Hi everyone, super excited to be a part of this community and to find support as a songwriter and developing producer! I'm Abby, originally from Louisiana in the US, but I've been living between the Netherlands and Abu Dhabi, UAE for the past 10 years. I play piano, guitar, and percussion, as well as sing and rap. I love any kind of music, really, but especially anything with a groove and soulful vibes, such as R&B, hip hop, funk, soul, blues and classic rock. I've also been experimenting a bit with country, southern rock, and gospel more recently for a personal songwriting project that's returning to some of my cultural roots. I've been writing songs since I was a child and love going through life like it's one big musical number. I recently, however, came out of a long period of not writing music and being creatively blocked, and am so happy to be back on track and especially to find a community in this important moment for me as an artist returning to my form! I have 2 goals set for myself in the next year for songwriting: 1 is to release my first single as an artist, and 2 is to write, record, produce, and mix 1 track independently, start to finish, to become more confident as a producer. If I could co-write with any artist or co-writer, it would be a toss-up between Paul McCartney for a classic rock ballad, Stevie Wonder for something funky, and Lin-Manuel Miranda for a Disney Movie Musical for three very different musical universe loves of mine.