A singer-songwriter who grew up with old mountain ballads and got comfortable with her voice in Appalachian picking circles. She gets most of her inspiration from everyday people, “community champions” and the unsung everyday hero’s like single mothers and solemn farmers. Her early music really resembled her big family in the Blue Ridge Mountains and her immigrant father who always reminded her to look outside her world. From living and working in a bookstore to working on goat farms she’s traveled around before setting out west to work on ranches and has since settled on a farm and ranch in southern Colorado. 

"Music to me is community. It’s gathering around to tell a story, doesn’t mean you have to be good or important – just means that you’ve got a little something to say, maybe something to help you get by or maybe it’s to help your friend get by. Though, music has mostly helped me through all the big things in life that I needed help understanding; the guitar knew how to gently ask those things out. 

"Music and working outside seem to do the same thing for me, smooth out my mind and work its way through my hands. I feel so grateful to live on a farm and ranch everyday. The wild and the not so wild that are my neighbors wake me up every morning. And there’s something unmistakably honest about it all, pink skies, and early mornings, life that learns to walk before your eyes and the death that always reminds you that it’s all temporary and we're all just passing through. Makes me a me a very grateful witness." – Zara Alexandra