Lindi Ortega Quotes

Canada, Singer-Songwriter
May 28, 1980

Lindi Ortega (born May 28, 1980) is a Canadian country singer-songwriter . She spent nearly a decade as an independent artist in the Toronto music scene, releasing two albums and an EP in that time. She has been described as "Toronto's best kept secret" and nicknamed "Indie Lindi".Ortega left Last Gang management and records in November 2017. She has since released Til The Goin' Gets Gone EP and her full-length Liberty on her own label Shadowbox Music.

I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it.

Lindi Ortega
Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.

Lindi Ortega
- Song
- Alien

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

Lindi Ortega
- Up
- Growing
- Dad
The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.

Lindi Ortega
- Music
- Country
- History
I like passion in voices. I like passion in music. And I find that, sometimes with today's music, it's just so perfect - it's that high fidelity and all of the auto-tuning and all that stuff. It's too perfect for my ears.

Lindi Ortega
- Music
- High
- Today
I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere.

Lindi Ortega
- People
- Up
I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

Lindi Ortega
- Work
- Different
I'm not ashamed to admit that I've written some really bad songs and I've had some bad performances.

Lindi Ortega
- Bad

I love singing.

Lindi Ortega
- Singing
It's always my goal to raise the bar with each record I put out.

Lindi Ortega