SIENNA SPIRO is quickly reaching new heights, almost weekly, thanks to a staggering voice and her emotionally shattering pen. The young songwriter has captured the attention of everyone who has heard the 20-year-old British artist, forcing her to quickly get over what she calls "terrible stage fright," en route to a sold out tour.
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The "Die On This Hill" singer recently joined us in Chicago, and talked with Audacy and B96's Karla about tapping into heartbreak and her journey to this new level of success during an Audacy Check In.
"I feel like everything is happening quick, that it's like hard to be present and enjoy it, but I'm so happy to be here and just, yeah, love everything," shares SPIRO.
It was only last year that SIENNA started properly playing shows, and now she has a sold out run in cities across North America. "I was a terrible performer, I was so shy, I would like sit there and like cover my face," she reveals. "I had terrible stage fright, but I think it's like, you know, you just keep doing it and I, I love it, even though I was so scared, I love doing it, and you just keep doing it and you learn how to trust yourself a little bit more and, I guess get used to it, but you know, I still get really nervous before shows."
SPIRO has quickly made a mark thanks to raw and vulnerable songwriting, and shares that although the pain sounds romantic in nature, it's so much more. "Even though a lot of my songs sound like they're love songs and like romantic songs, I think the biggest heartbreaks I've had are friendships," SIENNA admits. "You can experience heartbreak from family or friends or work or situations, or of course romantic love, but I think I'm just a very passionate person and I care a lot, and when I'm invested in something I'm really there and I'm just in it."
"I think that's why it causes me a lot of, I guess I get quite sad, you know, I lay it all out for people," she adds. "That's just the kind of person I am, and I think that that obviously means I get let down a lot. I just give a lot, if I love someone or if I'm there for someone, I'm there, and I'm just all in it, so I just have found myself getting let down a lot in my life because of how much I pour into it."
These days though SPIRO finds herself "in a really great place," finding inspiration and really just finding ways to figure it out. "There's a lot going on in life," she tells Karla. "I'm 20, I'm learning how to be a human, and I think, you know what's really funny is like, sometimes I'll do these things and people will be like, 'oh, what advice would you give to this person,' and I'm like, 'I'm figuring it out myself.'"
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