Credible Authenticity with Barb Morrison

The word authenticity gets thrown around a lot to the point that its meaning gets diluted, so producer, composer, mentor and guest for this episode of Camera, Ready & Abel, Barb Morrison couples it with credible to combine true to one's own personality with worthy of trust. In other words, don't just tell me you're authentic, show me.

Barb lives it every day.

Barb says authenticity is a feeling, measured not by how others feel about you but how you feel about yourself when you look yourself in the eye. It's essential to Barb's work as a Music Mentor: I look them in the eye and I say, instead of trying to make the right pop record or the right dance record or whatever you're trying to fit into, what is it that's unique about you? That's your story and your message to the world.

Barb is a Top 5 Billboard dance chart songwriter, and Platinum record producer, best known as a producer for numerous artists such as Blondie, Rufus Wainwright, Franz Ferdinand, LP, Asia Kate Dillon and as an ASCAP-featured film score composer.

Learn more about Barb and Music Mentor at www.barbmorrisonmusic.com.

For more on authenticity, listen to Episode 5 of Camera Ready & Abel with Sean De Simone: Authenticity is a Process, Not Just a Buzzword (and that process has a lot to do with your breath work).