Tis the season of love! With Valentines day 2019 just behind us up and coming star Tiffany Woys is releasing her first EP titled all about the journey to finding true love. The album features 5 songs with her signature sweet and vibrant voice telling the story of how she came to find true love herself. According to Tiffany if you listen to the songs in order it should all make sense. She compared her view on love to one of her favorite shows, Sex and the City, and specifically Charlotte's character saying, "I'm a big hopeless romantic...Every time I've gotten my heart broken I've just gotten back up and believed that that person is out there.I just don't ever stop trying to find it. I don't get discouraged in that sense. These 4 songs kind of represent a little bit of a journey of the ups and downs to finding that."
California native Woys made a stop back in her home state this week for a special performance of her trending song Priceless at the Radio Disney studios. The talented singer invited me to an interview on Tuesday night where we talked about her new music, style, and more! Woys unique country pop sound is appealing to any country music lover but the pop influence makes it fun for all fans! The young singer moved to Nashville one year ago from California to pursue her country music career full time.
When I asked if her California roots influenced her music at all, she said, "Absolutely, I would not be honest if I didn't say that I'm country pop that's what I am. I mean my two biggest favorite artists are Micheal Jackson and Celine Dion how can they not have some kind of a pop influence. I wouldn't say that there's a lot of really typical traditional country. I'm definitely more on the modern side. But that's just kind of what I gravitated towards and before I was an artist I started as listener so for me I wanted to put out something that I felt like if I were the listener would I like it. And that's kind of the process of what I went through making my music."
Tiffany elaborated on what brought her to be a country music listener in the first place telling me, "The storytelling in the writing, the honesty and how I felt like the audience related so much more to country artists because it felt like they were hearing a story from their friend or their ex boyfriend or their mom you know it was like something where they could initially grab on to those lyrics and say yeah I know someone who's been through that or I've been through that and that right there was why I wanted to do country. And to take it a step further as much as I love to get dressed up and do fun things I kinda wanted to take a stage without doing 6 costume changes or dance routines. I just wanted to hold a microphone and sing and that's the show."
She said, "For country music what inspired me vocally and who I looked up to was Leann Rhymes and that was when I think I was about 5 and she was singing the national anthem and it wasn't too long after star search. It was like How do I live was coming out and that's kind of how I discovered country music which was through Leann Rhymes and then I just started to find other people because my parents weren't really big country listeners. It was like Rod Stewart, Micheal Bolton, Celine Dion it was those kinds of singers so I just ended up kind of veering off on my own and listening to like Martina McBRide, Faith Hill, and then I noticed that those were really like vocalists and stylists and that's what made me focus on the path that I'm going on right now where I'm focusing on being a vocalist."
On the subject of her childhood musical influences she talked about what artists inspired her most growing up and to this day saying, "The people who inspire me as an artist, my number one is Celine Dion always has been since I was 5. That's what my mom would play all the time was Celine Dion and that is not a bad artist to look up to. Really big shoes to fill if you're trying to fill that vocally."
Tiffany is a big believer in working hard to achieve your dreams and shared, "I found that listening to her and her being kind of my inspiration made me work harder and strive to always be better. Because I started studying what she does and how much she works to be as amazing as she is like still to this day she doesn't just settle and sit back and she practices 4 days a week still and does all this stuff so I'm like yeah that's what I look up to."
Speaking of hard work, Tiffany told me that this album has been 6 years in the making saying, "My mom would say I'm a very stubborn and impatient girl, but when it comes to music I'm not I'm really patient but I'm very excited just to get it heard." She is looking forward to sharing all her hard work with her fans and is hoping to get back to live performances now that her album is coming out.
She elaborated on her last 6 years in the music industry saying, "So kind of how I got into this entire journey is I love entertaining I love being on stage I love performing so I put a band together and toured the west coast and that was a ton of fun and then when I moved to Nashville it was obviously about making the music and the business."
We also talked about her style and what she hoped to say with her look. She described her personal style saying, "I'm a leather and denim girl whether that means a leather jacket with jeans or a denim dress with a leather jacket or leather pants and that's kind of my everyday go to that's kind of my look."
When I asked her if she preferred style over comfort she said, "I think I could be both but I would probably say style over comfort. Except when it comes to heels. I wanna be better at them. I watched Carry Underwood work a stage in them and I was like I would've died...I would love to wear some heels on stage every once in awhile because I'm not a cowgirl boots kind of girl that's not my style like I have them but I don't wear them in my day to day or on stage but yeah I'm all about style over comfort other than heels. I'll put on converse."
She shared her tips for dressing with confidence on stage or off saying, "Be yourself and that means even in your style. The same way that the song [Priceless] is about not settling that's how I feel about style. You know that's what that song is, just kind of like being true to yourself and if someone doesn't like it then keep it movin' and that's kind of how I feel about style. If someone doesn't like what you're wearing or how you dress don't settle. And that goes for a guy too. This song, I wouldn't just want it to be for girls I mean yes it's coming from a girls perspective but guys shouldn't settle either. Guys should feel the same way because you know I've seen a girl try and tell a guy how to dress before too."
Then she added laughing, "I mean sometimes there's good tips okay" Her songs and outfits definitely reveal her confident and bubbly personality.
Speaking of her songs, each one has a very powerful message and Tiffany hopes to use her music to empower young women and inspire her fans to follow their dreams.
She said, "To me its always about keep dreaming. People say get a 9-5 that's a one in a million chance and that's fine that's still respectable but this is my passion this is what I love..For me its just always follow your passion."
As for some of her future goals that she's still working towards Tiffany has a few things she's looking forward to. She said, "I want to be someone's first concert that they never forget. that was my childhood dream."
In 2019, she is really excited to start doing more performances. She said, "I'm just itching to get back up on stage so that's what I really wanna do in 2019 is perform."
Her inspiring commitment to her career is contagious and she offered some great words of motivation for anyone looking to pursue a career in the arts saying, "Don't let anyone ever tell you your dream is too big because crazier things have happened. Can you imagine telling the wright brothers that their dream was too big and they were never gonna get a hunk of metal in the sky and then we wouldn't be able to travel from state to state. So my thing is, is just dream big and always keep going for it. Chase it."
Tiffany has had experience with having to chase after her dream as her parents initially wanted her to pursue a career in law and throughout college she had to continue pursuing music part time before she finally switched to making it a full time career. Based on her experience she offered some words of wisdom to anyone looking to make the jump saying, "It's definitely not easy...its hard for both men and women to be an artist. I don't think anybody just walks through the door and its like well that was easy record dear where do I sign? I don't think its like that I think you have to really believe in yourself. And then a lot of the time there's gotta be some people out there that believe in you too. It takes a village sometimes and I don't think people necessarily realize that. I think its hard because you see so many people doing it on their own like I'm doing it on my own but I'm not really doing it on my own. I have a lot of people helping me that believe in me. But first and foremost you gotta believe in yourself because without that well, I don't know. You just have to believe in yourself."
Tiffany's album comes out on February 22nd. Check out her new music on Spotify and Apple Music!
