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"In the Spotlight" with Robyn Bernstein

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Av Creative reader - 20 november 2025 08:45

There was a post on X (Twitter) that was recommending a song for us to check out..

So I did.

It was a wonderful soft piano melody with a wonderful female voice.

The song's name is "Julian" and the wonderful artist is Robyn Bernstein!

Thank you so much Robyn for taking the time to share your story with us today.

How did music find its way into your life?

- I have always loved music and was fortunate enough to grow up with a piano in my house.

Playing held a very specific role for me as a creative outlet, something that I quietly enjoyed and kept to myself.

So much emotional content could come out on the keys and I loved the way I could convey all of that sentiment through sound.

When I was younger, it didn't occur to me that this was a gift or an ability or a skill.

I am not classically trained and embarrassingly, can't even read music.

It's just always been a part of the way if feel and enjoy the world.

Your songs have a wonderful piano base, do you play more instruments or has piano always been where you feel like your music comes to life?

- As a young kid, I tried to learn the clarinet but had a very special awfulness to how I played, high pitched, off track.

My mom at the time was involved in a lot of volunteer work with one of the local symphonies and we had this incredible moment where Benny Goodman (a remarkable American Jazz clarinetist, known as "The King of Swing") came to our house for dinner.

My mom insisted I take out my clarinet and play some wretched beginner piece for him.

He was so generous and instead of laughing, told me to not give up and keep practicing. At the end of the evening, when I was supposed to be doing homework, I went over to my piano to play something for myself, which felt very different than the embarrassing request on the clarinet.

To have Benny Goodman look up and say something to the effect of "well, there you've got something!" it was an incredible push to keep playing the instrument I enjoyed, piano.

Now, as an adult, I do wish I'd continued with both instruments but I'm slowly learning that it's never too late.

The lyrics are as softly written as your music, where do you find your inspiration and what do you hope the audience take with them?

- I love lyrical the voicing of poetry, how you have to really condense language into the most essential and spare words in order to convey a story in a poem.

Most of my lyrics are written as poems that share a feeling and are loosely crafted to tell a story about that feeling.

My first four songs were very easy inspiration, as they were all written for my family - one song for each of my three sons and another song for my husband.

So energetically, the ideas and the source of these first few songs were all framed about something specific that I love about each of them.

I really want my music to move people to feel something, to connect not just to the sound on a sensory level but for them to find their own stories in how they interpret the lyrics.

Moving forward, my songs are about really universal subjects and less specifically about my family but the emotions of heartbreak or joy or pain or nostalgia, feelings that are so universal to us all.

My hope is that people find things to connect on when they listen to my music and that this is a positive force, a unifying force where creatively, we are all in agreement that no matter who we are, parts of the human experience are the same for all of us.

What are you currently working on and what are your hopes and plans for the future?

- I'm so excited about my current projects.

I'll be bringing out more of my love for jazz in some of my future releases.

One of the most gorgeous songs I think I've ever written, called Pendant La Nuit will be streaming on December 12th.

The song is a love story to Paris but it's also about a specific love story that began for a couple while walking the streets of Paris, so it's a story within a story and it would be a dream song for a film.

All of my songs "borrow" the gorgeous voices of professional singers.

I myself am not a singer but a Song Writer, a Lyricist and a Musician.

So I knew that for this song, I needed to discover someone with an extraordinary voice, who could convey the emotional depth of the song but who also felt approachable, a singer who listeners would gravitate toward so their ears would really reach for the storyline connected to the song.

I was in New York City, recently, at a jazz lounge and as soon as I heard Izze Stein singing,

I knew she was perfect for this piece which will kick off a different layer to the kind of music I create.

Up until now, my songs have been predominantly acoustic pop but this one will share another side of my songwriting.

I do have two other songs coming out before the December 12th one, as well so the next few weeks will be a very fun spin of new releases with Summer Love on November 21, followed by I Should Already Be Gone, Oh Sugar and Checked Out.

What is the one thing you would like your fans to know?

- That I am just immensely grateful to you for listening to and sharing my music.

I have received such incredible support and try my best to reach out to and respond to every individual who takes the time to share that support with me because having my music circulate and be enjoyed is a dream I have had for decades and it only is happening now thanks to fans, listeners and supporters.

So the gratitude for you is just tremendous.

I am not young. I am 55 years-old and only began releasing my music one month ago!

Until this year, I felt intimidated for decades about sharing songs and lyrics that expose a lot of vulnerability and really open me up to other people's opinions and feedback about my own feelings. But the thing that I know now, if I share my story and talk openly about my age and my earlier concerns, there is the chance my songs can inspire someone else to realize it truly is never too late!

All of us have secret dreams and I can not thank my listeners enough for helping me to finally follow mine.

What is the one thing you would like the music industry to know?

- There is so much brilliant talent out there and all of us artists are trying to be heard and shared so our music can circulate around in the world with people who will appreciate it.

Thank you to all the streaming sources that make that possible.

And that was my chat with the talented and inspiring Robyn Bernstein.

It is one thing connecting with artists on social media and sending out an interview, but now, going thru this interview and reading these answers again, I am just so happy and grateful that I get to connect with these amazing talented inspiring people and share them and their journey with you.

And YOU can find more from Robyn Bernstein here

https://www.instagram.com/robynbernsteinmusic

https://x.com/RBernsteinMusic

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6asMC8CRrvVgk8GYDQYFSJ

And you can find more from me here

https://linktr.ee/creativereader

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Take care hope to cya soon!

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