Born: 22 / 3 / 1984
Location: Australia
Tara Emily Simmons (22 March 1984 – 17 January 2019) was an Australian musician from Brisbane, Australia. Simmons was proficient in voice, keys and sometimes cello and was known for her use of bedroom, bathroom and kitchen items to sample extra sounds for her recordings.
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“I’ll miss her creativity and artistic single-mindedness forever."
'The seriousness is confronting and the reality devastating.'
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Really well thought-out, sophisticated synth pop that actually makes you feel something.
"This is the first album that I’ve actually been quite straight up about stuff... I think other songs I’ve written in the past, unless I’ve told someone a song was about them they wouldn’t have really known."
“I had to get back into a headspace at times that wasn’t really all that great,” she admits, “and tap into stuff that does feel a little unresolved or open-ended for me, and write from there.”