Should I encourage my daughter to move to LA to pursue a music career?
Question by TinKerBel: Should I encourage my daughter to move to LA to pursue a music career?
My daughter wants to move to LA for her music. Do you think this is a good idea?
Here’s the details. She is 24, moved to Nashville 4 years ago to start her journey in the music business, started as a country artist, but actually developed into a pop/soul/r&b artist.
She has had management (he dropped her when she made it through all of the preliminary rounds on American Idol-that’s another story!), she has sang in clubs for 3 years, she writes her own music and has quite a few songs already recorded.
Anyway, she now wants to move to LA because Nashville doesn’t cater to her style. She has two girlfriends out there that want her to room with them. She has industry contacts in Nashville that said they would connect her with some writers and legitimate people out there. She also has a friend in LA that’s a freelance TV producer and he said as soon as she got out there he would do what he could to get her in front of some people. She is very talented, but there are alot of people that run to LA and get swallowed up and end up defeated and waiting tables for the rest of their life. On the other hand, I hate to rain on her parade, I’m supporting her decision but I’m the realist and she’s the dreamer, so we don’t always see eye to eye on this issue. She’s learned some hard lessons in Nashville, so I think she has matured enough to handle this.
Would really love some feedback from anyone with some first hand info and experience. Thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwevaIddJ…
Just a note, we are not fighting about this, I am standing behind her on this, and it’s not up to me, she’s 24, she can do whatever she wants, I would just like to hear from someone that has “been there done that” perhaps I can even give her some encouraging words from what I hear.
Best answer:
Answer by ALI MILZ
yes dude shes 24…shes on her own now and she may or may not make a mistakebut if she makes a mistake and you already didnt encourage her, that will make it harder on her …..you love her, right
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