Kailey Marshall Releases Debut Concept Album GHOSTWRITER

Today, Friday, January 28, Kailey Marshall released her debut, full-length concept album, Ghostwriter.

This album tells the story of a high profile pop star who takes a step back from her career, simultaneously leaving an abusive relationship with her girlfriend and manager. When she meets a fellow songwriter who encourages her to start writing her own music, the two fall in love and create a whole new album and sound together.

Shares MARSHALL, "I hope people walk away from listening to this album having danced or bopped through most of it. I hope they had fun. And I hope they get to assign a moment to it. That's my favorite thing that music does in general; for me it narrates significant moments in my life that I'll never forget because of the song."

Ghostwriter was produced, recorded, and engineered by Devin Lewis. The album features drums by Ashley Baier, plus bass and guitar by NOAH EVAN WILSON. Ghostwriter was mixed and mastered by ATMAN SHETH.

This concept musical theater album features several vocalists, including Monica Rosenblatt, SAVY JACKSON (Once on this Island National Tour), Aury Krebs (Way Down), LEILANI CARR, BETHANY PERKINS, CINDY TSAI, Mary Claire Miskell (13: The Musical), and Kerri George (High Maintenance).

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As a songwriter, MARSHALL was selected as one of five composers in 2016 for New Dramatist's Composer/Librettist Studio, a two week intensive in collaboration with the playwrights in residence at New Dramatists. She won the Twenty-Somethings Two Fresh Pens Contest with her song "Give It Up" and in 2019, won Taylor Louderman's Write Out Loud competition with her song, "Brave."

For MARSHALL, "My songwriting process almost always starts with the lyrics. I'll get a lyrical idea and jot in down, and from there I can usually hear a melody or rhythmic pattern that might move with it. Once I have that hint of the song I'll usually sit down at a piano and try to bang the whole thing out." Often, she finds inspiration from the likes of Tori Amos and Robyn.

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Kailey Marshall is a New York-based composer/lyricist. As a performer of her own work, Marshall creates femme forward, pop-infused musical theatre. Marshall's work has been featured at Feinstein's/54 Below, Joe's Pub, Don't Tell Mama's, the Highline Ballroom, and Lincoln Center. She was also featured at Feinstein's/54 Below as part of the New Writers Series, where she performed, music directed, and wrote an evening of new material. She has received readings of two of her shows, Confirmed and Songs for Slutty Girls, in association with Pace University's New Musicals Program, and Don't Tell Mama's. In 2015, Marshall music directed the New York Times Critic Pick, If I Never Love Again, by Clare Barron, at the Bushwick Starr. Her country revenge thriller, Vengeance, was most recently developed as a part of Molloy College's Pop/Rock Lab. Marshall is currently working on A Long Line of O'Brien Women, a musical foray into death, ancestry, and forgiveness, which is being commissioned by Nebraska Wesleyan University. kaileymarshall.com