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 [...]
I Keep Coming Back
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.
Get on, Get Out
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
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 [...]
Everybody Needs Somebody
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 [...]
“Loving You Still” by Maybe April
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 [...]
GRAMMY CAMP – NEW YORK 2011 AT THE CONVERSE RUBBER TRACKS STUDIO
As part of GRAMMY in the schools, Kristen performed at the Converse Rubber Tracks Studio for GRAMMY Camp New York 2011. The music in the background is from her new song, “Step, My Darlin.” Listen to it here! And to find out more about GRAMMY Camp, please visit grammyintheschools.com.
