Gina Brooklyn, Normal Review
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At only seventeen award-winning singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Gina Brooklyn is turning heads and making fans at a rapid pace. Breaking onto the scene at just fifteen years old, Brooklyn co-wrote and recorded her song “From the Outside” with two multiplatinum country music songwriting legends, Mike Shimshack and Stephanie Lewis. The tune was quickly nominated in various categories for the 2016 Hollywood Songwriting Contest and the 2017 Global Music Awards; it went on to place as a finalist in the 2017 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Her self-titled debut EP was released in March of 2017 it includes her hit song “Faceless,” which won the Artist Revelation category at the American Tracks Music Awards in June 2017. “Beauty All Around,” which was nominated for “Best Pop Song” at the 2018 Round Glass Music Awards in New York City. 2018 saw the release of two wildly popular videos “Normal,” and “Warning” and now the premier of “Falling Away,” marks the arrival of Brooklyn’s second EP, Normal, destined to cement her songwriting cred.
Positives:
Brooklyn has a distinctive songwriting style. Her EP Normal offers six soul-stirring melodies that dig into the essence of creative lyrics with various musical settings and feels.
Bottom Line:
Brooklyn admits she is on a mission to inspire as many people as possible through the universal language of music. She fuses an emotional core with “Falling Away,” her exposed emotion of losing control and falling away, lined with an idiosyncratic vocal approach that often shows the vocalists fragility and fundamental core. Each track on Normal offers a different sound. What was refreshing is Brooklyn is certainly blazing her own trail, she sounds distinctly like herself, which is a welcomed breath of fresh air, giving light to believability in her lyrics and unique approach melodies and embellishing them. That’s the short of it!