The best music always derives from honest yet precarious human experience. Shirena Parker is no stranger to adversity, but it’s her personal triumph over it that catalyzes her soul-exploration through sweet melodies and fresh lyrics that are sometimes conflicted, sometimes clear and confident — but always authentic.
Shirena’s new single Paint Your Night Black showcases the universally-recognizable doubt and insecurity that eventually emerge in any growing relationship, but with a refreshing twist of personal ownership and originality that only her smooth yet high-energy vocals can articulate.
Shirena was born to interpret the world through music, as affirmed at age 4 when her father asked her to state her name into the microphone for the large crowd before them, and instead she chose to sing a song. Every phase from there forward in Shirena’s life experience is crumb-trailed with piano lessons, songwriting and singing, as well as performing and recording music at a high level — as the expression of life through music has remained her undaunted passion.
In the coming months the public will be graced with more quality, artistic material from Shirena’s multi-ethnic life catalog – a rich and authentic repertoire borne out of wild, personal life experiences, some of which are common to us all and others most of us have only seen in movies.