86: For a Musician with a True Voice, “Xanax” Is a Love Song

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Krysta Youngs is an artist with a true voice, whose career spans songwriter rounds in Nashville, Tennessee, and the gritty, inspiring streets of Los Angeles. Her creative collaborations include The Writing Camp’s David Quinones (“DQ”), Christina Aguilera, Cee-Lo, Rihanna and others. A graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. “Stay focused on what your goal is. I always say I don't like to have a back-up plan because I don't want to back up… I would say 90 percent of my opportunities and successes came from the honest, true and real relationships that I've built. They’re what life is all about.”

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0:00.0	Hello, world.
0:11.0	Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.
0:14.0	I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:16.4	Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered her talents to do work she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:26.8	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Krista Youngs.
0:30.8	Welcome, Krista.
0:31.9	Thank you.
0:33.3	Krista, are you using your talents doing work that you love?
0:35.9	I am.
0:36.8	We want to hear the whole story.
0:38.9	Krista Young's is an artist with a true voice.
0:42.1	The Berkeley graduate has sprinkled her talents across the country from humble beginnings
0:46.7	at songwriter rounds in Nashville, Tennessee to the gritty and inspiring streets of Los Angeles.
0:53.6	But it was her work with the writing camps
0:55.9	David Kinones that helped her to find a sound and develop a unique voice. The time spent in
1:02.3	Los Angeles has served her well, providing an opportunity to write with and for other
1:07.5	creatives like Christina Aguilera, Silo, and Rihanna, to name just a few. Her newest
1:13.0	single is Xanax, a love song. Krista, that's a real pithy summary of your career today. But talk to us now
1:20.3	about where you are and what you're excited about. Well, I'm in L.A. and I'm currently on my bed.
1:26.2	And right now I'm very excited to talk to you. I moved to
1:29.3	L.A. about three years ago, and I started writing for other artists and mainly focused on that.
1:36.7	And I met a lot of awesome producers, a lot of awesome co-writers, like you said, DQ. And so for the first couple of years I was here, I was just mainly focusing on writing for other people.
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