We were lucky to catch up with Sara Snyder recently and have shared our conversation below.

Sara, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?

My most recent release, Back in Oslo, is very meaningful and personal. I studied at LIMPI in Norway a few years ago, but more than that it became a marker for me and my personal growth. Returning to a place you’ve done some serious growing in is a mental trip. To walk the same streets in a different head space. To know that where you were isn’t where you are. I wrote this song in Lillehammer last year on my first visit back since I graduated — the pandemic might have made that gap even larger. Returning back to that school and those studios to write this song was like holding the hand of my younger self and that’s why this song is so important to me.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I started singing very young and that led me to every stage I could get on. Music moved me and I could sense how I touched people when I sang so I let that lead me. When I started writing my own music, it all clicked. I had been living in LA, uninspired and stagnant, when I applied and got in to the Lillehammer Institute for Music Production and Technologies, Stargate’s mentorship program in Norway. I dove into songwriting and since then, I’ve been honing my sound and making my way in the industry. I love performing live and can’t wait to do more of that in the upcoming year. My desire to build community within my project shows with the release of my last few songs. For example, I hosted a 30 person dance class in Los Angeles to not only learn choreography to my new song Body Alarms, but to discuss and express feelings of disassociation and turning our nervous systems back online. When I’m not in the studio I also teach songwriting at the Los Angeles Academy of Artists and Music Production, which is incredibly fulfilling. All I want to do is make music that makes people FEEL.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

Supporting and funding arts and creative programs in schools. If people from a young age have the space to try and fail and create without a box, there’s no telling what they can make. To help artists and creators right now, support their work in a way that pays them, not someone else! Donate to their GoFundMe pages, buy their merchandise, follow them on Spotify/Apple Music — these are small, very doable things that go a long way to help musicians out.

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Image Credits
Live photo: Dustin Genereux Canvas backdrop: Whitney Otte Green backdrop: Joseph Bishop