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Love Letters

Who doesn't love getting a love letter?

Especially from the one you love!

I love watching romantic movies and getting swept away by ink covered pages of timeless love stories.  Something about these stories touch the deepest desire of our hearts.  We want to be sought after...  We want to be beautiful in the eyes of another.  We want to be seen and understood as the unique individual we are.  We want to be loved.

When I started on this journey of writing Hello Sweetheart I really thought and prayed deeply about the message I was called to bring as an artist.  I knew that the best art gives to others and I wanted to give to those who were lonely, down, and seeking some ray of sunshine in this cloudy world.

It's easy as a writer to get pulled into making things too complicated...  But I started to think if my mission was to bring sunshine and hope to people through my art I needed to make it simple.  When we are down our minds are already full of worries and anxious thoughts...  It's amazing when hearing a child laugh, or getting a hug from a friend, or seeing a smile from a passerby can flip around your entire day!  And the mountain of problems you feel like you had suddenly seem so small.  I based my project around reminding people of the little things in their lives that are beautiful...  Because the little things have a way of gently lifting up a broken heart to make a big difference.

As I started this project in February of this year I was suddenly hit with one of the hardest seasons in my life.  I felt depressed, defeated, and struggled with anxiety every day because of a difficult situation that came into my life.  Even so, each day I challenged myself to write a happy song, and the only way I knew it met the need of this project is if it got me out of my "slump" for the day.  I remember writing Mountain Man in my car after a long day of feeling down and the songwriting continued as I got home from work and started cooking dinner...  Before I knew it I was dancing around my house singing, "Oh you will be my mountain man!" :)

What if "stop and smell the roses" is more than just a oversaid phrase?  What if these little things around us are meant to be love letters to us from someone who loves us very much?  What if this person knew the difficult times we'd be going through but they specifically put love letters all around us to remind us we're loved... To remind us to keep going.  To remind us there is a reason to smile.  To remind us that we're beautifully unique and understood.

What if we were somehow missing these letters that were scattered all around us?

I know these letters exists and this project helped me see how they are all around us from a God who cherishes us and loves us deeply!  And when you're in love you want to CELEBRATE!  You want to laugh!  You want to dance!  You want to create!  Why?...

Because you, my friend, are deeply, deeply loved.

Open your letters. <3

Love,
Katie Ro

Dear Romantics!

HELLO SWEETHEART IS HERE!!! :)

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Hi my sweet Romantics!

I hope my letter finds you very happy on this lovely Tuesday morning! 

I am so happy to present you with my EP, "Hello Sweetheart"! 

I am SO excited to share my new music with you! I have been working very hard on my EP "Hello Sweetheart" produced/co-written by Jesse Michael Howard, which is officially released TODAY! God has brought so many people into my life through the recording process to help provide some amazing opportunities for me and my music!

I would love your help, sharing my music with your friends and family, by watching, commenting and rating it as well! Every action you can complete will be a great help to me and everyone that poured their hearts into this music with me! :)

You can hear my new EP "Hello Sweetheart" by clicking HERE!

Please rate and comment on my EP, you will see where to do so once you click the link!

You can watch my new music video for my single "Hello Sweetheart" by clicking HERE!

Please "like" the video & comment below the video, you'll see how when you click the link!

Also! Be sure to watch my music video promo by clicking HERE!

Please join me on twitter & facebook to see all my posts concerning music, videos, shows, and more! I will be playing this weekend at West Nashville Farmer's Market at 10am, stop by and see me! 

I am so grateful for you all and blessed to have you supporting me and my music. I hope you enjoy "Hello Sweetheart"! 

Please share Hello Sweetheart with your family and friends as well, so it can reach as many people as possible! 

Thank you all so much!

Love, Katie Ro xoxo  

HELLO SWEETHEART IS HERE!!! :)

HELLO SWEETHEART IS HERE!!! :)

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE ON iTUNES!

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR THE TITLE TRACK!

RAINBOWS!!! :)

6 years married to my Sweetheart!

Honestly, I wrote this EP for and about my husband Collin.  He's the sprinkles to my sundae.  The chocolate chip to my cookie.  The rainbow mane to my unicorn.  Ok, you get it!  ;-)  He's my best buddy.  Every now and then I sing to Collin when he has a headache or to just ease his nerves.  I'm glad he likes me singing to him or else that would be SUPER annoying, right?!  The songs I always sing to Collin are from my favorite 1940's-50's musicals.

In the summertime my family would visit my mom's side of family in Texas.  Hot Texas sun and humidity, 1970's swimming pool, fresh baked bread with honey from Granny's bread machine, Tang (who can forget Tang!?), fire ants all over the place and all day/night play with my brother and cousins...  It was the best!  My favorite part was sitting in my Granny's sewing room with my cousins and watching old musicals like Nancy Goes to Rio, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, My Fair Lady, Calamity Jane and so on.  The music capivated me like nothing else and the songs were written on my heart the moment I first heard them.

Since I was 16 I have been trying to figure out who I am as an artist.  Being a songwriter and session vocalist I've done opera, gospel, moody indie music, pop, folk, r&b, country, and pratically everything inbetween.  To be honest my main focus was getting someone to notice me...  All in hopes for someone to discover me and sweep me off my feet with a record deal.

Who be hatin' on this delicious
magical beverage?!

Five years ago I went on American Idol and stood before Simon, Paula, Randy and Kara.  Out of twelve thousand people I supposedly made it down to the top forty in the audition city.  I sang my song and then was ripped a part and literally made fun of for what seemed like an eternity.  They kept saying I was "too cutesy"and compared me to Minnie Mouse, Doris Day and eggnog...  Yes, eggnog.  (I don't know about you but I like all those things!!!)  Random, but even though I made it through without balling on national television (they didn't even air my audition), like venom I allowed the opinions and hurtful comments to slowly paralyze me with fear and regret where I stopped singing and writing all together.

I felt so defeated.  A music school dropout, working in a cubicle, not singing, not creating...  I was miserable.  Collin was there for me and wouldn't let me give up but I was a pathetic mess of a 24/7 pity party.

Jane Powell in Nancy Goes to Rio
My favorite movie and actress/singer!

One day this past year when Collin had asked me to sing to him I had an idea pop into my head...  I decided I wanted to write an album to ease his mind (maybe one day our kids') and to remind him of the simple, happy things in life that we all tend to forget about.  As I started to dig into this idea, I realized that the best way to do this was through singing in the same style I've always loved like the great Doris Day and my favorite, Jane Powell.  I wondered if it was too dorky or risky...

But then as I started to think more about it I realized that this was the music that would never leave me, the music I've been singing since I first listened to it in my Granny's sewing room, the personality that I was made fun of for at some television competition...  This was really who I've always been...  I've just been too afraid to show it to everyone else and accept it.  I was never meant to be a Christina Aguilera wannabe, or some edgy indie artist...  I was created to be the musical, rainbow, glittery, funny, tiny bit dorky (or sometimes REALLY dorky!), positive, encouraging, old-fashioned romantic, unique, Katie.

And my message was to be this:

SPREAD JOY TO OTHERS.

Like I say in my bio, I wrote all these songs when I was sad so I knew that if the song could make me smile that it was a perfect fit for Hello Sweetheart and the purpose behind it.

I prayed to God about this idea and I was so afraid of how I was going to make it work.  Who would want to help me?  I knew I couldn't pull this off alone.  Then all the sudden person after person said "Yes," they would help.  I couldn't believe it!  I kept thinking, "REALLY?!"

My producer/co-writer Jesse Michael Howard being one of them who has always believed in me from the start.  Without him and my other co-writer Aidan Rowe this EP wouldn't exist.  And honestly I believe God did it that way on purpose.  I really believe our gifts are incomplete and are meant to be fused together with other people's specific gifts and talents to create something beautiful and impactful.

Then along came my friend and manager Heather Hagwell who has been pushing me to keep going, work hard, not take short-cuts and to tackle my fears to pursue this vision of spreading joy.  Incredible musicians like Kris Wilkinson, Nate Fleming, and Eryn Jones added their own sparkle to this music which makes me smile every time I hear their strings, vibes and harp.

This idea came out of pain, fear and anxiety...
Much like a DOUBLE rainbow from a rainstorm!  (WHOA DOUBLE RAINBOW!!!)

But I had to stop being the victim.  I had to dust myself off, dry my tears, and start helping others do the same. :)

I hope this makes you smile, dance, laugh and reminds you of the beauty and blessings that surround you!

It started with an idea... What's yours?  What's your rainbow?  :-)

A Sneak Peek at "Hello Sweetheart!"

I am SO excited!!!  

Months and months on an amazing, joyful, beautiful, 

journey has brought me, my producer Jesse Michael Howard

and my creative collaborators here!

I am so grateful to so many of which none of this would be possible!

This music truly and genuinely comes straight from my heart to yours.

This is more than some musical release to me...

After years of feeling defeated as an artist I have found a reason to sing again.

This time it's different.

This is meant to do something.

It's meant to bring joy to the lonely, the forgotten and the broken.

It's meant to bring to life and honor the 

old fashioned music and musicals I grew up watching.

This is meant to evoke memories in you that you've forgotten.

This is meant to make you smile.

This is meant to make you dance.

This is meant to help you see your many blessings that surround you.

This is meant to set your heart at ease and take it up! up! and away!

Hello Sweetheart...  It's been a while. :)

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