A couple of weeks ago we asked fans to submit their own questions to newcomer Megan Leigh. Below is her response to the best 11 questions submitted! Read on to see if your question was answered and find out what the newcomer has to say!
KJ Asks: When are we going to hear more new music?
Megan Leigh: Roughstock has, for now, only premiered one of my 3 songs. The other two you can go ahead and find them on my personal website www.meganleighofficial.com, and if you like/love what you hear, you can even go to Itunes and buy them for .99 cents by typing in Megan Leigh. On even more new music then those, I am currently writing new songs but waiting for the help of my new band members to include their ideas. As soon as we have completed at least 9 more songs we are going to try and get into a studio, I am hoping they can all be ready and out in about 4-6 months. So definitely keep a look out through my websites and slowly but surely you will hear news about the songs!
Kathy Asks: Megan, do you have anyone in your personal life that inspires you to sing or is in your corner no matter what?
Megan: I definitely have people in my personal life that inspire me to sing/ and are most certainly in my corner no matter what and that is my parents. My father, stepmother, and mother have all been there for me at all times in a different parts of my life. My father and stepmother are some amazing hard workers and have succeeded so well in life and it only makes me want to work harder on my music. They have also been there every step in this music adventure of mine that it even more, it inspires me to keep going and see through to the end what I can succeed. Especially seeing my dad work so hard on helping me out with my music career, it shows how much he truly cares and believe in me, which only comes to me wanting to be even better in all realms of my career in the music industry.
Linda asks: Who are some of the artists who have inspired you and your career?
Megan: There are so many artists that inspire me. I can’t really even go to just one because I listen to so many versatile genres that all music and all artists inspire me to do so much with every step in my music career. If I really had to just go to one/two in at least the country genre, it would have to be some recent artists that have popped up within the past two to three years and that is Lady Antebellum and The Band Perry. To see these bands accomplish what they had to do to get where they are and in the time frame they have keeps me going cause its exactly what I’m doing now. There was a story on Lady Antebellum where just a couple of months before really hitting the top, they had been playing at bar where there were only 3 people in the entire place, and they said that part really was not the best thing ever but it was a practice set for them and I have to say that has definitely happened to me a couple of times already. Each of these bands also are able to hit several genres with their music and I am also wanting my music to do the same, considering I just don’t want to be on the country stations, I want to hit the alternative, soft rock, pop stations as well, and that’s exactly what they have done.
Rick asks: Do you know who Merle Haggard is?
Megan: I definitely know who Merle Haggard is! He is such a fantastic classic country artist, in fact my favorite song by him is “Mama Tried”. There is just something about that song I absolutely love. He voice is so soothing!
Justin asks: What are your hopes for your single “Drown?”
Megan: My hopes for my single “Drown” are just to really get it on the radio, for people to hear it and love it! I don’t think that is to much to ask! I love all my songs on my EP I recently let out but “Drown” certainly carries me, and shows my potential for the most part. I really want it to be the song that I am pretty much reminded of when people hear my name. I know it’s a sad song, but it’s haunting yet still beautiful and so many people can relate to it.
Justin Asks: Do you have a band yet and if so, where will you be touring?
Megan: My band is for the most part are together, though because they have just all been put in place, we are still getting prepared with songs before we go out for shows. The first couple of months shows will be in areas close by a.k.a Kansas towns, Topeka, Lawrence, Kansas City and Missouri areas. If we are asked to come somewhere in a different state then we will definitely go out there. Though I believe it won’t be for awhile before we start touring but we hopefully will be within the next 6-8 months. Touring spots I can’t really say, it’s just a matter of who wants to take us, where good country bars, country city’s, and theaters are. You can most certainly keep tract of everything through my websites, www.meganleighofficial.com, and then heading off to my facebook from there
Bubba asks: Do you write your own music?
Megan: I have written my own music and am still in the process. Though I will put out there that I have never been the best at any type of writing subject so it is hard for me, but with what I do have so far, I do personally think others will enjoy.
Nameless asks: What made you want to be in a career where your life can be in full public display?
Megan: I am the type of person who has always been very very social and loves to stand out, but not in a bad way. Taking on the music industry, I knew I would be taking on hard public display where your life is always being torn up or shown and never secret. Though for me I am a true person to my friends to other people and even to others I don’t know sometimes, and I’m not afraid to be like that if I get to being in the pubic display.
Nameless asks: What inspires you to keep going when things may get tough?
Megan: It’s always hard to be inspired when things get tough. Though I have been through a lot in my life as a younger child and I always ended up fine. My thing is that keeps me going is that there is always something that has to be better on the other side. If not that there are other things that inspire me to keep going and that’s just usually either music, or friends and family around me that I talk to. And sometimes its not even that, sometimes I end up just talking to a random person when I’m in a tough situation and without even telling them anything, they always end of saying something that shows me you can do it, or they tell me a story of how they might of gotten through something tough, and it’s just if other people end up getting out of tough situations you can too, but you have to want to get out of it.
Just Another fan asks: what inspired you to write and/or record “Drown?”
Megan: While working with the writers in composing this song “Drown” the song “Jar of Hearts” by Christina Perri had just come out. Which is a song that talks about this guy who plays you to get a sensational feeling for himself, and you know that he is going to hurt you but you have this uncontrollable urge to still be with him, and he does in the end break your heart, steals it and leaves. So when writing the ballad, I thought about that song and how I once was hurt too, and how this boy had told me all these things, about how I was beautiful and the best, etc, etc, and kept and kept doing it, then out of no where completely leaves me at that time when I was expecting the most and needing him the most. With this song, after we were done writing it, I knew it was exactly how I felt, how it explained the situation perfectly and knew so many people were going to be able to relate to it as well, so it was a must record.
Bonus Roughstock Question: If you had to describe country music in one word, what would it be?
Megan. Love. Because everything in country is about how you love so deeply about someone and sometimes yes just something. It can be all around fun love, true love, love that was broken, or love that was lost. But with all this it’s simple yet deep, understanding, and great to listen to and so relate-able.
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