Kari Lynch|Country Music Artist

It was a privilege to do a promotional photo session for Kari Lynch (Kari Lynch Music) a couple of months back.  I asked her to share a little about herself for “The Spotlight” so sit back, grab a cup of your fave beverage and get to know Kari a little better…

About Kari Lynch:

Earthtones asks: Now…I know you sing country music (fantastically) but I’m interested to know as much as you’d like to share about your goals, target markets, and any info you think you might want your audience to know.

Kari Lynch responds: I have been singing since I was a little girl. It sounds corny but, I have absolutely always known that this is what I am suppose to be doing. I wrote my first song when I was in second grade, and I just kept writing.

Music has always been a part of my life. I used to sing with my dad and my gramps when I was a little girl. My grandma introduced me to Patsy Cline when I was six, and I heard Garth Brooks, “No Fences” album for the first time when I was seven. I was hooked.

When I was little, it started as poetry. I had to write to deal with stuff that was hard when I was growing up. It was the only thing that was natural. I begged my mom for a journal that I could write my poetry in. It was just simple stuff like, “Roses are red…” haha. But it eventually developed into music.

I have always written to figure out my life. It’s the only way I know how to figure it out. I hear everything in song, and my head always has some beat rolling through it. It’s hard to explain, but every situation is a song to me. Every action is a lyric. There is not a minute that my head doesn’t have some new melody or idea floating in it.

So that’s a little bit about my past. As far as where I am right now. Performing, touring, writing, just playing music is absolutely what I will do with the rest of my life. There is no question about it. I have to do this. It’s the only thing. I can’t possibly imagine spending my life doing anything else.

My “target market” is a hard question. Obviously, I write songs that are about my life. But, I have a lot of younger fans that identify with certain things as well. Ultimately, I write about my life. I write about relationships. And I write about the things I might never know (like I said, I write to figure things outSo, I guess my target audience is anyone who can listen and identify. I have people tell me that my song helped them get through something, or that they felt like they could relate, or that they felt like finally someone said or understood what they have been trying to say. That is the best thing anyone could tell me. There is no greater feeling than when someone tells you that something you created affected them a certain way. That absolutely means everything to me.

I love the fans! I still feel weird calling them fans though. I feel like they are my friends. They get me and I get them. They are giving me a chance to live out this dream, that slowly turns in to reality more and more each day. I seriously can not explain how much LOVE I have for the people that support us and the music that myself and my bandmates make. I feel like a broken record, but I can not say THANK YOU enough to those people. They write me the nicest messages saying that I inspire them or how a song affected them. I don’t think they realize how much they inspire and affect me.

We have a long way to go, but it gets closer every day, and every day there is a new song to write or a new person to meet, a new bridge to cross, and a new battle to figure out. Honestly, this is the hard part. When you are funding all the music stuff yourself, still paying regular bills, still working a day job, and deciding between buying food or studio time (studio time always wins)But we have an awesome support system, awesome fans, and awesome people, like you, to work with. They say it’s all about networking, and that is true to a point, but I have made so many friends along the way and we’ve been able to help each other out. That “over-night success” thing might be the easiest way to go. But, I feel like the people we have met along the way, and all this hard work makes us appreciate all of our accomplishments more. It is a 24 hour a day job, but every time we play a show I realize even more how totally worth it this all is.

I am Kari Lynch. I am a songwriter/singer. I love my family, my bandmates, and our fans (friends) more than anything. And, I am forever in LOVE with music, writing, and creating music. It is everything. It is my life and it will always be the first love of my life. I am blessed with the most amazing bandmates. They are my best friends and my family. I am thankful every single day for the opportunity to do what I love. I can not say thank you enough to anyone that has helped/is helping along the way.

“The Dudes” and I LOVE rocking a show. We love country music and country music fans! We have a different sound that we are very proud of. It’s something that sets us apart.

I want nothing more in this life than to be able to tour, perform, write, and make music for the rest of my life. “The Dudes” and I are in love with what we do, and we are in it until the end. We all share the same passion and that passion is making it in the music industry. We will do it, because this is what we were made to do, and we love it more than anything else. We know it’s hard, we know their are trying times, and we know that there are a lot of people that want the same thing as us. But, when you are in love with something, you give it everything and you never stop. This is our life and I can’t wait until the day that we can do this full time, play a huge stadium show, or heck, even walk amongst the greats at the CMT Awards.We will do it. ♥

Let’s Do THIS!
♥ Kari Lynch