Today we’d like to introduce you to Cynny Carlin.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I’m from San Francisco born and raised fifth generation San Franciscan. I went to a high school that was on the same campus as an art school and I met a lot of people that inspired me to do music and ultimately lead me to pursue it. I never really thought I could sing until high school and people started noticing that I had a good voice.
I started really singing and writing and discovering my sound in my 20s. I was living with my grandparents and I was just working going to school and hanging out with my them and once they would go to bed, I would go upstairs and sing and write songs in my nanas bathroom for hours. To this day those were some of the best times of my life. Really discovering I had a gift I really felt super blessed like the closest I had even felt to God. Discovering my music abilities really change my faith and outlook on life.
I put out my first single “Let Me Go” produced by Zack Pereyra aka LoHurtz in 2019. It did pretty well for my first song. It was placed on two Spotify playlists and got over 30,000 plays within a few months of its release. I felt super blessed and lucky. Then in 2021 so friends and I were working in a writers camp called “Rent Check” sessions. A bunch of Bay Area artists came together to make a soundtrack for one of our friends web series called “Rent Check.” And from there some of the same people that had connected at the “Rent Check” sessions ended up going to New York and had did shows out there. So from that point on we decided to identify ourselves as a collective called “Family Not A Group”.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Yeah, I mean I hadn’t had a stable living situation until this past year here, my fourth year in LA prior to that I had a lot of housing in security but was blessed enough to have good friends and be able to stay with them on different occasions. This past year has probably been the best for me. Things have started to turn around and pick up. I have a stable living situation, income and routine, and I’m getting healthier and better and better every day. But those times I felt really shameful. I was getting my beliefs mixed up with my anger and it was really keeping me down.
So far this year I’ve had a lot of really cool experiences. I was able to sing at a Grammy party. And did a pretty packed out show at the Independent SF with my collective Family Not A Group. And I have a lot of new music and visions on the way that I’m really excited to share.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I would say I’m most known for the tone of my voice and my melody choice. I feel like I specialize in creating a feeling, although my music is not super tailored and clean cut as far as typically song structure and stuff like that but the tone of my voice in the feeling that I put into it I feel like is my strongest attribute. Also the way I can switch up my voice. I feel like I have a lot of different sounds and styles in my play book. And that something I am really proud of and want to expand on. I would love to vocal produce.
What sort of changes are you expecting over the next 5-10 years?
To be honest, not too sure I mean I just think that right now we have so many artists doing so much good work and it’s accessible all the time everywhere. I just feel like we’re gonna continue to hear a lot of different Sounds from all over the world and it’s just gonna be more of that cause there’s more of us and Everything’s monopolized with social media so it’s really just in the hands of the artist to wanna be the one person team and do the TikTok and do the Instagram and do whatever just gonna be more of that cause there’s quite literally more of us but also maybe somehow The powers that be we will find a way to make it less monopolized who knows. I really don’t know that’s just my hypotheses.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/cynnymusic
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maddamcyn/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulUirBCOUVM&list=RDEMSR5vYWEF-YVK37LxGUSLwg&index=2
- Other: https://www.instagram.com/familynotagroup__/
