“So far, I’ve been played on internet radio stations and I’ve been featured in newspapers and stuff like that. I have been able travel up the coast of California touring. I’ve toured to Chicago and Austin, Texas doing South by Southwest. I love Austin, I only got to play one show there, but, I played a few open mike’s, the vibe is just so cool there.”
Her shows are usually in coffee houses, though, she says, “Sometimes I play a club when they’ll actually let me in through the doors, being under twenty-one, that’s kind of hard. I’ve also played restaurants and art galleries. We played at this one place called Brainwash Café, it was half Laundromat, half café. It was really weird.”
“My guitar teacher and I were in San Francisco, once, and they were pretty empty shows. No one paid attention, and everyone was on their laptop. A homeless man came in with a tree branch with a flower on it and put it on the amplifier for me as I was playing.”
She balances her life as a musician and a regular high school student in San Diego, California, by going to school during the week and playing shows on weekends, “It gets you a lot of attention in school, being known as kind of the rock star. It’s not too bad, I kinda like it.”
She’s also a self-proclaimed Internet junkie; “I usually spend most of my time on there, even though I shouldn’t. I’m also an artist! I like making things, cards and scrapbooks. And I just picked up my newest hobby which is cooking.” If she had her pick, she would have loved to duet with Jeff Buckley. “Not many people have heard of him, but the people who have are very lucky because he has the voice of an angel.”
Jordan says her songwriting usually comes from her real life experiences. “I have my personal muses that I look to,” she says, “Then sometimes it’s funny stories, like when I went to Catalina Island with my friends. The hotel was supposedly haunted and we came up with this big story about it and I wrote a song. “ Life on the road has brought about inspiration as well, “I was standing outside a coffee house after I finished playing and this guy came up to me with a cigarette telling me the devil was going to be in my strings that day- so I wrote a song about it.”
Jordan’s only sibling is her sister, who is nine years older than she, “Granted, we don’t get along all the time but I love her. I’ve written a song about her, too. It’s called ‘Secondhand Romance.’ It’s about a date she went on with this guy. He was really cute, so I decided to write about it. She really likes that one.”
Her sister, also had, a hand in her sister’s sparked interest in music, “She has a lot of friends in bands and that’s who she’d hang out with and she had one friend who always just kept going on with his dream and he’s starting to really go somewhere now. His band is ‘Of the Opera.’ I remember he had his guitar case at our house and would always play. That really got in to me at a young age. I was about five then.”
For now, Jordan continues her weekend tours and working on recording. In the future she would love to go out on the road, “possibly in Europe at a big amphitheater playing for thousands of people! My goal is to be able to make money doing this. To be able to do what I love and be able to do that with my life because I think that would make me very happy to do this forever.”
