Swertia
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Welcome to my blog! I'm Odessa Lou Swan, known by my stage name Swertia.I'm a lyricist, singer, songwriter and visual artist amongst other things. My main goal is to have a community I can share my art with, I wanna stay niche!!!! I don't desire fame.Currently, I'm focusing on songwriting for future singles I plan on releasing for my EP <3.
More coming soon...
Swertia's story
a little bit about my background
I first got into music as a little kid. My grandma was a singer in the church, and my grandpa was a singer for a living. Since I was born into a family of artists, I grew up playing with my father's microphones. When I was 12, he taught me how to play the guitar, and on my 13th birthday, he gifted me my first ever electric guitar.Around the same time, I got very into alternative fashion, and my personal aesthetic started mattering a lot to me. When I turned 16, I wanted to show the world about my world. That's when first started sharing my art online, and I to this day do.
Swertia's music
my most profound art
I have gotten, to some extent, criticism about my music. I remain very quiet about it because I'm mostly scared of what others will think. I have released a few tracks on my Soundcloud, but I never comment about it to other people, which results in a low volume of listeners, but I don't mind.I'm focusing on the ambient genre currently, but I'm working on a few tracks inspired by bards in the medieval times.I had some drone music up on my soundcloud, but I took them down to remaster them. I don't know if I'll reupload them again.I just released Angel of Music, a very experimental and very simple song I made. I plan on keeping similar instrumentals on future songs, but they'll probably be more elaborate.
Inspirations
the people that reach my soul
My inspirations vary a lot. It's like they're everywhere. I look up to my grandpa for making his life an art.But besides that, my inspirations oscillate depending on what I'm fixated in the moment. Currently, I've been heavily inspired by Mars Argo, Nicole Dollanganger and Bambi Baker.
