Geraldine-raised musician Jaz Paterson has taken up music fulltime, and has just released a single off her second EP, out later this year.
Paterson, 25, left her job as counsellor at the end of 2020, and her recently-released single Lonely, is one of five tracks off her upcoming EP Ache.
Paterson said Ache, due out in November, was “bittersweet’’.
Another single from the EP, also named Ache is about a guy she almost married, but they broke up which was for the best, she said.
Going fulltime with her music had been a “different experience’’, she said.
“There’s a lack of routine. I gig here and there. I love it. I grew up listening, and playing guitar from the age of 11.”
When she attended Craighead Diocesan School in 2012 she won a $3000 Adastra Foundation scholarship towards her musical endeavours.
She left Geraldine at the age of 17 and released her first EP called One Day.
Her new EP, with five tracks, has themes based on the highs and lows she experienced in her early 20s.
The singles Ache and LA will be released in September and October respectively.
She is “stoked” that NZ On Air is funding the production of a music video for LA. While Paterson has never been to Los Angeles, it is about wanting to go somewhere different.
