Angelica Garcia
Los Angeles, CA
singer/songwriter
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Angelica Garcia appropriately likens her journey to "going down the rabbit hole." Upon graduating from Los Angeles School for the Arts, the 17-year-old native Angelenofound herself living in a 200-year-old gothic brick home encircled by magnolia trees andunder a blanket of bright stars in Accomac, Virginia. Her stepfather traded a career inthe music industry for Episcopalian priesthood, and an Eastern Shore church wouldserve as his (and the family's) first congregation. Behind that residence where UnionGeneral Henry Hayes Lockwood once passed through during the Civil War, Angelicabegan to fashion her musical world in the dusty old parish house. Nodding to herpersonal "holy trinity" of Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and Jack White, she tenaciouslypenned music."Living there helped define my sound," she declares. "It was really hard for me, becauseall of my friends were in Los Angeles. I didn't know anyone, and I felt very isolated. So, Iwent into that parish house alone. When you're sitting there by yourself, you don't haveto ask for permission. There's no one to judge you. You get to do everything you wantto. I had the chance to be free musically. A lot of it was my way to resurrect hope andfeel better. You write what you know because nobody knows what you know. That's thebest way to be honest."The singer and songwriter's vision embraced the environment as she recorded thesounds of crickets, drumming on a shoebox, creaking doors, and more to build a richsoundscape with just her piano, guitar, and MacBook. Those ideas would eventuallyevolve into the 12 songs comprising her 2016 full-length Warner Bros. Records debut,Medicine For Birds.In 2014, the label signed Angelica based off the strength of the parish house demos,and she embarked on her first national tour with Delta Rae. She'd take the initial ideasto a Nashville studio with producer Charlie Peacock [The Civil...