Meet Natalie Del Carmen Singer- Songwriter

We recently connected with Natalie Del Carmen Singer- Songwriter and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Natalie Del Carmen, we’re so appreciative of you taking the time to share your nuggets of wisdom with our community. One of the topics we think is most important for folks looking to level up their lives is building up their self-confidence and self-esteem. Can you share how you developed your confidence?

That’s a great question, I think finding confidence and assurance are two things that are honestly ongoing and shifting quite a bit, especially in my twenties. I’m sure we all go through phases about what makes us feel grounded, and I’m definitely a part of that. I find a lot of confidence in what I’m interested in that excites me, music I discover, creative hobbies I’ve developed, or loyal friendships that mean a lot to me. I must have done something right in that department to have those kinds of people in my corner. I count my blessings way more than I have in prior years and that’s brought me more courage than what I look like, or how I’m perceived online.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

I’m an Americana-country artist here in Los Angeles, CA, and grew up in the valley, perhaps the hottest sub-sector of LA around the peak of summertime in July/August. Even though I’ve happily grown up on the West Coast, I’ve got a strange pull to woeful country tunes and spend a lot of days dreaming of Nashville. It’s only in the past couple of years that I’ve really embraced this direction in music that I probably should’ve seen coming from miles away. The want to write about longing, regret, life, and love lends well to the genre (country), and I’ve spent years running away from it because country wasn’t super accessible in LA (or Boston in my college years), let alone from a native west coaster.

I think I’ve found a home making “accessible country music” that still rides as lyric-focussed singer-songwriter tunes with sweet tinges of fiddle. My newest single, “Good Morning From Magnolia,” is the closest I’ve gotten to releasing something that feels truly right, and like I’ve finally stopped running from the music I want to make.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Discovering that guitar would make me want to write more music was definitely a significant shift as an early teenager. I grew up playing piano and never felt like my writing landed when I tried on that instrument, and at the time I was heavy into The Lumineers and Gregory Alan Isakov. Teaching myself guitar to align more with those artists and expanding on that knowledge got me way closer to the kind of music I wanted to write that didn’t feel like really, really sad ballads. In college, I finally let myself into country music with John Hartford, The Avett Brothers, and Chris Stapleton for days on end, and that also steered me to where I wanted to go deep down. Getting really into the whole artist thing and learning how to market myself online has also been an ongoing rabbit hole. It’s a skill I’m still trying really hard to understand fully, but I think I’m getting there.

I think my advice for people on their own road of music is to follow your gut about what makes you sing (literally). I listened very privately to classic country tunes and mainstream pop country for a solid chunk of my life because I worried that wasn’t the kind of artist people wanted me for. If you love a certain type of sound, it’s because it’s a part of you, and if you stop running from it, it can finally embrace you whole.

What has been your biggest area of growth or improvement in the past 12 months?

Outside of the music part of all of this, I think I’ve grown to have a better relationship with social media and being an artist online. I think I took social media way too seriously for a while, and that might have been why my aversion to it was there. Creatively, I’ve gotten really passionate about graphic design, creating posters and finding ways to bring humor and liveliness to something that can feel so forced at times. I’ve grown a balance between finding ways to create engagement logistically, but also do it in a way that feels organic to me in the content I post. I actually love sharing parts of my life online, as long as it never feels calculated.

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