For Kellie Rose, her love for songwriting grew out of her passion for words. “I love writing them and rewriting them and thinking out loud,” Rose says. “Songwriting is how I articulate my thoughts and feelings, singing was my most natural ability and simplest source of joy, and performing has always been the avenue to serve it to others in the form of, wait for it, fun. Fun for me, fun for them.”
Rose says that her sound stems from her warm, soulful voice with an occasional rasp. “I’m a singer songwriter, yes, and like most of us, I pull from any and every genre and inspiration that comes to me,” she says. “My songs are introspective; typically built around an acoustic guitar which coincides with my on-stage performance. If you listen to my music or come to my show, the intention is you have an opportunity to laugh, dance and cry all in one go.”
Her latest release is the “same team” single, which has a doozy of a story attached to it (her words). “I was sitting with my partner in an argument and pulled out a piece of paper,” Rose says. “I made us write down our arguments, thoughts, feelings, needs so we had to articulate and physically see them. Eventually it came out that a need from my partner was for me to be a team player…oof, wasn’t wrong. I have been solo in my pursuits so much of my life so the idea of consciously being a team player has been a newer lesson. The next day I wrote ‘same team.’ It’s not from my perspective but my attempt at understanding. Building a relationship with someone so obsessed with their dreams is hard. It’s important to be on the same team.”
Rose says that she’s been learning how to produce her own music over the past few years. “DIY for me looks like continuing to build out my business as a songwriter and music artist, expanding to recruiting an awesome team of people whose goals and missions align with mine, and then creating opportunities to make dope art,” she says. “I write lyrics, melodies, I play guitar, I produce, I write vocal arrangements, I book enough live music performances and songwriting workshops to sustain a business for myself… I mean, yeah, if I could advise a fellow artist of anything, babe, do it ALL yourself. Learn and ask and take ownership.”
With new releases and shows planned for 2026, there’s a lot more to come from Kellie Rose.
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