Rising Stars: Meet Meghan Pulles

Today we’d like to introduce you to Meghan Pulles.

Meghan, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I started off as a child always loving music. My father and his family would always play it around me even when I was little so I think it was only destiny that I become an original musician as well. I wrote my first song on the guitar when I was 17, and shared it on my Myspace Music page. At that time I wasn’t really taking it seriously and it became more of a cathartic release for me rather than ever thinking I could have a career that would actually impact others. After I graduated high school, I decided to go to school for Vocal Performance at Florida State University.

While I was there I learned some very good singing techniques, and also how to persevere through failures. I had my first failure when I failed my Sophomore year jury, but I got right back on the horse again, started studying with a new teacher, and ended up passing the following Winter with flying colors. After I graduated college, I knew I wanted to live in New York City (it had been a dream of mine since I was a little girl), and so I began the transition to moving here. After moving here, I began to realize that this opera dream of mine wasn’t ever mine. I never really had a passion for it, and I felt like I was living someone else’s dream for myself so I started to go to Broadway and Music Theatre auditions but even that felt like a hardship for me waking up early to go to auditions, and sometimes not even being seen.

I would spend nights alone in my room writing song after song after song, like I said it was my therapy. There was this one time I was in my apartment singing and writing, and I stepped outside in the hallway for a second and there was a man who asked me if it was me that was singing/playing, and I coyly said “Yes”, I was worried that he would think it was too loud or something but that man told me I was good and to keep going. It turns out he was a record label executive at Def Jam Records.

Other little things like that began to happen to me, I would play a song for a friend and they would have an emotional response to it or tell me that this was good and I should do this for real. It took me a while to finally listen and realize that I definitely had something unique to offer the music industry.

In 2017, I decided to play my first original songs out on a stage at the Singer-Songwriter Sessions at the legendary Bitter End in NYC. I remember how scared I was to get vulnerable about my songs and stories, but honestly once again it felt the most aligned with me and who I am as a person. I knew this was what my soul purpose was on this earth, and I knew how fulfilled I was creating.

In 2019, I began to record my first EP with a live band. That was an incredible experience, and getting to collaborate with these musicians who have played with Eric Clapton and Paul Simon was a dream. My first EP “Keep the light on” was released to the world in October 2019.

Over the past 4 years since I’ve decided to record and release my music, my career has just blossomed into something amazing. I have impacted a lot of people, and it’s truly amazing to see the light reflected back at me that I have been putting out into this world.

I can now say that I am a true singer-songwriter who has made a huge impact on this world and will continue to “pull” people into my music and my stories.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It has been hard at times. It took me a while to find my confidence in myself and to also realize that sharing the pain and struggles with others through songs can actually really be a cathartic and beautiful thing. I had to go through a lot of darkness to get to the light of it, but I was grateful for the journey and the things I learned along the way.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I am a singer-songwriter who writes music to help myself heal, be encouraged, inspire, and pull people in to do the same. I am known for writing very vulnerable lyrics and am very emotionally connected when I sing which is why I call my music emo-positive.

I am most proud of my music career which has really elevated since the pandemic of 2020. I think the thing that makes me the most unique is that I am a classically trained opera singer, and I have started to bring some of that into my music but especially in my album that is coming out next year.

What has been the most important lesson you’ve learned along your journey?
I think the most important lesson for me has been to keep going. It can feel so hard to keep writing, keep releasing, keep sharing, and keep showing up, but the thing is I know that my soul and purpose here are not fulfilled if I stop.

My songwriting is for me as much as it is for my fans, and I know that is one thing I will always have for myself as a way to cope with excess negative emotions. Sometimes I get scared that I will never write a song again, but it’s such a part of me that will never ever happen.

Pricing:

• Patreon Tiers
• $5
• $10
• $50

Contact Info:

• Website: meghanpulles.com
• Instagram: instagram.com/megpullesmusic
• Facebook: Facebook.com/megpulles
• Twitter: twitter.com/meghanpulles89
• Youtube: YouTube.com/meghanpulles

Image Credits
Jessica Safko