ReachOUT.tv - Rose Falcon To see Billy Falcon's page Page, Click Here Watch On-Line Streaming Video on RealPlayer- Click Here-- Broadband or Dialup   The last time Gary Scarano saw Rose Falcon,
she was 4 years old! Rose is like every other
young woman and yet, she's not like anyone
you've ever met. Like many adolescents, Rose
grew up feeling like an outsider. When she
discovered her gift for music, she realized
the thoughts and feelings that set her apart
was the music that gave her a way to communicate
and connect. "When I began singing and
writing songs, it was like: yes! I finally
found what I loved to do."Rose Falcon
includes the album's first single, "Up Up Up," a song that also appears in the soundtrack
to the Buena Vista/Disney movie, "Inspector Gadget 2."
Rose Falcon was born in New York City on May 2, 1984. "When it comes to me getting into music," she remembers, "I guess I didn't have much of a choice considering that I went directly from the hospital to a studio apartment where, every day, my dad sat and wrote songs. In other words, I was really close to the music, as our apartment consisted of only one room." When it was time for Rose to start school, the Falcon family moved to New Jersey. "Though we never had any money, everything was going pretty good until my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987. Two years later she died." Rose's experience of the loss of her mother, Myla Falcon, lies at the heart of "Best Friend." One of the most emotionally powerful pieces on Rose Falcon. "From that point on, it was my dad and me. We did everything together. I think the music started for me when we would take long car rides together and I would sing songs for my dad like I was the radio. I would ask, 'do you have any pointers for me?' He'd say, 'just keep singing.' So I did." While her father was able to provide "a somewhat 'normal' childhood" for Rose, she "never really felt like I fit in anywhere. Nothing ever clicked for me until I began writing poetry and putting into words whatever I was feeling or going through at the time." Rose's father, Billy Falcon, was also a chief musical influence. A respected singer-songwriter in his own right (as a major label recording artist, songwriter and producer), Billy couldn't help but inspire his daughter, though he never thought she'd follow in his footsteps. Then one night, in Nashville, where the Falcons live, Rose "surprised my dad by asking him to write a song with me." That day, we wrote the song, 'Looks Are Everything,' which appears, on my first album." So Rose and Billy Falcon became a songwriting team. Did she find it awkward, confessing her innermost secrets to her father as raw songwriting material? Uh, yeah--a little. "It is weird telling your dad some of this stuff," Rose admits, "but my dad's not your typical dad, and he's my best friend--so if he can't understand me, I don't know if anybody can." Rose's honesty comes across loud and clear in her down-to-earth delivery and insightful lyrics on Rose Falcon. "I write about what I go through," says Rose. "I want my songs to be like friends you turn to because you know they'll understand you when you say, 'I feel fat today.' "At the time I wrote 'Looks Are Everything,' I was just beginning to discover my body and feeling inadequate--I struggled with that for years and am finally coming to terms with it now," she says. On her debut, you'll meet Rose Falcon: a girl from New York with a vaguely Southern accent, a beautiful young woman who is passionate about her music.
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