From a young age, she was captivated by art and music; taking part in local musicals for children and playing the young Cosette of Les Miserables in the private stage of her bedroom. In late 2010, to get away from the stress of high school, Brynn decided to pick up her dad’s old guitar. With the aid of YouTube, she learned how to play the guitar and eventually taught herself to play piano. Although at the time she loved to write stories and essays, she never considered writing music.

It wasn’t until 2012, after the death of a loved one, that Brynn found her voice and rhythm as a songwriter. In the midst of sorrow, she found she needed a catalyst for understanding, a way to honor and mourn her dear friend. She locked herself in her bathroom and began to pick away at her guitar. Oddly, it was not a sad melody she composed but a joyful one, and her compulsion for songwriting was born. Throughout the rest of that year, Brynn continued to sneak into the bathroom, where no one could hear her, and write music.

During the following summer, Brynn played a cover of Brooke Fraser’s song “Flags” for Harvard Summer School’s student talent show. It was then, when she saw the receptive response to her gift from several hundred of her peers, that she realized that writing and playing music was central to her calling.

After Brynn recorded a few of her songs in Atlanta, a family friend sent them to Clif Magness, a music producer who has worked with Quincy Jones, Wilson Philips, Avril Lavigne, and Kelly Clarkson. Two weeks before heading off to college, Brynn was invited by Magness to spend a year in Portland, Oregon writing and recording with him. She decided to postpone her education to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Thus, the EP and soon to be released album “Notions of Love” started to take shape.

Brynn is attending Harvard College as a member of the class of 2018 and is concentrating in Philosophy and Literature. She hopes to use undergraduate culture as a platform for her music, and she will tour during summers and school breaks. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.