Creation Entertainment's
SALUTE TO TWILIGHT

SEATTLE, WA

REGGIE GINN

The poet John Keats once wrote about the miracle of melancholia, the idea that only by experiencing sorrow can a person know true joy.

That idea - the "fertility of pain" - is what makes the music of Sacramento area recording artist REGGIE GINN so impactful. Her songs are woven a defiant hopefulness, the sound of a life without fear or despair, where her listeners can look their pain in the eyes with the knowledge that healing and happiness are around the corner.

"It is amazing to be able to give a listener a song that makes them not feel alone, or that helps word their dilemma in a way that they never could. I suppose in a way I am an interpreter for those lost in an unexplainable struggle," REGGIE says of her role as a songwriter. "I am proud of my work in that it can comfort those who are aching."

Overtop sparse, plaintively gorgeous piano melodies, GINN explores themes of love, loss, heartache and, ultimately, joy. Her songs are confessional and drenched in conviction, like those of early influences SILVERCHAIR, OURS, STINA NORDENSTAM and COUNTING CROWS.
Steering the whole ship is REGGIE'S dynamic, evocative voice, which soars and swoons in tandem with GINN'S unbridled emotions. She can be as bombastic as EVANESCENCE 'S Amy Lee, as haunting as PORTISHEAD'S Beth Gibbons and as crystalline as IMOGEN HEAP - sometimes all within the same song.

"It is all about making the listener feel what you're singing," REGGIE says of her emotive music. "My music is a therapy for me to get out the feelings and emotions that plague my mind. It does hit people very close to home much of the time."
That connection is eerily similar to the visceral relationship REGGIE'S family member GREG GINN established with fans as the singer/guitarist/primary songwriter of seminal punk band BLACK FLAG. Music, it would seem, runs in the family.

GINN has been singing since essentially the day she was born. By high school, she was singing in the All State Honor Choir and performing around the world, from the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris to the Saint Mark's Cathedral in Venice. But it wasn't until her junior year of high school that she felt the undeniable tug to share her own music with others, to make a personal connection.

There was the roadblock, however, that she didn't know how to play any instrument. She couldn't very well perform all of her shows a cappella. To that end: one eBay auction later, her first keyboard was en route to her house. Over the following months, GINN taught herself how to play piano, along the way working her poetry into her musical meanderings to form what would be her first complete original songs. At the end of her senior year of high school, she made her public debut to great acclaim from her peers.

Five years later, GINN has made her mark at world-famous venues like The Viper Room and The Derby and has done in-studio interviews and performances at radio stations like L.A.'s revered Indie 103.1.
REGGIE is currently at work on her much-anticipated next batch of songs, a series that finds her not only experimenting with alternate instrumentation, but exploring new lyrical themes as well - all the more for her listeners to connect with.

"It is definitely not an easy ride," GINN says of the process. "My songs are my soul."

As Marvin Gaye once said, "Great artists suffer for the people." But even if it means REGGIE has to mine her personal life for more bits of what she calls "discontentment personified," it will never be in vain. In the end, the miracle of melancholia always wins.

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