Drawing influences from female powerhouses like Julia Michaels, Lorde, and Ariana Grande, rising pop artist OSTON is well on her way to making a name for herself. Her electro-pop hybrid is sure to make you feel good and dance around your room. OSTON’s newest single “Shrug” has already been streamed over 86,000 times on Spotify alone since its release at the end of April. The song has also gotten the attention of Radio Disney, and has been played over 100 times since being put into the radio station’s rotation a few weeks ago. We had the opportunity to chat with OSTON about her influences, writing “Shrug,” and being a guest performer on NBC’s “Songland”.

Music has been an essential part of my life since a very young age. Although neither of my parents are musicians, I grew up in a household that was always spinning something from The Beatles to Santana to the B52s on the record player. My brother and I would always put on little plays and shows for friends and family, and I would make up gibberish songs and recite them to anyone who would listen. So, when I was a little five-year-old kid, my mom helped set me up with singing lessons, and I could just tell that’s what I was supposed to do forever. I went off to college in Chicago to study music and marketing, met my amazing studio family that took me under their wing, and now I’m in LA doing this thing full time! Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.