Joining me now on Business Life, 360 is Caly Bevier, who was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio, after fighting stage three ovarian cancer at 15, Carly packed up her things to chase her dreams and start a new music journey in Los Angeles.

Today, she's a recording artist and she strives to include messages of being unapologetically herself in her music so our listeners can feel comfortable in their own skin and feel less alone in whatever they're going through.

Being influenced by a myriad of genres, Kelly loves to blend all sorts of sounds into her songs.

So we welcome to Businesslive.

36 Kelly BEVER.

Kelly, thanks for joining us.

Sure.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's so good to be back here in Toledo and with you.

Thank you.

Love having you.

You know, you're one of my favorite people.

Caly Bevier: I love you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Kristi K: So, listen, I want to talk to you about how you started in this career and this field of music.

How did you realize and at what age were you when you said, this is my thing?

This is really what I want to spend my life doing?

Caly Bevier: Yeah, it was such a weird, like a journey to get where I am now.

I never really thought that I was going to be in the music industry my whole life.

I grew up, I was singing and I was just having a good time singing in the shower, singing around the house, you know, entertaining my friends, even.

But not until I actually went through that life changing experience of having cancer.

Did I really choose to decide, like what I really wanted to do with my life and realized that, like, I did feel comfortable up on stage and that I did want to share my message through something that is bigger than me, which was which ended up being music.

So I think by the time I turned about, you know, about 18, 19, when I was already in the industry writing more music and then growing up and also finding myself was I like, this is definitely what I want to do for as long as I can sustain it.

Your talent is unbelievable, Kristi K: Your voice.

Every time I hear a new song of yours, an old song of yours, I just get goose bumps.

Kristi K: I mean, you are so talented at what you do.

Thank you.

Know, when you shifted from the state of Ohio to Los Angeles.

Tell us about that transition and how you adapted, if you will, to the recording industry.

Caly Bevier: Yeah, it was definitely a huge change.

I mean, I went from, as I said, just like entertaining my friends, singing in the car to then being thrown into a studio session where, you know, my first manager, he sent me like a list of vocabulary that I'm going to have to learn and know and use in the studio.

So it was like a big learning curve and also realizing that you really have to fight for yourself, you know, like there's no there's not many people who are going to help you because once you're out in Los Angeles, everyone's doing the same thing.

Everyone's really doing everything they can to really win at whatever their goal is, you know?

So it really pushed this new sense of like determination and grit in my own sense of self and kind of found new sides of myself with all of that.

So I think of, of course, you're going to Los Angeles is Los Angeles, Ohio is Ohio.

You know, very different places.

But I think overall, it just gave me a new sense of like just, yeah, determination.

Kristi K: You know, you have been such an advocate for girls through the years.

I know you and I have done girl leadership summits together, which is just incredible because you represent the best of the best in terms of a role model for girls.

Caly Bevier: Yeah.

I think it's so important for young girls definitely today when there's so many things to look at, so many places to be influenced by, to, you know, have someone who actually has a good message to give.

You know, there's so many there's so many artists and there's so many esthetics these days, you know.

But I think when you actually find someone who has a message, not only myself, but like all these people at the empowerment group, like that's so important for girls to listen to and just be like, I can do that, you know, So, you know, and you bring that message into your songs too, when you write them.

Kristi K: I know you said to me earlier that in 2020 it really taught you how to write music on your own even more deeply.

Yes.

How is it that you write your lyrics and your songs?

Tell us a little bit more about the process and I know you really do bring some of that, that heartfelt voice and emotion into your music.

Caly Bevier: Yeah, I think when I first started writing music, when I was first in Los Angeles back in 2017, a lot of my songwriting was around like my whole cancer journey and just trying to be extremely uplifting and positive, which of course that's great.

But as I started to grow up and like, realize it's the realities of life, I was like, okay, like I'm going to center right about my reality and be vulnerable.

But overall, the writing process normally will start with either me singing something like acapella, just coming up with like a melody and then bringing that.

It's it makes it harder for the producers because then we have to like find the chords or we will start with a track.

The producers I work with, they'll start a track and then we start doing kind of like melodies over it where it's kind of you don't really say the lyrics right away, so you can kind of be like, better than that.

But that, you know, just like little things.

And then you fill in the words wherever that whatever would sound good in that melody.

So, so many different ways to write a song.

Kristi K: There's really not a right way to write a song.

I would say one of the songs I love that you've recently written is called Prescription, and I'd love to hear more about how you came to write those lyrics.

Caly Bevier: I mean, it's just it's just a great, beautiful song.

Thank you.

Yeah, that song, actually, it's I personally love the story for this song because it wasn't going to start as anything that I was planning on releasing.

It was actually me and my husband.

We were just doing a little exercise.

We were like, What if we come up with what if we pull up like a random word generator online?

And so the word that was generated was prescription.

And then it just he started like this cool guitar like chord thing.

And then we just we came up with the song and the lyrics just kind of started spilling out.

And it's pretty much just about the person that you're with, making you feel better than what your prescription medication might make you feel, which is totally, you know, exaggerated.

I like to say keep taking your prescribed medications, but so that's how that song came to be.

I really just came from an exercise and I really like telling people like I was never a natural songwriter from the beginning.

So if you ever want to try something new, like just, just you have to put practice and work into it and you'll finally get to that point that you want to be.

I truly believe that.

Kristi K: And you have done that.

You have just gone deeper into your music, into your sound, and into how you write and record.

Tell us about your influences.

Caly Bevier: Yeah, I know you have many and I know you also got married in 2020, so I'll bet your husband has something to do with it.

Oh, just as well for like, for songwriting influences, it's definitely, you know, I pull from my relationship, but I also am inspired just by, like, the smallest things in life.

Like, I'll tell people, like, I'll walk by a dumpster and they'll be like a flowers growing behind it, and I'll be inspired by that.

So it's really like it's really just looking for the small things in life.

But then musically and sonically, I would say my biggest inspirations are probably like Paramore.

Hayley Williams, Halsey I was just listening to the new Olivia Rodrigo album in the car.

I was I was thinking of the answer to this question.

I'm not going to lie.

I knew it was coming.

And yeah, I like a lot of like pop punk type of music.

I was raised on very like, alternative stuff, like The Killers, so I really like that realm.

But overall, I like to sit in the pop circle.

Kristi K: He was so talented and we're so thankful that you're here with us today and so grateful.

Thank you so much.

Always great to have Carly here on the set of Business Life.

Three Sexy Carly, we're thrilled to have you.

Your talent, your beautiful soul right here with us.

We wish you continued good health, happiness and success.