Just this past year, MacKenzie has worked on four film projects - The Horses of McBride, Leap 4 Your Life, Tom, Dick and Harriet, and A Killer Among Us - and has most recently released her first single "I Wish I'd Known." Check out the brand new music video:
Such a nice song and beautifully made music video!
Here is a glimpse into our interview -
Q: 2012 has been a pretty busy year so far, with both
singing and acting, and you’re promoting your new single across Canada right
now – how is that going?
MacKenzie
Porter: It’s going really well. We started in Vancouver and made our way to
Toronto and the Ontario area and then eventually over to the Maritimes as well.
So far, the reaction from everybody after they heard the song has been really
great.
Q: Where do you get your inspiration for song writing?
MP:
I try to write all my stuff from my own experiences or something that one of my
friends are going through. I think it’s hard to write if you haven’t actually
experienced it, so yeah everything I write is from my own experiences.
Q: Your song is called “I Wish I’d Known” so what would you
tell your teenage self; what do you wish you knew?
MP:
Probably not to worry about things and enjoy things more because I naturally am
a person that gets stressed out about things or overwhelmed about things, so
just to chill out and enjoy the moment I think.
Q: Coming from such a talented musical family, what pushed
you to pursue a solo career?
MP:
It’s something I’ve always wanted to do. I did see my older brother doing it
and doing it really well. And so that always pushed me and made me realize that
it was possible and within my reach. I guess Kalan was really encouraging to me
to just go forward and do music as a profession and a career.
Q: Would you guys work together in the future?
MP:
We’ve actually written quite a bit together. We wrote this one song that we
wanted to do as a duet, but it was a love song, so we were like that’s a little
weird. So we probably won’t be doing that. But yeah if he’s up for it in the
future, that’s definitely something we could do.
Q: Coming from Medicine Hat, how has the city influenced you
as a musician?
MP:
In a lot of ways. They have a really strong arts community in Medicine Hat and
some really fantastic teachers and other musicians I grew up playing music
with. So just the fact that they’ve created such a great cultural centre, a
good centre for kids to be able to learn instruments, it’s been everything for
my career.
Q: Why did you choose to do country music?
MP:
I guess because I grew up on a Buffalo ranch and it’s been in my family for
five generations, so it was always something I’ve grown up listening to, and
that my dad and mom would listen to. So for the first six or seven years of my life,
it’s all I ever really knew. I like country music, I love it.
Q: Would you branch out to other genres?
MP: Yeah, totally. When I was first trying to find my voice in music it was right
when Lady Gaga was really big so I wanted to be like Lady Gaga and had all
these techno pop songs I was writing. I
would write little synth boards at Long & McQuade or at any music store and
write pop songs. But I love all sorts of music so I’m planning and writing a
lot write now, so I would totally write for pop artists or rock and
singer-songwriter stuff too.
Q: Who do you look up to in the music industry?
MP:
A lot of people. In country right now, I’m loving Miranda Lambert’s latest
album. It’s so good and there’s quite a few songs on there that are her singles
but the rest of the album is just fantastic I think. So I really like her.
There are lots of other groups I like that aren’t country, like A Fine Frenzy.
Most of the people I listen to or look up to are women, female artists. I’ll
hear vocal stylings that they do and I’ll try to impersonate them so I can
expand my range of how I sing and the different voices I can use when I sing.
Q: You’ve play in shows with some pretty huge names, like
Kenny Chesney and Miranda Lambert – how does it feel to be on those same stages
as them?
MP:
It’s pretty nerve-wracking. They are pros and I’m so new at this and just
starting my career. But I mean, it’s awesome, I’ll take any show like that I
can get. But when I’m up there I really feel like I’m so lucky and thinking
that the whole time I’m up there. So it’s kind of surreal.
Q: If you had to choose: singing or acting?
MP:
I don’t think I can choose. I know that everyone says at some point you have to
choose but I haven’t hit that moment yet. I started at a younger age with
music, so that’s always been a major love of mine, but I was passionate about
acting and fell into the film industry. Can I say both?
Q: What is the highlight of 2012 so far for you?
MP:
Probably just because it happened today so it’s newer in my mind, we were
driving down the highway coming home today and I heard my song on the radio for
the first time. That was kind of weird. We have a video of me dancing in the
car to it. It’s a weird feeling, not just hearing the song, but hearing the
announcer talk about it before and after and hearing people
call in and request it. That is so weird
to me. At this moment, that would be the highlight since it was today.
Q: What’s up next for you?
MP:
I am working on the full album. I will leave on Tuesday to go back to Nashville
and I’m going to be recording down there this time. And I’m going to some of
the Country Music Week parties and events so hopefully I’ll run into some cool
musicians. But right now, my plans are to work on my album and get my second single
out and see how this one does. As far as acting, I’m just waiting for my next
project, it’s just that kind of industry I guess.
Keep an eye out for my article featuring MacKenzie Porter in the next issue of Faze Magazine!
Find more from this Canadian talent at http://www.mackenzieporter.ca/
- Christina
Follow my adventures on Twitter: @christinaaa28
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