We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Anna Moon. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Anna below.

Anna, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?

While every project I’ve worked on has been deeply meaningful to me in it’s own unique way, the one that stands out is my recent EP release under Anna Moon titled Psychic Visions. I wrote all the songs during the pandemic, just me and my guitar. I had been making indie pop music for a decade and hadn’t touched my guitar in what felt like years. When I first got into music I was playing tiny bars and clubs, open mics, just me and a guitar. It’s how I fell in love with songwriter at 15 years old. So when these songs started pouring out of me mid lockdown it felt like a coming home. Coming back to myself. And it unlocked so much in me. I started writing about my childhood, things I hadn’t thought about in years. Some things that I’d forgotten about. The record is deeply personal, touching on my formative years. The events that really shaped me into the artist and human I am today. It’s an emotion and raw record that I’m so proud of. It’s the most vulnerable and authentic that I’ve probably ever been through my art. While I wrote and released the songs for me, to process and ultimately heal, it was so cathartic and moving to see how they affected other people. I received so many messages from friends and strangers telling me how the songs unlocked emotions and feelings inside of them that they hadn’t had access to before. Music is so powerful in that way. Success in this industry is such a strange concept that I’m still searching to find the meaning of. I think alchemizing our pain, turning it into something honest and perhaps beautiful, is success enough for me. Right now I’m living in that space.

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 am an artist, creative, songwriter, and dreamer. I am highly sensitive so moving through the world has always been a little challenging for me. When I was 15 my vocal coach convinced me to start guitar lessons. It was one of the best decisions I ever made, after learning just a few chords I wrote my first song, and I’ve never really stoped. Songwriting has been such a gift to me. It has helped me through so much and given me a way to alchemize everything life throws at me. Songwriting is my first and probably favorite medium but I also work as a visual creative director, I write poetry, I have a children’s book I’ll release at some point in my journey here on earth. I now try my best to move through the world gently, always learning, looking for the magic in everything. I’m very intuitive and try to make all my choices that way. I love music because it’s a language all of it’s own. It can communicate so much. I love songwriting because it feels like actual magic, when you’re doing it right. I think each of us comes onto this planet with our own unique magic and I hope mine comes across through my songs. I’m fascinated by astrology and all things spiritual. I think life is such a gift and I’m doing my best to be present for everything, the good and the bad. I love being alive and I’ll never take if for granted.

Any resources you can share with us that might be helpful to other creatives?

I wish I would have known how important a creative community is. I moved up to LA from Orange Country about 4 years ago and it’s been a complete game changer in so many ways. Having fellow creatives around me to inspire, pump me up, share resources with, and bounce ideas off has been everything. I think when you’re younger it can seem like everyone is competition but that just couldn’t be further from the truth. There’s enough for everyone and we’re all in it together.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

I feel like my whole life has been a story of resilience lol. But over the past 4 years I’ve done so much inner healing work, I’m now a completely difference person. I came into my early adulthood with so much wounding and while it’s not our fault what happens to us, it is our responsibility to do the work as adults to move through it. I had to really look at the trauma I had which was terrifying. It’s been one of the hardest and most rewarding things I’ve ever done and I genuinely love myself now, which I couldn’t have said 4 years ago. It’s much easier to stay the same, but life is so much better when we do the work to change for the better.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.ilovemoxi.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/anna_moon_music
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annamoonmusic1
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AnnaMoonMusic

Image Credits
Tracy Adams. Andy Toy.