This week on Thinkin’ and Drinkin’ Bart talks with singer and songwriter, Tina Parol! Tina started writing songs at the young age of 11 and got her first publishing deal at 16. In her first year of college at NYU she received a record deal with Motown! Tina now works with sync, short for synchronization, which is making records to be put into shows or movies.
Meet Tina Parol: Bold, dynamic, fierce, powerful, fun. These are the words used to describe Tina Parol’s new sound. You could say that Parol’s music career was destined from birth - her parents named her “Tina” after the iconic Tina Turner and she shares her namesakes tenacity. Born in New York to Polish immigrants, Tina was constantly immersed in culture and still has family that lives all over the world from France to Poland to The Netherlands to Canada and the USA. Growing up on everything from pop music to rock, hip hop, and soul, she gained a strong music education in her youth which gave her all the ammo she needed to pave her path in the musical landscape. During her freshman year at NYU's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music, Tina signed a record deal with Universal Motown and released her single “Who’s Got Your Money?", which went on to become a Billboard pop top 40 hit. After touring the country twice over, Tina decided to take time off from the road, and really hone in on her songwriting which led her to settle down in the songwriting capital of the world: Nashville, Tennessee. She has written songs with and for pop legends like Britney Spears, Celine Dion, iconic country band Lady A (#1 country radio hit “Champagne Night”), Jessie James Decker, Sabrina Carpenter, as well as up-and-coming country starlet Tenille Townes (“Jersey on the Wall (I’m Just Asking)”, for which Tina won the 2020 CCMA Songwriter of the Year award alongside co-writers Gordie Sampson and Tenille). In addition to her work for other artists, Parol’s songs have been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, Lifetime, Fox, Fox Sports, Disney Channel, in Disney global theme parks, in Touchstone Pictures films, and beyond. Tina is ready to step back into the spotlight, and start a new era and sound in her career. Combining her love of pop melodies with intense beats and inspiring, powerful lyrics with her dynamic vocals, Tina is ready to show the world what she is truly capable of. Buckle up, Tina Parol is just getting started.
What Bart has to say: Tina was so much fun. The kind of writing she does with sync is a completely different side and way of writing than what I am used to. I don’t know much about sync, and she explained it so well that now she’s definitely made a career of being a sync writer which is very encouraging.
In this episode, you’ll hear
Tina’s first band was called Tina Parole & the Convicts, which she added the ‘e’ to her last name so it would make more sense for the convicts.
(at 34 mins in) Tina’s first concert was Tina Turner, who she was named after.
(5 mins in) She got her first record deal with Motown when she was 19.
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