Written By: Elizabeth Chandler
Jazzie Young received her first guitar, her father's Taylor, at age 14. The hand-me-down survived a fire that demolished Young's family home. Ironically, the same guitar that escaped the fire managed to create a fire within her, sparking an interest in music and songwriting. Fast forward 10 years, she used the same guitar to write her debut album, “grown up and grown apart.”
Young's songwriting career began at 14, however it fully launched this year with the release of "grown up and grown apart," produced by Shawn Guess. In an interview with Nuance, Young refers to her album as her first introduction into herself: "I decided I wanted to put my feelings into a piece of art, because I'd never done that before."
The album moves between sounds- singer songwriter and indie pop, yet the theme of introspection remains the same, "I got reflective during the pandemic," Young stated in the interview, "I had time to process the past year or so. Relationships, myself, my growth... I was feeling things I hadn't had time to"
The emotional growth motor becomes even more obvious in the trilogy of videos Young released this summer, which she created with the intention of "helping people understand the sequence of events of her life she walks through lyrically.”