Biography

Captivating audiences with her contagious confidence and electrifying personality on stage and off, Nashville singer/songwriter, Ashla Taylor is equal parts southern belle and honky-tonk angel. She embodies all the wonderful contradictions of the classic southern musical personality. While she was raised in the church singing in her father's Pentecostal choir in McCalla Alabama, she also had a grandmother who burned up the honky-tonk circuit in the 1970s. As a teenager she had to carefully hide her Beyoncé' and Katy Perry albums from disapproving parents. In time, she left the conservative restrictions of her upbringing to sing more free-spirited music, landing in Nashville full of wide-eyed ambition. "I literally breathe melody and rhythm". says Ashla. "I want to take people on a musical journey where my imagination connects in a powerful way with their reality." Since the top of the year, Ashla has been in the studio working on her debut EP “Truth Is…" She partnered with notable Nashville producers and writers Will Rambeaux and Sherrie Austin to craft a set of songs that she says are “a total reflection of who I am”. While Ashla started the process in Nashville, she looked for inspiration in Asbury Park, NJ where she connected with producer Steve Greenwell. There she explored an inspired style to add to the existing production of these tracks. Ashla’s “Truth Is….” with ingredients from Nashville and baked in Asbury Park NJ, is a truly unique set of energetic sounds.