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Valerie Rose Sterrett was bitten by the “performing bug” at a young age. By the age of five, she played the lead role and was the youngest performer in her school’s production of
Annie. But music and performance had already been in Sterrett’s bloodline for generations. Sterrett pulls inspiration from her family’s extensive performative roots while encompassing her own singer-songwriter flair, showing that she is a born-creative and an ever-evolving musician. Today, she exercises this history through her alternative-psychedelic music.
A source of inspiration for Sterrett was her great aunt
Isabel, a ragtime performer for local bars in the ‘30s, until she was hit on the head with a beer bottle after. “A jealous fight broke out with her husband and another man,” Sterrett says. This family history incident inspired an unheard song of Sterrett’s that she plans on releasing with a music video set in a vintage bar scene. The song is called “Miss
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