ABOUT

alecia haselton is an alt folk/rock singer, musician, and songwriter based in Nashville. Her roots are in Corralitos, California, near Santa Cruz. Here she grew up surrounded by apple orchards, and the sweet smell of freshly cut hay in the farm fields below. Her early years mostly revolved around riding and competing horses, following in the footsteps of her mom. She didn’t get into the competitive jazz choir in high school, so she brushed her singing dreams away, under the rug.

But secretly, she was obsessed with Avril Lavigne and My Chemical Romance, and longed to be on stage singing to hundreds of people, just like them. alecia sang in her room when no one was home. She couldn’t wait to get her driver’s license just so she would have a small, quiet, private place to practice singing. She taught herself to sing by listening to the radio and imitating the different voices and styles. But she never thought she could seriously pursue the thing.

Plans to become a doctor were abandoned when she left college back-east in 2012, longing for something more meaningful. It didn’t feel right. She ended up taking music classes at Cabrillo College, perhaps influenced by the presence of music on both sides of her family: her father is a classical pianist and opera singer and her grandmother on her mother’s side was an opera singer. She enrolled at School of Rock, and her first show ever on stage was singing Led Zeppelin songs with a full band in Palo Alto. Her first original band was an alt rock group, The Valerias, out of Watsonville, that lasted about a year.

Alecia graduated with an associate’s degree in music in 2017, all the while singing for pop punk band Get Out in the East Bay. This was a band that won a Battle of the Bands contest The Valerias placed third in. alecia always kept her eyes on the winning band after that, and eventually joined them! Get Out played iconic venues such at Green Day’s stomping grounds 924 Gilman and toured the west coast. College acceptance letters and big-kid career decisions broke the young group up, and she soon realized it was hard to find a group of 5 people with similar schedules, goals, and temperaments. So, she started learning instruments on her own, such as guitar, piano, ukulele, and autoharp, to write her own songs.

In 2018 she had her first gig in the bay area. Over the next few years, she played many solo acoustic shows in California, as well as keyboard in several original bands. At the end of 2019 she decided to move to her life-long love Hawai’i, where she lived and played music professionally for two beautiful years.

A birthday visit to never-before-seen Nashville in June of 2021 planted a seed. Although she was in love with island life, maybe there was more industry and networking to be experienced beyond her little paradise. She moved to Nashville in the fall of 2021 to pursue music more intensely.

alecia now sings with a rock/country cover band on Broadway, the main street in downtown Nashville, 4-6 times a week for work. She had her first full band original showcase in August of 2023. She’s currently working on production for more original songs to be released next year. She’s also looking to join a rock band again, pining for the pop punk days of Get Out.

alecia haselton has an EP and four singles released, available online wherever you listen to music. She also has two music videos and a lyric video on her YouTube channel. Her original songs remind listeners of Jewel, Alanis Morisette, The Cranberries, and Natalie Merchant.