Artist:Alana Bruce

Trained in both classical and contemporary music, Alana began her musical exploration at a young age, learning the piano as a child and the guitar as a teenager. Exposed to a wide range of musical styles, including Classical, Jazz, Rock, Samba and Bossanova at high school, she graduated in the top 10 in the state for VCE solo performance piano. Delving further into composition, Alana broadened her musical vocabulary through her exploration of a diverse range of sounds and styles. This lead Alana to the fusion of Jazz and Blues with contemporary music as a means of expressing different moods and ideas. By incorporating some of Jazz’s more rhythmic and harmonic elements within a modern framework, Alana drew from the aspects of Jazz that she loved most; the beats, chords, voicings, style of melody and most importantly, the culture of improvisation. Incorporating colourful lyrics inspired by her interest in literature and poetry, and a major in philosophy and social theory, Alana ...