mean, just look at some of the artists that are coming up through and some of the shows. And for example, just to give you an example, saturday Post Malone's here in town and yeah, I know, and you know everybody's like well, you know he's not country, but he is country because he put out the country album which totally kicks ass, Totally. Every song on that album is a smash.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. I agree I agree. I think he did such a great job, really honoring the craft, yes, and you know he was so respectful when he came to town and you know, I know he he touched base with a lot of artists and people in town and he just he really nailed it on this record, I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly right, and he throws it back. You wouldn't think you would look at him and you go OK, he's actually from here, you know, from Syracuse. Really I, here's a true story. This is interesting Because, being on the air every afternoon here at a radio station in town and doing my thing, I have a listener that reached out to me one day. She sent me a classroom picture. She was a kindergarten teacher. She goes now, if you look in the lower right-hand corner, that's Post, but his real name's austin. So it's I go. Are you kidding me? I said you were his kindergarten teacher. She goes yes, then she sent me other pictures. Now he did move on shortly after. Then, I believe he went to texas or whatever. His parents had split up and all that, but uh, still, I mean I just I was like, wow, this is so cool, this is so cool, this is so cool.
Speaker 2:That would be so sweet if she was in the front row, you know, if you could get her there to.
Speaker 1:I know she wants me now. You know they're pretty strict with these shows nowadays, but I know we're supposed to be talking about you, but still it's. They're pretty strict with these shows and even for us as radio people to get backstage with post Malone is a little bit difficult. Sometimes it's who you know and how you go about doing it, but still it's not as easy as it used to be. But she she said if you could print out those pictures and take them with you that would be kind of cool. I know Exactly.
Speaker 2:I love that so much.
Speaker 1:Exactly. Let's go back to you Full circle here, but so your songwriting.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:You've been writing for a long time and tell me a little bit about your songwriting and how you're inspired to write what you write and all that.
Speaker 2:Well, I started writing when I was really young. I was in, uh, fourth grade when I wrote my first song. I had had had some piano lessons before then. I always gravitated towards music, but that's when I started. And I started, you know, just with simple melodies, simple words expressing, um, the the things that I was going through, whether it was happiness or sadness. I just started to learn to like, oh, I can put this into words, I can put this into a concept musically and share it with people. And I also noticed it seemed to like help other people around me with, you know, whatever it was that we were dealing with at the time. So I started just writing nonstopstop. In sixth grade I learned guitar. I had learned piano early on, but guitar I picked up in sixth grade and I just never looked back, always with writing.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. Now it's not only a guitar. I mean you. You play the piano a little bit too, I do that was my first instrument um.
Speaker 2:And I think in music terms. When I think of music you know music theory wise I'm always thinking in piano terms. And I play more guitar at shows because it's just such a social instrument, it's so easy to bring around. I got kind of tired of lugging my keyboard from gig to gig so I don't always have it with me.
Speaker 2:But on special occasions where, if I know, the venue has a piano or a grand piano, in that respect I'll I will sign up with bells on yeah, as long as it's there, I, I totally get that.
Speaker 1:Wait a minute, so that the now I've seen artists come through the radio station with carrying a keyboard, but there's different sizes. Right, is there an 86 key or what are they?
Speaker 2:Yeah, they have different sizes. I can't get away from the full 88.
Speaker 1:88, that's what I was thinking of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm so used to that, even though I don't really stretch to the bandwidth of a keyboard all the way, I can't seem to like. I just need to. I need it all there. I need to know all, all, all the octaves are going to be there for me if, if I want them to be so I, my keyboard is is a full 88.
Speaker 1:I love that. I love that, yeah, and that would probably be rather big for you to log around, hall around, so to speak.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1:Kind of what are you? What is one of your best? Your well-known album, what is? I know you had an album. I mean, how many albums have you done? Just the one. I um two you know.
Speaker 2:I started when I was really young and pro. It depends on who you, which fan of mine you speak to. Some people will say I have more than what I admit to, but but I there's. There's five that I consider, and the the one that the last record that I put out was produced by Kev Moe. He's a five-time Grammy award winning artist.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I was. I've I've known, I call him Kevin, so I'm going to refer to him as Kevin was. I've known, I call him Kevin, so I'm gonna refer to him as Kevin. But I've known Kevin since I was, since I moved to Nashville, basically, and he just has been a mentor and incredibly supportive to me and I'm so fortunate I had brought a song and a project to him years ago and I said you know I have this lofty goal and I know you're the right person to help accomplish this. And that was my song solid ground.
Speaker 2:And he he said, yeah, let's do this. And then, with the help of his record label at the time kind of blue music we put out the song solid ground and the music video that went along with that. Okay and so, yeah, and then we, after we finished that project, we were we, you know we were. So we were like we've got to do more, we can't just leave it up to song, so we ended up making an entire EP, a record that came out. It's called Grown Up Games. That came back that came out in 2019.
Speaker 1:So that's on all the platforms. What was the fire? Fire the fuck. What was there? An album called the fire the fire um am I?
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think what that, what song that might be? I don't know, or what record we had with love, each and every detail, soul of me. And then, um, we had another live record that I put out at one. Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:I know I was reading somewhere. You know trying to. I, like I said in the beginning, I really don't do a lot of homework. When I do these I'd rather just work off conversation. But uh, I did see somewhere something was written in the fire. I could be totally mistaken and if I am I apologize.
Speaker 2:But oh, it'll come the fire. I could be totally mistaken and if I am, I apologize. But oh, it'll come. Something will come jog back to me and I'll say, oh, that's what he was thinking of, you know.
Speaker 1:Wow, so you've you made the move to Nashville back in the early two thousands and you got hooked up with some pretty, um, pretty prominent people, and how did that come about? Like you were just talking about Kevin, I mean, was it just like did he hear you, did he know you before you went to Nashville, or what?
Speaker 2:he, he didn't um, our our dear mutual friend, kevin. So another Kevin um, who's out of Boston area, incredible artist I'm sure. He's played out there in the Syracuse area. He's incredible. And he actually invited me over to, you know, to come hang out with Kev Moe on another occasion. And that's, you know, struck the friendship and we just he would come to our shows and support us. And then one day he called me up and said, like let's write a song. And I'm like, did I hear him right?
Speaker 2:so I um, you know, I said, absolutely tell me when, where, and I'll be there, and that's so cool called so long goodbye and that ended up being on his blues americana record, uh, which came out I think it was 2013, okay and um, it was the last song of the record it ended up. The record ended up getting nominated for a grammy, which was, like you know it, wow. It was so special to be a part of something like that because I could never in my wildest dreams had had imagined that that would unfold like that. And then I I begged him on on my record to do a version with me of singing that song, so we did it as a duet together on that record wow, did you feel intimidated at all, or nervous, or going?
Speaker 1:oh my god, this is. I can't believe this is really happening, but we're going to do it and I hope, yeah, yeah, right so, so many times, so many times it really is surreal Because where I grew up, we don't come in contact with people in the industry.
Speaker 2:Nashville is just a melting pot of so, so many artists and you're just on the grocery store line and you look over and so-and-so is in the line checking out, and it's surreal, um, and I, it's taken me probably, you know, over a decade being in Nashville to get used to that concept. So, yeah, it was definitely intimidating and overwhelming. But he makes it so, um, makes you feel good yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and eventually you forget and you just, you realize that you're you, you just you realize that you're, you know you're, you're there for a reason you're, you're meant to be there and and you have a camaraderie and a connection that brought you together I love that when, when you go back to nashville, what part of town do you live in? I live, uh, in a place called leaper's fork and um okay not in nashville, it's, it's technically in Franklin Tennessee.
Speaker 1:Franklin.
Speaker 2:I know where Franklin is okay yep, and I, um, the first year that I went to Nashville, I went out there to visit and I just fell in love with it, just rolling, you know, rolling green hills, fields, horses, farmland and I grew up on a farm. So I was like, okay, this feels right. I I like the city, but I like to be able to escape. And so, um, I've been living there now for, let's see, um 11 years now out in that part. So we're just about 30 minutes outside of town, which isn't far no, but that's on a good day yeah, yeah, well, you don't need things to change, yeah and that was gonna.
Speaker 1:That's leading me into my next question. When you move there to nashville in the early 2000s, um, how has that changed from your perspective between then? And let's say, when you go back there in a day or two or a couple, a few days, uh, how has nashville changed? I know it's gotten packed and there's probably a crane on every corner oh yeah, but uh it is just the skyline looks completely different.
Speaker 2:Uh, it's got to be at least five times, you know, busier down there in terms of the skyline and people just moving in. I think there was a stat that was being thrown around at one point there was like 100 people per day or per week or something, something crazy like that, that were moving there, and so when I got there, it was a very, very small town, vibe, you know everybody knew everybody and it, you know, everybody knew everybody and you could park on Broadway, you could park your car. There were no meters. It was like you just got out and you did your thing, and now it's just a very different beast. It became extremely popular. It was popular before, but now it's like unfathomable.
Speaker 1:Well, I think everybody knows that that's like the hub for just about almost all genres of music.
Speaker 1:No, it doesn't have to be country yes and uh, you know, there's so much history there. Plus, you know, all the major superstars are putting their name on a bar, somebody's doing whatever so they can get their name on a bar and it's just, it's, it's, it's. It's kind of crazy and I'll tell you a crazy story. A year ago, june, my wife and I went out there for the NASCAR NASCAR race. We stayed right downtown at the Omni and the we got out of the race early enough. We got back and I said honey, let's go, we're going to walk over to Broadway, let's see what's going on tonight. Well, that was a mistake, because it was saturday night oh no yeah, you know, you know where I'm going with this.
Speaker 1:The road was closed because it's just nothing but bachelorette parties. You could walk on the heads of people there. Everybody was crowded together. Yeah, uh, there were things you don't want to discuss happening on the corner. Uh, you know, just, it was just a mess and it was a line, like long lines, to get into some of these really cool places. So I said, oh, that's it. Okay, we're too old for this. We're gonna go back to the hotel and we'll have a cocktail there.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, yeah, we have this thing. You know where. You know Nashville, ian's and and Tennesseans, we like we never go to Broadway, like right. I know unless we have a friend that's playing, like when Lily, who's featured on my song, she, she and her family band play at Layla's on Broadway.
Speaker 2:They've been playing. That's actually. She was one of the very first people that I met when I moved to Nashville and she she was 16 years old at the time playing at Layla's, and it just like blew my mind and I I'm just like. This girl is so special, she is such a special being and I've, um, you know, struck up a friendship with her and her family and have followed and supported her music for years. Um, when they've come up for tour, they've actually played. We have a farm, um in rochester, my family farm, and she's performed there, yeah, and um, circling back, uh, she's actually um you at the show this weekend you might see her because she's in post malone's band.
Speaker 1:What yes, what yes. So I gotta look for li May.
Speaker 2:Lily May.
Speaker 1:It will be on stage with Post Malone she plays in his band she plays fiddle for Post, yeah, I'm glad you told me, yeah, exactly how cool I was gonna mention it earlier, but I figured we'll keep it a little secret for a little while longer you know you'd be really surprised.
Speaker 1:I know, for example, you're talking about Lily being with Post, being with posty, but then, um, I want to say about a month ago, we have a big amphitheater here and of course you know how that goes. All the big shows come through with live nation and what have you. But, um, jake owen was part of a big show one night and charlie warsham plays guitar with jake owen. Cohen and Charlie's done a lot of his own stuff too, and it's like that's Charlie oh yeah, that's cool, the Charlie yes yeah, that was.
Speaker 1:That was very cool. So tell me a little bit more about this relationship with Lily, because I see the song Rose Colored Glasses she's on that label with you, or I see the picture of her on the cover with you.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:How did that come about?
Speaker 2:So when I wrote the song, I wrote it at my friend's kitchen table, in Leaper's Fork, and it was me reflecting on different inspiring stories from women in my life that have gone through different challenges, and I was reflecting on that and after I wrote it, I, you know, I said I gotta, I gotta record this. This is one of my next projects and I thought to myself you know someone who could really carry this message with me, that could really relate and share this story, especially as women in the music industry. There's not. We're outnumbered, let's put it that way.
Speaker 1:Well, we need more.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we need more, and we're there where we are, we do, we are existing there in the music industry, but um, in in Nashville, but there are less of us, and so she and I both have had our triumphs and our challenges within the industry, you know, related to being a woman, but also just in general, and so I knew that she would be able to tell that story really well, because she's just such a deep, deep soul, an old soul, a deep soul, and it's a song about perseverance and challenges and struggles, and I knew that she would be be able, she'd be able to carry that message.
Speaker 2:So, um, I reached out to her and and asked if she would take part in and, be you know, sing a verse and sing the harmonies, and she ended up putting fiddle on, which is she plays fiddle for post malone.
Speaker 1:So so cool, no, yeah I know it is so cool, it is so cool.
Speaker 2:But she, I know it is so cool, it is so cool, but she's you know, I'm not surprised, because she is such a star, she is such a very, very special artist and musician, and she's not the first big artist that has, you know, tapped her shoulder.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's cool, you know, and for you to now have that type of relationship with her where you both musicians as well. So, um, when we did the studio.
Speaker 2:We went into the studio to record it. She said, you know, aberdeen was so little and she's like I, you know I can't leave her at home, so she needs to come with me, and that's fine. So I, we take turns holding her between takes and she was a part of it, which is really special because it is so adorable. Um, you know, it's a song about perseverance that anyone can relate to, but specifically it talks about she off oftentimes in the song um, and so it was really special to have her, a little one, um, there with us and have that be part of the story yeah, you know just, you've been in nashville since the early 2000s.
Speaker 1:You've got great music out there. I you know the number of albums, the songs that you've put out and all that. But to get where you are today, what do you think has been your biggest challenge?
Speaker 2:I think, um, my biggest challenge has been um perseverance. It goes along with the song because it's it. Industry is so unpredictable. You know, when I really started this journey, things were so, so different. You know, cds were the thing. You know, we're the model and it the the whole industry in terms of streaming has turned around, or even podcasts that that didn't exist at the time.
Speaker 2:You know, um, so, just to be able to adapt and persevere through the changes and then also have, you know, faith in yourself and and um confidence that you'll find your way, and just to keep getting up and doing it, um, I I know there've been a lot of colleagues of mine that have gone into, you know, especially after everything that's happened in the last four years, um pandemic, um a lot of artists that I know or um musicians have have gone into real estate or things like that. They've, you know, tacked on other things to keep themselves afloat. So, um, just being really grateful for, grateful for getting up and continuing it on, even in the seasons or the times, or the momentary times where I was like, should I be doing it? Like, is this really the best, you know, the best choice to be making? But I knew, I've always known, that I was supposed to share my messages with whoever wants to hear them. I, I just I knew that I had to keep a foot in one way or another. So that's that's what I would say is perseverance.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. That's awesome If, if you weren't doing music or putting out great music like rose colored glasses, what do you think you would be doing?
Speaker 2:Gosh, I have my degree in music education and I do teach a little, and I really can't imagine not doing something that involved music. So I think, one way or another, I would be involved in that. I think teaching is one of the most important things that we have in our society.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2:And teachers don't get enough credit. Absolutely For what they do. It's really hard. I'm the daughter of a first grade teacher, a retired public first grade teacher. My mom, day in and day out, go and teach 28 to 20 to maybe 30, you know children every day and teach them how to read. It's it. It takes someone special that has a lot of patience to be able to do that year out.
Speaker 1:It's what my daughter does. She's in Virginia and she's a reading specialist. She, she's a teacher and I'm so proud of her for what she's in Virginia and she's a reading specialist. She, she's a teacher and I'm so proud of her, uh, for what she's doing. And you hear a lot of what these teachers have to put up with. People are people and sometimes people can suck, so just saying, you know, being a teacher, you have to, you have to be pretty strong and be able to put up with a lot. So and she does the reading she, you know, in, uh, outside Newport news, virginia.
Speaker 2:So oh wow, Good for her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely, but it's cool that you got that degree too. So, more or less, and not that I can see this happening, but you got something to fall back on a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's funny Cause I never thought of it it that way. I just thought I was just doing what I was doing and yeah, I tell everyone that, um, you know my education at the heart school. I went to the heart school of music. Uh, it's music, dance and theater, now that they consider it. But, um, and I, that music education degree was so well-rounded we had to do everything from percussion class, like play a drum set, to play a trumpet, to sight reading, to, um, conducting class, like everything. It was just so all-inclusive. It so prepared me for what I'm doing day in and day out as a, as a songwriter. So, um, you know, I never think of it as a fallback because I just think like it's something that's running parallel all the time. And I have my students now that I teach and they help me hone in on my craft and you know, I'll review things with them that make it even clearer in my mind, you know, when you rehash it and you relay it to somebody.
Speaker 2:That's when you're like, okay, I really understand this concept To see them thrive in it and perform and find the confidence. It's really, really cool.
Speaker 1:Tell me, Rebecca, tell me a little bit about your shows. I read that they're high energy and you really know how to connect with the audience.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do a lot of storytelling in my shows. Like I said, going back to the folk scene in New England and upstate New York, I'm trying to think of the room that's up there, saratoga Springs, oh yeah. Yes, I'm trying to think yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it that scene you know, plummeting down and then taking you up and hills and valleys. I just really cut my teeth on that scene and also going to learn from them.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I ended up opening up for a number of artists along the way a lot at the Iron Horse in Northampton.
Speaker 1:Love it.
Speaker 2:And that really, really prepared me for what I need to do, because if I can do it on my own, then with other people on board, on the band, on stage, I'm only going to have that much more power. Um, so, um, yeah, I think sometimes you know people that are come to see me. It's if they have never seen me before, it's a lot of original music. So you're being you're, you're doing a deep dive into music that you may not recognize at first, and I, I tend to do a few covers here and there. Um, I do um some Whitney Houston, tend to do a few covers here and there. Um, I do um some whitney houston. Oh nice, I'm alanis morissette and, um, I do a cover of, always on my mind. So I do some classic country and different things like that, um, but a lot of its original music.
Speaker 2:So, um, that's cool my fans get used to the stories behind behind the music and I try to try to get some laughter in there every once in a while even I love that even in the serious moments like now we're laughing.
Speaker 1:This is cool, exactly. I love this. I love this. Um, when, uh, tell me a little bit, have you experienced anything that's out of this world while you're on stage? Anything crazy ever happen, any something that will stick in your mind going man, I'll never forget that day or something like that. Have you ever had anything like that?
Speaker 2:I think everybody has something yeah, I, I have so many great memories from shows that you know just people you know coming up to me after and saying you know just people you know coming up to me after and saying you know that song really touched me and really moved me. Those are, those are my favorites, and I'm sure that there's some wild and crazy story that'll, um, that'll come to mind, for sure, and maybe you don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 2:I don't know, no, no no but those, those are the moments that get me the most is like when people really connect with her. You know crying or you know whatever. They have a story that they share with me, that they connected from my song, that's really special.
Speaker 1:Yeah, rebecca, what do you do when you want to disconnect from music for a little bit? If you do, is there something? Do you like to walk, run, do you just I don't know if you have a dog or not go for a walk with the dog, or, or whatever yeah, I, I love running, I am a.
Speaker 2:I got into running okay, early 2000s and I I grew up very, you know, very athletic, just always being involved in, you know, gym class, gymnastics, horse riding, all these things, and I never considered myself a runner because I just was like this. So I thought at the time, boring and like monotonous and like painful. And then, yeah, um, I just started, I went, I went out and, um, just started writing running like you know a mile, and then I went a little further and just kept building upon that and I ended up.
Speaker 2:I've ended up um running about 12 half marathons at this point, wow girl, I've run the. Nashville four times, and then um the half marathon, and then, uh, the New Bedford marathon.
Speaker 1:Half marathon I've run still do the St Jude run in Nashville, don Don't they? Isn't there a yeah, yeah, the rock and roll half marathon? Yes, that's it.
Speaker 2:They do the full and the half, but I'm I'm like 13 miles is more than enough, is more than enough.
Speaker 1:Well, you said that when you first started running that it was like all right, well, I don't know if I want to do this, but I'll do it. But then you kind of made it. Wasn't that you made yourself do it, you wanted to do it Cause I hear that from a lot of people that run. You know, once you get started, you're going to always want to stay with it.
Speaker 2:Yes. Yeah, it's it's really a very um spiritual sport. You know it's deep and the people that you meet through that it's kind of like music, that same community. You see a lot of the same people at the races. You find each other online. That's cool. Even in Nashville I've met a number of people that are very serious runners and have just stayed connected with them.
Speaker 1:Have you had the opportunity to be on any type of radio tour over the over the years? Have you? In the beginning, did you go? That's I'll be honest with you. That's because I'm in my own podcast studio here and being with the radio station when an artist would come through, you know, to meet the program director and you do a little bit of an interview on air and you play their song on the radio and and all that. But I always made it a point that they spent the night in town because they come over here in my podcast studio and we would get pizza, wings and beer and we would have a great conversation.
Speaker 1:There's been a lot of artists that have actually come to the house, that's. I am downstairs, I have my own studio and you know we would hang out, we'd have a great time and then the pandemic hit. Hence now this is what we're doing. But have you had that opportunity to hit up radio stations? Has your publicist set any of that up for you, or is there people that do that, or do you do all that up by yourself?
Speaker 2:Well, up until recently I've been, you know, kind of doing that on my own. You know, with the connections that I have. I did a lot of networking earlier on, but now I'm connected with a wonderful company in Nashville called Aristo Media.
Speaker 1:Yes, they're great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're amazing and they have connected me with a number of podcasts and phone interviews type things, so I'd never really done it. My only real deep dive into the radio world per se before this was I have a friend that I went to the Hart School with that ended up going um and working right out of college for sirius satellite radio very cool and he's been there for some time. So back in 2009 uh, he pulled some strings and on new year's day because that's the only day that they're closed down we went in and we recorded a record in the main studio there, a solo record. So it was a lot of fun and I can't believe that it was that long ago that we did it, but it was really cool because the place was completely quiet and New York in general can be so overwhelming when you go there, because it's just larger than life.
Speaker 2:And it was just you know. We took that elevator up to the top floor or whatever floor they're on, and, just you know, took over for the day. It was really cool.
Speaker 1:Have you had a chance in Nashville to visit the studios that they have?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I've been to a number of the studios down there and a lot of the studios that I have worked in. I worked in Kevin's studio, at Moe's studio and then I also just made my record at the Purple House, which is in Leapers Fork. So I've done a few background vocals for people over the years where people have, you know, invited me to their sessions in town. But most of the work that I've done have been in those two studios.
Speaker 1:Yeah, have you been to the Sirius studios?
Speaker 2:I oh that. No, I haven't there, not, not yet.
Speaker 1:Oh, but, and the other one? No, that's cool hearing about that. That's cool. Yeah, that's pretty cool set up downtown. So, and student, no, that's cool Hearing about that, that's cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's pretty cool set up downtown. So yeah, it is, it is, I there's, there's so much to see, it's, it's, it's ever changing when you go down there. I go down. I'm like where am I? I don't know.
Speaker 1:No, I know I get it. I get it. Do you take in a predators game or maybe the Titans or anything like that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've been to a few preds games. I have some friends um that are, uh, a part of that whole scene. That has got me in a few times um.
Speaker 1:I have yet to be at a titans game because I'm from new england, I'm a new england fan, I'm sorry, that's too loud admit to it we got the bills here, then we got the giants and we got the jets giants and we got the Jets Giants and the Jets suck, but the Bills are playing tonight.
Speaker 2:We all have our seasons, you know we do? We had a good run there for a while. We did.
Speaker 1:And how about the baseball? Do you ever go to their AAA team in Nashville? The Sounds.
Speaker 2:I have been to a Sounds game. Yes, yeah, I have. It was a lot of fun and I I believe it or not being from massachusetts, two years ago was the first time that I went to fenway to see the red socks. I I know how could I get this far?
Speaker 2:rebecca but I finally went, but and I'm going again, I'm gonna go again. Uh, the plan is to go on on the 18th um of september, this you know, next week, because post malone is playing at fenway and, um, I might have an in there do you think we're gonna talk about that here in a little bit?
Speaker 1:because if there's a way that I can get those pictures back to post, I don't need to go. But if she could just take them back and go, look, what somebody gave me is this well, well there, where there's will, there's a way there is. We'll talk about that. Uh, Rebecca Korea is who we're talking to tonight, and skip happens. Uh, if somebody wants to find out more about you, more about your music, buy your music, maybe some merchandise. Where can they go?
Speaker 2:They can go to Rebecca Koreacom and that's R E B E CC A C O R R E I Acom. And if you can't remember, it's E, I, e I A. My cousin taught me that.
Speaker 1:I love that. It's right there on the screen too. You should be able to see it. It's like right.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, right there.
Speaker 1:So that's kind of cool. That's kind of cool. You know, rebecca, you're such a great person. Thank you so much for coming on tonight talking about you, talking about the music and hopefully, hopefully we get a few more fans for you. You've already got a great fan base, man, you're. You're kicking some butt but a rose colored glasses. Give it a listen. If you haven't listened yet and you're watching this, as soon as we get done here, give it a listen. I think you're going to love it. This young lady right here has got a hell of a voice and definitely you know she hasn't gone back yet, so this is a good sign. She's been in Nashville since early 2000s and you know, we just wish you the best.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much, Skip. I appreciate that. It was great talking with you.
Speaker 1:Appreciate that. It was great talking with you. Yeah, same here. And one quick question have you ever been to the Country Radio Seminar?
Speaker 2:I haven't, I have not believe it or not?
Speaker 1:February.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying Look it up. Look it up, it's Country Radio Seminar. It's in February. Anybody that's anybody is usually there and it's based out of the Omni Hotel downtown. But I've been going for well over 20 years. Awesome, it's always a great thing. There's a lot of things to learn, a lot of networking, a lot of fun. Yeah, I love it. I have a bar stool with my name on it down in Bar Lines, which is the hotel or the bar in the Omni. So I'm just saying pal.
Speaker 2:I love that. Maybe we can see each other in person and have a conversation.
Speaker 1:Exactly I would like to, I'd love to meet you someday and just, I really appreciate what you're doing and we need more people like you. We need more females on the radio. We need this is what we need.
Speaker 2:I agree. I so appreciate that and you know we're here and we're ready.
Speaker 1:Let's go.
Speaker 2:And we're not taking no for an answer.
Speaker 1:I love it. I love it already. I love this attitude. Rebecca Correa, thank you so much for joining us here tonight on Skip Happens. I want you to hang out there for a minute, but thank you for watching everybody and make sure you look her up, rebecca Correa. You can see her name right there up. Rebecca Correa, you can see her name right there. That's how you spell it, and if I go this way, I have to. It's always the opposite of what I'm looking at here. So this way you got to get rose colored glasses is the new single that dropped early September, the 4th or something like that. So yeah that's cool.
Speaker 1:Thanks for joining us everybody. Rebecca, Thank you.
Speaker 2:My pleasure.
Speaker 1:Bam, you are so.
