Tamar Kaprelian Driving Through In "California"

Tamar Kaprelian recently dropped the music video for her latest single, “California,” the the lead single and title track off her new five-track debut EP, a sun-soaked song shot through with summery wistfulness, and sparkles with an independent artist feel, released in June, two years after her successful debut album, "Sinner Or A Saint," which is real and true to her, both personally and artistically. The new clip follows Kaprelian through the classic journey out of the desert and into sacred California.
The piano prodigy with the soft siren voice has been in the music scene since her song “New Day” was featured on MTV's "The Hills." Kaprelian says she's taken much inspiration from Billy Joel and Paul McCartney and aims for "thought-provoking, hopeful, playful, and honest songs." The 25-year-old independent artist is now at Columbia University studying political science and creative writing.
"California" is a breezy tune with Kaprelian driving around parts of California and walking in the desert in flats but making sure she rocks the high heels in the bedroom. Kaprelian explained: "It's about trying to lure someone to move somewhere for you because you're in love with them, and what better place to live than a place that's always beautiful, always sunny and always puts you in a great mood." The song adds that personality that only a smaller label can allow, and gave Kaprelian the opportunity to shine creatively and the result is a combination of well written, catchy and fun pop songs.
In the brand-new video, Kaprelian takes a quintessential top-down drive in a vintage convertible, strolls through an abandoned field with wind in her hair, and cools off with an afternoon dip in the type of pool that could only exist in California, all while trying to convince a dude to join her out West. Some more adorable dresses and an unexpected, but impressive harmonica solo break later, the clip comes to a close with the sun setting on Kaprelian, who's still en route to California, sans companion. It's a picture-perfect postcard of the Golden State, which she recently left to study at Columbia University in New York.

Tamar Kaprelian "Should Have Known Better"

Tamar Kaprelian has released another video from her sessions at Jack Johnson's Solar Powered Plastic Plant in Los Angeles, CA. This time, the 23-year-old singer/songwriter performs "Should Have Known Better" off of her stunningly beautiful debut studio album "Sinner or a Saint," came out August. The track is darker in their approach, bringing string sections into the mix. Kaprelian veers darker in "Should Have Known Better," which is definitely about someone who did me wrong and led me in the wrong direction," Kaprelian explains. "Had I not gone through that experience, I wouldn't have written the record that I wrote."
Kaprelian was born in Scottsdale, Arizona and brought up in both Georgia and California by Armenian parents, surrounded by love and great music. Tender at First Blush, but With a Tough and Feisty Core. Kaprelian was discovered in the modern way: winning a cover contest on YouTube, piggybacked onto someone else's success. The song was "Apologize," by OneRepublic, one of the more vaporous pop hits in recent memory. Her version, a delicate little slice of piano soul, cuts through some of the original's haze, its wounded tenderness purposeful, not accidental.
The ten songs on Kaprelian's debut album are full of dashed hopes, fierce renewal, and proud vulnerability. It's a coming-of-age record that chronicles her life, relationships, and her utter determination to create an album that is real and true to Kaprelian, both personally and artistically. Mainly, her album reflects the conundrum facing young female singer-songwriters in the age of Lady Gaga: barring the embrace of the extreme, there appear to be a decreasing number of options for success. "Should Have Known Better" is an unexpected and not wholly unpleasant hybrid of Billy Joel and Demi Lovato. That Kaprelian can pull off most of these styles well demonstrates her flexibility, if not her maturity. At 23 she's still young, though, and also a little feistier than her songs. She was definitely the only one wearing leopard-print heels at this club, which favors acoustic, earthy singers.
It's a winning, if sometimes naive, record, full of songs that sound frail at first, thanks largely to Kaprelian's genteel voice, but are in fact sturdy and alluring: the stuff of shampoo commercials, dramas on ABC Family and the Lilith Fair revival. Growing up, Kaprelian gravitated toward the rock classics her musician father schooled her in. Listeners new to Kaprelian will find that there's a little vocal similarity to Paramore's Hayley Williams at times, along with hints of a possible Ben Folds influence here and there. In a world of pop music dominated by girls trying too hard to come off as sleazy and edgy, it's refreshing to hear a pop album that sounds genuine.

Tamar Kaprelian Premiered Video For "New Day"

Tamar Kaprelian has just premiered the official music video for her first single "New Day," will appear on her debut album, "Sinner Or A Saint," she has culminated a library of original music, which grows daily in the melodic journey that will bring her project to fruition, due out July 13 on Interscope Records. She calls the album a coming-of-age record that chronicles her life, relationships, and her utter determination to create an album that is real and true to herself, both personally and artistically. In video, the rising star take her piano through beautiful fields and forests in the ultimate fairytale setting.
Kaprelian has started writing songs from her early childhood, and wrote on her MySpace page that she has been influenced by classic Disney films as a child, but her true love for music came out after discovering Billy Joel and Paul McCartney. The 22-years-old recently has buzzed the music world with her latest released song "New Day." She has been writing since she was just fourteen years old and hopes to send a profoundly positive message with "New Day." She says, it's "about struggling, persevering, and being in a situation where you don't know how you’re gonna dig yourself out of it. And at the end of it, life is like a road—you don't stop in the middle of it. I really want people to listen to this record and get a sense of hope from it."
Kaprelian's big break came after winning the OneRepublic "Apologize" Cover Contest in March 2008, and and soon landed herself a contract with band's label. No doubt she have been brought up in a very peaceful environment, as her song lyrics are really different and classic. Kaprelian wrote her songs mainly over piano, and her songs are hopeful, honest, light and attractive. She describes her music as "thought provoking, hopeful, playful, and honest." Her unique style of piano driven pop-rock has surfaced as a distinctively inventive sound unfamiliar to today's typical model. Fans of MTV's 'The Hills' might recognize Kaprelian's single "New Day" which was featured prominently in the Season Five finale. Get to know this rising star in an intimate, acoustic performance of the song where she shares a little more about her music.