At ROUND-UP, Castro will be debuting her single “Garden of Eve,” which features Elton John’s bass player Matt Bissonette and professional drummer Sergio Gonzalez from the TV reality show “The NEXT.”  Castro’s band consists of 6 GRAMMY Camp® alumni musicians from California, Arizona, and Michigan.  Her set will showcase a mixture of country, folk, indie [...]

Featured on VEVO’s You Play Like A Girl on www.vevo.com The song was written by Kristen Castro for her Simi Valley High School graduation 2012 and wasaccompanied by her friend, Isha Patel, on the mandolin.

  VEVO Web Series Features Upcoming Singer/Songwriter Kristen Castro   Los Angeles, CA – December 13, 2012 – Three-time GRAMMY Foundation’s®  GRAMMY Camp Alumna, Kristen Castro, is featured on VEVO’s new web series “You Play Like a Girl.”  The series, co-produced by VEVO and Mike Welch, combines the aspiration and inspiration of real-life young girls [...]

You Play Like A Girl

Get On, Get Out was written at GRAMMY Camp Nashville. “I don’t really remember the initial inspiration for this song, but I wanted to create a melody on the mandolin that was similar to Keith Urban. Country music is a big influence on me, and it’s not every day you write a song in Nashville, [...]

Count the Tides written by Kristen Castro. “I never really touch the piano when songwriting it’s usually just my guitar, but for some reason it just happened with this song. The lyrics came out of nowhere and I liked the sound of what my hands were playing. I just started mumbling words and poetry came [...]

This is the finale for GRAMMY Camp Nashville 2012. “I had attended GRAMMY Camp for three years and it was really neat to go out with a bang. I never expected to love songwriting the way I do but it just happened. The talent on this stage was phenomenal that night and it was really [...]

Video made by: Tiffany Lo, GRAMMY Foundation. My third and last year at GRAMMY Camp. I loved every second of it and the music education gained from there in a matter of seven days was priceless. I opened up, so to speak. I finally got the confidence to be a singer/ songwriter, voice myself and [...]

Loving You Still written by Maybe April, a trio formed by Kristen Castro, Katy Bishop, and Alaina Stacey. The three met and wrote the song while at GRAMMY Camp Nashville this week.  “We were just three girls who happened to form a group at Nashville and this song poured out of us. We each had [...]