Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Laura Cheadle. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Laura, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Earning a full time living from one’s creative career can be incredibly difficult. Have you been able to do so and if so, can you share some of the key parts of your journey and any important advice or lessons that might help creatives who haven’t been able to yet?

I work every single day at my craft, I live and breathe music. My typical day consists of waking up, going over my travel schedule and proceeding from there. When I am not traveling, I am in the recording studio working on new music. I have mapped my life in a way where my creative efforts afford me my life. I do everything from live performance, to voiceovers, to tv appearances, to film and tv music. I love living this way and sharing my music to the world!

Laura, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

If you’re longing for some real music that you can feel in your heart, lyrics that speak to your soul, and a live performance with the power to blow the roof off the sky, you can stop right here. If you’re tired of all the staged choreography, blinding light shows, capes, costumes, lip-synching and auto-tunes that seems to have taken over live performances, you have found a place to rest, refresh, and renew. Welcome to the world of Laura Cheadle.

Along with her Family Band, she has opened for some of the biggest names in the business and won numerous awards, including “Best Indie Jazz/Blues Band” at WXPN sponsored Tri-State Indie Music Awards. She has performed on stages from NYC to London, appeared on 6ABC’s “Tuned In” as the very first viewer’s choice, the “NBC 10” Show, and the National reality show “Next Great Family Band.” Laura was recently featured in Curve Magazine, named one of “100 Women We Love” in Go Magazine, and declared a “Super Woman” in South Jersey Magazine for her active Charity Work.

As Traveler Guitar’s newest Brand Ambassador and a recent distribution deal with So Bold Ent/Sony Orchard of Sony Music, her solo career is starting to explode, performing a set at NAMM2022, filming specialized performance and educational video segments for Next Level Guitar’s site, and having recently been honored with the Musician of the Decade award for her body of work and trend-setting style. One of her original compositions was recently included in a popular TV show, and she participated in a Philadelphia Film project with a seamlessly acted feature role in the short film “Ether.”

Never one to measure herself according to the trends of the times or the female singer “flavor of the month,” Laura has carved out her own lane since she began performing as a child, and she has done it the old-fashioned way, on pure talent. Gifted with a voice powerful enough to shake rafters, and tender enough to navigate the entire range of the emotional scale, Laura Cheadle is a singer commanding more than just a listen or a look. Her albums, like her concerts, are an experience. Inseparable from the truth of the songs she writes, the raw emotion that tears out of her reaches deep into your heart with the kind of performance her audiences remember long after the last notes have been played.

Laura Cheadle has opened for/shared the stage with The Jonas Brothers, Sister Hazel, The Spin Doctors, Average White Band, Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals, Kasim Sultan, John Oates/Hall and Oates, Terrance Simien, Peter Tork of The MONKEES,Garland Jeffreys, Constantine Maroulis, Ryan Cabrera, Derek Forbes, The Stars From The Commitments, John Sebastian, Marc Broussard, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, and many more.

LauraCheadle.com

IG: @lauraCheadleMusic

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

Music has always been a constant for me, no matter where I am in life. When a wave of inspiration hits me, it feels like a beautiful gift from the universe. I love to share my original music with the world. It has surely become my favorite outlet. Not only that, but I live to perform. As I have grown over the years, I started making performing with positivity a mission. I love to inspire and spread joy. The world is not an easy place, but I love to sing with a mission: love, acceptance and joy.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

I love that my life is never the same. As a singer and musician, I am constantly meeting new people, performing at new places and nothing is exactly the same. I am an adventurous person and I love never knowing what is in store next. I also love when people tell me my music or performance meant something to them. I sing from the heart and love when my own experiences mesh with someone else and relate to their life. A perfect and recent example: I just released a brand new song, “Time Thief” with So Bold Entertainment/Sony Orchard that talked about someone stealing my time. The response has been unreal! I already have half a million streams on spotify and the music video (filmed by Life After Television) has been getting an incredible response! This troubling time of my life that I wrote about turned into something beautiful and life changing for me. You can watch the “Time Thief’ music video at youtube.com/lauracheadle

Contact Info:

• Website: lauracheadle.com
• Instagram: instagram.com/lauracheadlemusic
• Facebook: facebook.com/lauracheadle
• Twitter: twitter.com/lauracheadle
• Youtube: youtube.com/lauracheadle
• Other: reverbnation.com/lauracheadle

Image Credits
Photo by Robert Szatmari