CASSIDY PARIS ON HER BEGINNINGS

Well, my first instrument was actually

playing guitar. Um, and I think

obviously that came from um for people

that don't know um my dad is um and has

been a guitarist for a very long time.

Um, ever since I remember, you know,

like we had guitars like floating around

in our house and, um, I guess like, you

know, I was listening to rock music, um,

literally from the womb. [laughter]

Um, and I was, you know, born and bred

on rock and roll. And I guess like I

kind of reached out to my dad when I was

old enough. And I remember getting a

guitar for probably my like sixth or

seventh birthday. And funnily enough,

bit of a full circle moment. Um, I got

like a Fender Squire, I think it was.

And now I'm endorsed by Fender. So,

pretty pretty cool like full circle kind

of thing to happen. Um, so I started out

on guitar and then I think something

that my dad really kind of um, you know,

he definitely laid out the facts to me

pretty early on and he said, "Look, like

even if you're going to just do guitar,

like it's really um, you know, quite

good if you you learn how to sing, you

know, it's it's it's a very good um, you

know, quality to have as a musician."

And um, it's funny because I kind of I

fell in love with singing even more so.

when um I got singing lessons and the

rest is kind of history, I