Lia Ices
Lia Ices
Lia Ices is a singer-songwriter from Westport, Connecticut, currently living in Northern California. While she has been performing and recording for several years, Ices gained prominence when her song "Love is Won", from her second studio album Grown Unknown, was played over the closing credits of the second-to-last episode of season one of HBO's Girls on June 10, 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
CountryUnited States of America
art blend blur life lines privacy tendency
I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.
creates openness space whatever
Being in a space that's not a studio, it kind of creates an openness of 'We can do whatever we want here; we're not on the clock.'
california host parties reclusive super
I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.
piano
I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.
gave letting paying
I gave in to the idea of paying attention to what you like and letting it help you make better stuff.
led realized
I realized that there was much more to my voice than I'd ever been led to explore and that I could make my own songs.
keyboard
I think sitting behind a keyboard can be a security blanket.
definitely using
I'm definitely using different parts of myself, but I think when it comes down to words and melodies, I can't really force anything too much.
element emotive expressive vocal
In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be.
great takes work
Something I've learned is that it actually takes a lot of work to make something great.
might
The fact that I could sing in a way that might not be right for RADA but is right for me was a brand-new concept.
extreme letting
I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it's doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.
animal external figuring fun internal putting switching touring
Touring is a whole other animal for me and a whole other skill. But I'm having a lot of fun figuring all that out and switching it from internal to external and putting on a show.
artistry forcing opposed teacher technique trained
When I got back from London, I started with a new voice teacher in the experimental wing, who trained me to have my own artistry as opposed to forcing a technique upon me.