She wanted as many tools in her toolkit to write with. Raine got a guitar around 13 and from then she continued to study both piano and the six-string. So, as soon as the girl group started to fall apart, I told my parents that I wanted to get songwriting lessons.” “Through those songwriting sessions, I learned that I had a passion for the studio, of being part of that process. “I was the one who absolutely loved it,” Raine says. The members were in a camp for songwriting and, she says, some of the girls liked the work, others didn’t really. Later, as L2M was at the end of the line and the girl group was recording its final record, Raine found her passion in earnest. If anything, she doesn’t want to have any regrets later in life for lack of trying. “I went from not being on the lineup to the lead-off hitter in two years.”įor Raine, like softball, being a performer is about teamwork but it’s also about shining your own light as well as you can, as brightly as possible. ”I know that I might not have as much talent, but I also knew that if I outworked people, maybe I’d get a good spot in the batters’ lineup.” And it worked. “Through playing softball I learned to try to outwork people, “Raine says. But these were lessons she’d already begun to understand through athletics.
She learned the arduousness and the payoff of putting in the time.
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For the group, she spent days on end learning how to harmonize, how to record vocals (and to do so quickly). At 10 years old, she auditioned for a girl group, L2M. She’s been through many of the rigors of an artist already, well before she’s legally allowed to drink alcohol. Indeed, Raine will stand for nothing less than precision.
“Practice doesn’t make perfect,” Raine says, citing the advice of one of her teachers. They support her array of interests, providing wind for the sails of an already driven artist. Thankfully for Raine, her parents are as driven as she is. Her voice has always outpunched her stature (Raine says she was 50 pounds at 10 years old, a “tiny little thing”) and it has been the impetus, along with her skill at composition, for so much investment. She’s taken vocal lessons, songwriting lessons, stage presence lessons. Raine, who was born and raised in Westlake, Texas, has wasted no time when it comes to practice and improvement in her chosen craft. You can share that with the whole world and let them know that those people who are going through the same thing aren’t alone.” You can share that with people, which is so special. Doing what I love, it really does help me heal if I’m in a bad spot in my life, in a bad season. “Music,” Raine tells American Songwriter, “is my way of coping. Viral charts and went gangbusters on TikTok. And her latest release, “ See You Later (Ten Years),” continues to portend a bright future for her after it recently hit No. Now, nearly 10 years later, Raine has worked with some of the world’s biggest names and earned millions of song streams on the very platform she used to obsess over. She began taking vocal lessons at nine-this on top of the YouTube karaoke videos she’d sing along to at home, developing her chops. It was then when her mother asked, “What’s your talent? ”īut by playing piano and singing in the competition, Raine showcased the beginning of her future. When she was eight years old, for example, something innately told Raine to enter a talent show. While no one in Raine’s immediate family had any particular talent for music, she says, it’s something she always knew she wanted to dive into. Raine played softball from about four years old to about 13 and despite being more accomplished at that than anything else, she gave it up to pursue her passion for songwriting. Despite regularly being the shortest, smallest, and youngest kid on the team, she often shined on the diamond. Growing up, Jenna Raine played centerfield, the position that sees everything.
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