This is an excerpt from the Bea Miller feature of the January 2015 Issue of Beyond The Stage Magazine written by Gabi Talisman.
“When I was like 8, I was watching American Idol and it was an episode of American Idol Gives Back that they did towards the end of the season at the time. And I don’t remember who it was, but one of the singers who was a finalist went somewhere, I think she went to Africa? And she sang for a bunch of kids who were younger than I was at the time and whose parents who had died of all different sorts of types of diseases who were living in these shacks by themselves like the size of my kitchen table,” Bea Miller responded when we asked how she got into singing.
“I saw how much joy these kids that was brought to these kids’ faces when whoever it was started singing for them and the show donated money, and I pointed at the screen and I said, ‘Mom, I was to do that,’ and that’s what really started my journey.”
To Bea’s adoring fans this story is hardly surprising: making people happy seems to be a prime goal for the up-and-coming songstress. At just 15 years old, Miller has already appeared on “The X Factor,” growing a sizable following during and following the show and has released her first EP entitled “Young Blood.” With a #2 peak on the iTunes Pop Charts, over 2.6 Million views on the lead single’s music video, and more than 500,000 dedicated Twitter followers Bea Miller is going places.
We spoke with her during her time in Minneapolis, Minnesota, following her performance on the city’s Jingle Ball Tour stop and had many questions for her, beginning with how she comes up with her incredible lyrics. “I write a lot of poetry, I actually bring a little address book in my purse at all times – it’s really, really tiny. On each line I’ll write like one line, because it gives you like a small portion for each address, but I like to write a one sentence poem in there every day and so things like that.” This journal helps Bea formulate her lyrics. She explained, “a lot of the times I’ll turn like a real deep journal entry into poems and usually when I’m writing lyrics I pull them from my poetry.”
With such dedication to her music it is not hard to see that this girl is going places, but we wanted to know exactly who she wanted to work with when she got there. “Ed Sheeran. For sure Ed Sheeran. Ed Sheeran is my everything. I love him. I can like hear it in my heard, it would be real soft and simple like a lot of his music is and it would just be him on his guitar and the two of us just singing and uh, no backing track, no harmonies, no crazy high ho, just a really simple slow song all in one take would be really pretty,” Bea answered our question with no hesitation.
Read the rest of our feature with Bea Miller here.
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