Trials with Dreams of Music

"Sometimes, it takes me to look in the mirror to be reminded of why I am doing this. I want EVERYONE to know that if they shoot high enough, they can reach the stars!"

Athena, a vocalist and guitarist offers us a glimpse into the talent that emanates throughout her powerful performance. She's been compared to Grace Slick and Pink owing to her seductress vocal quality, melodic tones and a rage-full rebellion when the music calls. She can capture you, tell you a story and leave you feeling beguiled to the journey you just experienced.

A transplant from Arizona at the age of 2, Athena established herself as a Nevadan in the Carson City area until the age of 25. Aspiring to sing since the age of 9, she enrolled in voice lessons and watched her mother, awestruck, play the acoustic guitar. On Athena's 20th birthday, her mother handed her the very instrument that that the young girl admired for hours on end, the Cort acoustic guitar. This is where Athena captured the power of music and inspired her creativity that she now owns as a singer and songwriter.

At the age of 22 she fumbled through some local classifieds and found an audition for a band called "Wicker Box" who after hearing her welcomed her in to where she performed for 2 years honing her skills well enough to perform with Credence Clear Water Revival in a Cure for Cancer fundraising event. Though as conflicts, trials and vulnerabilities arose, she spread her wings and gave it all up. Moving through the struggles in her down time from music, Athena focused on her health and work.

Through continuous counts of dismissing the impulse to play she found herself holding conversations with the lead guitarist from a different band that later acquisitioned her as the lead singer in Sonic Anomaly. This is where music had once again resurrected her life.


Everything started to fall into place, through her deliberation of staying clean she had become a sobriety sponsor for addiction, she found another band and located to one of the most sought after tourist spots in the country, Lake Tahoe, California, where she pursued a career in the service industry and developed a relationship with Sonic Anomaly. Through the help and support of her fellow sober artists she discovered her own voice, lyrically. She decided that there was allot more to say and the best way to say it was on her own. Realizing this she changed her venue, her sound, her songs and her style.

"The Maiden's Faire" Project. The project was inspired by her love of music and her devotion to the growth of women's success in the business world and in the arts. The Maiden's Faire was a music event sponsored by local artists and businesses in and around the Lake Tahoe basin presented to offer support and awareness to local women's services. You may see more of this project in the future, so keep your eyes and ears open.

Presently, Athena is joyfully doing her thing, ultimately by singing and writing, performing and broadening her audience from LA to the east coast, recruiting band members along the way. Catch her when she's live 'cause "She's here to play the music for ALL to hear!"

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