"Michelle Lynn Looks Deep Inside for Her Third Album"by Anna Soldner
anna.soldner@secondsupper.com
It doesn’t take more than a few minutes of listening to Michelle Lynn’s unique, soulful voice blended with her acoustic strumming to realize that this young woman has talent, a type of unexpected, pure proficiency cultivated without the benefit of lifelong voice lessons or musical theory training.
Lynn, 23, has just released her third album, but despite achieving steady success, she is just starting to become comfortable with life as a full-time musician.
Growing up on a century farm in Northeast Iowa, Lynn was more interested in writing and journalism than music. “If someone when I was 15 would have told me that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter, it wasn’t on my mind at all,” she says with a laugh. At the age of 17, just after graduating from high school, Lynn instinctively picked up the guitar and after the first week was completely enamored. She found the musical process extremely healing. “The guitar just struck me, and I really, really enjoyed it," she says. "So for about a year I hammered it and just started writing, and ever since then I’ve felt so much better expressing myself. I had a really hard time expressing myself growing up. ... So when I found it, I finally felt at home.”
She knew she had found her life passion. “I just had this feeling...
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