If anyone knows how hard it is to combine career with passion, it's Julia Ryan. The up-and-coming singer and songwriter has been working on her forthcoming debut EP for years, and she's finally ready to shed the self-doubt in her new single, "To the Top."
She began to write the jazzy-rock track back when she was a student at USC's Thornton School of Music, where each peer she met was more talented and more driven than the one before. As the competition and fear of failure consumed her, "To the Top" was born as a need to start fresh with a clear mind--because above all, music at its core is about how it makes you feel.