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" Whether it&amp;#039;s an upbeat dance track or a laid-back pop song, Daniela Brooker&amp;#039;s music has something for everyone. The singer-songwriter&amp;#039;s upcoming single &amp;quot;Summer Love&amp;quot; will keep you dancing all summer long! CosmoGirl sat down with Daniela to talk about her music inspiration, her songwriting process, and her advice on how to break into the music industry! CosmoGirl: How would you describe your style of music? Daniela Brooker: My music is for like all ages, all different types of people, male, female. What I&amp;#039;m aiming to create is an album that has pop songs for maybe a younger audience or like for clubgoers to be able to dance to. But I also want to have beautiful songs that I have amazing musicians play on. My music kind of incorporates all different styles so that it can appeal to everyone. CG: What inspires your music? What are some of your all-time favorite albums? DB: I don&amp;#039;t have specific albums and such, but I have artists I love, who are timeless. You know, Michael Jackson, Queen. I like big old school things like that. I love Aerosmith. But also modern stuff, like Beyonce&amp;#039;s albums I always think are flawless, No Doubt, Gwen Stefani&amp;#039;s band. So just loads of different styles. CG: Did you ever have a moment when you were younger when you knew you wanted to be a singer? DB: I&amp;#039;ve never experienced anything else. It&amp;#039;s kind of the only thing I ever wanted to do was music. I mean, I do acting and I dance as well, but nothing compares with music. When I was 12 or 13, I did a show, and I was the lead role in it, and I was singing loads of numbers. I think from then I knew singing was the thing for me. I think when you know it&amp;#039;s one of those things that you know for definite or not. It sounds so cheesy, but it&amp;#039;s true! CG: What is your songwriting process like? DB: It depends. Usually, if I&amp;#039;m writing like a ballad or a sweet love song, I&amp;#039;ll usually write it when something&amp;#039;s happened to me. It&amp;#039;s usually in that emotion. For example, if you&amp;#039;re going to write a heartbreak song and you&amp;#039;re going through something, you can&amp;#039;t wait because your feelings about it will change later. So I usually write about experiences that have happened to me. When I was younger, I used to make it all up because I didn&amp;#039;t have anything to write about. So I just used to make up things I thought were right. CG: Like what? DB: I once wrote this song called &amp;quot;Word Gets Around,&amp;quot; and it was this jazzy song about some guy that cheated on me at 13. If you look back at it, it was just so dramatic and over-the-top. It was just awful. CG: What&amp;#039;s your advice to readers trying to make it in the music business? DB: I think it&amp;#039;s just a case of practicing. A lot of people say they want to be singers, but don&amp;#039;t practice, like don&amp;#039;t get out there. At first, I never knew anyone in the music industry. I used to go online and find local shows that I used to enter and kind of sing cover songs. Just getting involved in anything and not thinking anything&amp;#039;s too lame to do. Then, you build up. Everything comes from something. CG: What&amp;#039;s been the biggest lesson you&amp;#039;ve learned so far? DB: I think it&amp;#039;s not to compare yourself to other artists. Sometimes you can get caught up in impersonating someone you love, and I think it&amp;#039;s good to sort of branch out or open up and experiment with different kinds of sounds and different looks that you want to go for and create the artist that you want to be. I used to be quite closed-minded, and I only wanted to do this and nothing else. As I&amp;#039;ve done more stuff, I&amp;#039;ve kind of learned to experiment a bit more. Get a free download of Daniela&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Summer Love&amp;quot; remix here! What do you think of Daniela? Do you think &amp;quot;Summer Love&amp;quot; will be the song of the summer? Sound off in the comments! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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