17-year-old Katie Marie has always had the passion of music living and breathing deep inside her. In the summer of 2009, she decided it was time to enter a Desperate Endeavour and make her dreams a reality. Don't let her outer exterior fool you, this petite Fayetteville North Carolinian packs a mighty powerful voice. (They always said good things come in small packages.)
The dictionary definition of “Desperate Endeavour” roughly means a dangerously reckless attempt to achieve a goal. What exactly does Desperate Endeavour mean to you? How does it relate to your music career?
To me, a Desperate Endeavour is not necessarily a dangerous and reckless attempt to achieve something, but more so the journey that you find yourself on to get where you want to be.. And how willing you are to let that journey carry you where it needs to. I think a “Desperate” Endeavour is how far you are willing to push yourself, and how much you will do to reach your destination. As time goes on the more meaningful the name proves to be, especially in terms of the Endeavour I find myself on a daily basis, both with music and personal matters as well.
On your Myspace page, you emphasize the fact that you’re fairly new to music and did not start to consider pursuing your dreams until this past summer. Who or what influenced you to make that jump into pursuing what you loved? What were you doing before Desperate Endeavour?
That’s a good question! My whole life I’ve known I wanted to surround myself with music, whether it was performing or working in the business aspect of the industry, it was what I wanted to be doing. On October 2008, I went to my first concert. After that I fell even more in love with music and realized how much I NEEDED to be doing it. It wasn’t even a want any more. From there Myspace.com kind of took the wheel to be honest. (laugh out loud), I started getting more and more friend requests from all of these great unsigned artists that nobody had ever heard of. This made me realize how much undiscovered talent existed, and how much I wanted to help all of these musicians get where they needed to be. This was when I started Savage Promotions, which is a myspace account where I promote unsigned bands (found on my top friends). Over time I became close friends with more and more artists and bands who initially gave me hope that I could actually do what I wanted, to perform. I kept that dream inside of me until the summer of 2009, when I finally asked my mom if I could start taking guitar lessons. I was fortunate enough to be able to work with Baxter Clement, who immediately threw me into the industry and had me writing songs in less than a week and playing shows in two.
Your Myspace also says you played your first show two weeks into learning how to play the guitar. Many artists always talk about how nervous or excited they felt the first time they got on stage. How did you muster enough confidence in yourself to play a show so quickly and what went through your head/what feelings came into play as you performed for the first time?
Ohhhhh Gosh… (laugh out loud) I will never forget when Baxter told me I was going to be playing my first show. I had JUST started playing guitar and I was soooo new to everything, I was terrified! Haha.. I had never played for anyone, I always refused to sing for anybody and I had terrrrrrible stage fright prior to him telling me this. Luckily I had some pretty great friends who dragged me out to places like our local pool and parties with my guitar and made me sing for people there, to get used to playing for a crowd. Then the more I thought about it the more ridiculous being scared seemed to me, if my goal was to be playing music for people all over the world, then I’d have to just suck it up and have fun with it haha. Which I did, when I first got on stage I think I remember rapping into the microphone to start off my show? (laugh out loud).. I was there to have fun and to make sure other people did too, so walking up on stage was not nerve racking at all for me. After that first show, I could not have been more excited to jumpstart my career!
So you’re currently working on an upcoming EP. How’s that going? Have you picked out a name for it, how many songs do you expect to have on it, and do you have a release date in mind yet?
I know I’m gonna have around 7 or 8 songs on the EP.. But as far as the release date and the name of it go. That’ll just be a surprise to both of us!! Hahaha =)
Have you ever heard of the show Diva Duets? (If you haven’t it’s an annual show put on by VH1 to raise money for Save The Music that has considerably young up and coming female “divas” (this year it was Miley Cyrus, Kelly Clarkson, Adele, etc.) perform collaborations with bigger established artists such as Celine Dion, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder etc. If you were given the opportunity to be able to sing a collaboration with any big name artist who would it be and what song would you choose to sing with them?
This is such a good freakin’ question!! Haha, good job! Umm… I think if there was an epiphany and something happened wrong in the universe to where I was lucky enough to be given that change, my choice would be Ordinary People with John Legend.
What are your ultimate goals for the future of Desperate Endeavour?
I feel like any artist that you ask would give you the same answer: “to have my music heard.” And while that is definitely something I want to achieve, I think I want more than anything to give hope to all people that they can follow their dreams too, and that NOTHING can stop them if they want it bad enough. I want to be able to wake up every morning knowing I get to spend another day playing music. My ultimate goal is to become somebody people can look up to. I want to surprise my listeners, and gain new ones everyday. But more importantly, I guess I just want to be able to spend my life doing the one thing that has never failed me, music.
Any last words you’d like to leave the readers with?
HELP ME OUT!! I can’t do this without any of you reading this right now!! As an artist, I need listeners.. So please put my banner or songs on your page, tell your friends about me, listen to my songs, anything that you can think of helps! And I love you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for giving me this chance! :)
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