Fifteen-year-old Juniper Shelley has been singing for as long as she (or anyone) can remember. She grew up in a deeply musical home, absorbing the sounds around her and basking in the eclectic tastes of her dad, seasoned singer-songwriter and longtime WFMU DJ Michael Shelley. The duo will perform a sweet father-daughter piece for ShowUP!
The 12 new songs that comprise her debut album, Juniper, reflect the young artist's expansive musical sensibility, while also embodying the interests of a normal teenaged girl in 2020.
The material ranges from lavish widescreen pop extravaganzas to understated live-in-the–studio performances, echoing the spirit of vintage pop as well as Juniper's wholly contemporary musical sensibility.
Throughout the album, she flavors her effortlessly accessible songs with inventive touches of vintage keyboards, electric sitar, Latin percussion, harp and vibraphone. "I guess that my musical taste is a mashup of my family's music and my friends' music," she says. "I really like the Beach Boys, the Zombies and Fountains of Wayne, but I also love Taylor Swift."