(Seguin) – Get ready to hit play and listen as Seguin’s next big star comes to life with her new hit music single “Figure It Out.”
It has been a year and half since Ellery Twitero, a.k.a. Elle Brightly, has been traveling on this road toward stardom. Tonight, Brightly’s newest single drops on all music download and streaming platforms.
Her mother Angela Twitero says at the start of it all, her daughter had no previous experience just the passion to pursue a career in music. It was then that her daughter relied on that passion to successfully get through a series of online and in-studio auditions to land herself a spot with an all youth music group being coordinated by a talent company in England.
Elle Brightly, a.k.a. Ellery Twitero, center, in the Los Angeles studio with her music producer Alex Cantrall and Disney Channel Star Kylie Cantrall. Kylie took time to visit the studio to watch Elle as she recorded her latest single. Courtesy photo
Twitero says despite auditioning and being selected for this English company, the family chose to turn down the opportunity. She says the family, led by Brightly, just could not commit to the six months that was required to live in England.
However, her mother says it’s what happened afterward that has really driven her daughter’s music career. She says after that first experience, Brightly went on to release her first single “You Got Me.” She says that single plus its music video was no doubt the springboard to everything that has happened since.
“The beauty of all of that was, that first song and video got her a lot of attention. The Voice, the producers from The Voice called and wanted her to come audition for The Voice. They let her skip the prelim audition stuff and brought her straight in the studio in Los Angeles. She auditioned and the judges took time with her and ended up telling her that 13 was just too young at that point they felt and so they wanted her to possibly come back if that was something she wanted to do but getting something like that straight out of the gate was really amazing and then this producer that she is working with now. His name is Alex Cantrall and he does the music producing for Disney and Nickelodeon and a lot of those shows but his daughter is Kylie Cantrall and she’s one of the new Disney stars and Alex brought her in to kind of do this test single and see how it goes. I think that he’s hoping that he is going to be able to launch this song into some type of placement in television or movie or TV series but also that it will gain her attention for management so that’s kind of where we are now,” said Twitero.
Twitero says this latest venture has been even more exciting for her daughter and looks forward to tonight’s release party.
“That’s kind of where we are now. She was in L.A. She wrote the song and she is not a songwriter. She’s never done that before but she writes a lot of words and versus down and so when she went into work with Alex and they were talking about what the song would be and they were asking what kids her age like to do and that sort of thing and then she said ‘we’ll I came in with some lyrics to a song’ and they said ‘let’s hear it!’ She gave them the lyrics and they said ‘that’s our song.’ It took her about three and a half days in studio (for the song) and then for the music video, we couldn’t do what we planned because of COVID so we had to use direction from a distance. She stands in front of the green screen and that is how this new video has been done and actually, I’ve only seen bits and parts of it. It’s really going to be something unique in the way that it is done. So, I’m so excited,” said Twitero.
As for Elle, the 13-year-old Marion Middle School student couldn’t be any happier. She says her single was simply inspired by all the components of being a teenager.
“At my age, it is difficult for kids to communicate how they feel especially if you like someone. We all just wish they could ‘Figure It Out.’ The song concept is about wishing they could figure it out without it having to be said. In the lyrics, it says things like ‘I’m after your attention but I’m staring at the floor.’ It’s about how hard it is at our age,” said Brightly. “I brought in that kind of concept and they really liked it and we spun it with a few little lyrics in it and it just blossomed into this song and the creative process was really interesting to be there to see.”
Despite the message to her peers, Brightly says it’s been created to be a dance song and upbeat. As far as helping produce the song, Brightly says making the music hers is always the most challenging part of the job.
“It’s been challenging because I feel like when I have a song, I just want it to be so good. I have a certain level that I want it to be at. It’s challenging because it’s hard to meet your standards, where you want it to be, but I’ve done things so far and I’m just really happy of where I am right now because my dream is coming true,” said Brightly.
The single is being released today on all music streaming and download services.
The launch party for the virtual video will begin at 6 p.m. Visit the Elle Brightly Facebook page for more details. The music video will later become available this evening on YouTube.com.