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Cindy Sterling Pours Heart and Harmony into Debut Album “Roxbury Romance”

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4 months ago

01/07/2024

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Cindy Sterling released her debut album “Roxbury Romance” on December 13th. The album is named after the popular Beverly Hills street, Roxbury Drive, which is located in the neighborhood where the artist resided during the conception of the album. “Roxbury Romance” is a reflection of Sterling’s emotions in different stages of romantic relationships growing up in Beverly Hills.

Based on Sterling’s journey of learning the true emotions of her inner self while drawing on the pertinent memories of past lovers, “Roxbury Romance” spans Cindy Sterling’s longest relationship of her life which lasted about five years. They traveled the world together, got a home together, and built a business and life together while she was still learning about herself and coming into her own and her life’s purpose. Sterling uncovers how beautiful those memories were and how they impacted her life and character, and helped her conclude as to what she was longing for and desiring while continuing to evolve as a person. In the album, Cindy Sterling eludes to the topics of heartache, fantasy, desire, despair, separation, sadness, and guilt, then even admits to her part in maybe even loving some of the toxicity and taking ownership of her part in any mistakes made along the way.

Cindy Sterling, Roxbury Romance

The title song ‘Roxbury Romance’ was written in Sterling’s Beverly Hills home and she re-visited it in her West Hollywood home as she continued to learn more about herself and piece together the album. The artist used melancholy walks with her dog nestled between Roxbury and Benedict Canyon and songwriting as outlets to process her emotions on her past relationships. She reflects that “while on these walks and with writing, I discovered the way I actually felt about deeper things I needed to heal. My music was a subconscious reflection of things I felt but never knew how to put into words until I put it into music.”

“Roxbury Romance” was written as Sterling started to better understand her feelings before, during, and after the longest relationship of her life, to which the couple almost got engaged, and while she loved the person, felt she still needed to grow. The common theme underlying the songs in the album is relatable to those with a goal so big they feel like they are ignoring in passing while knowing what they still need to accomplish in life, which causes the person to unknowingly become the runner in relationships, as they move forward in the direction of chasing their dreams.

Cindy Sterling’s music is a love letter to those chasing their dreams, those who are heartbroken and healing, and those still learning about who they are, actively searching for the answers.

Sterling describes the indie-pop album as:

“almost like a love letter, a break-up letter, and a letter to myself understanding how to love my life, cherish memories, look forward to the what if of the future, and learn to embrace the unknown and move on, and most importantly look out for my mental health and love myself. This album is my first ever and extremely important to me as it was an era of learning how to put my feelings for myself first & leave a very privileged situation, to which I did not grow up with, to become the best, most authentic version of myself.”

Born and Raised in Los Angeles, CA, to divorced parents, Cindy Sterling found comfort in listening to music and discovering new artists as a way to cope with feelings she did not know how to speak about. Through this comfort, she began songwriting, playing guitar, piano, and singing. While Cindy Sterling also grew up acting, her biggest passion has always been to create & distribute music. With influence from artists such as Lana Del Rey, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Nessa Barrett, Clairo, Girl in Red, Dominic Fike, Blackbear, and Halsey.

Sterling is creating an indie pop sound for herself like nothing ever heard before. Emerging from this chapter of her life which encompasses so much heartache, she is set to release her next single “Shut My Eyes” following the album, which dives into a different genre of Dance Pop, DarkPop, and Synthwave, which the energy of her music shifts as she breaks out of an era of deep confusion and despair and reclaims her power and herself back, emerging with a new energy of sound.

“Shut My Eyes” was exclusively premiered at Cindy Sterling’s first performance in Houston, Texas – hosted by New York record label United Masters and Bulliet Whiskey.