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Singer-songwriter laika berdey’s first language is music.  “I think in melody - songwriting is often less of a ‘something from nothing’ process and more of an attempt to translate what already lives in my head.”  Always a singer, and originally a glockenspiel player, she picked up piano, guitar, percussion and flute in elementary school after she started writing songs, each new instrument a new way to create and translate those internal cadences.  But if melody is her home, lyrics are her playground -  “My very first songwriting was parody - changing the words to songs I already knew and wanted to expand, or writing my own lyrics when I couldn’t remember or understand the ones on the radio.  Sometimes I preferred my own to the real ones.  I’ve always had a lot of fun with words.”  

Don’t let this fool you into thinking that laika only, or even mostly, uses words for a good time.   “I tend to write about love and loss, people I miss, and things in the world I wish I could change but sometimes feel powerless to.  Sometimes these are feelings that can give you the sense you're utterly alone.  If there's others out there feeling the same, I want them to feel a kinship, a recognition - a comfort in the knowledge that others are going through the same thing.”  Using music to make space for emotions and people that the world more often pushes out,  laika creates a community for lost souls and lonely hearts.