Hillary is currently writing on the Joe Taylor project (myspace.com/joetaylorsongs) with Producer Jeff Gross and GRAMMY winning engineer Matty Spindel. Her songs have been heard on So You Think You Can Dance, Days of Our Lives, E!'s Kimora Lee: Life in the Fab Lane, Countdown to the Emmy's, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, among others.
A writer across genres, from R&B to Pop, Country and even Latin (utilizing her Spanish fluency), Hillary has won nods and awards from the Billboard Songwriting Contest (1st Place, 2003), John Lennon Songwriting Contest (Finalist, 2004), VH-1 Song of the Year (1st Place Monthly Winner, 2004), USA Songwriting Contest and Festival de la Canción (2-song winner, 2004), among others.
Hillary Bernstein's gift for songwriting was first discovered at age nine by her violin teacher, a singer-songwriter herself. Impressed by her young students talent, she quickly changed the focus of Hillarys lessons from violin to songwriting and soon after, had the ten-year-old opening for her with original songs at local venues in her native town of Berkeley, California.
Since then, Hillary has continued to hone her musicality and songwriting with years of singing and songwriting classes and experiences, including a tour of Italy with the Wellesley College choir, participation in the NCSA (Northern California Songwriting Association), and collaborations with many local writers and artists.
As a child, Hillary was inspired by the pop ballads of artists such as Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, and the soulful bent of Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, and Michael Jackson can be heard in her R&B writing. Hillary sees the success of artists such as Alicia Keys and John Legend as an indication that there is still an appreciation for quality songwriting with soul and substance. Her goal is to write songs for artists in that vein, and has set out to distinguish herself in the current musical scene by writing with intelligence, soul, humor and emotion.
What's up?!?! Just wanna remind you about our next gig at Club Good Hurt in West Los Angeles.
Disstrick hits the stage at 11:45pm, but doors open at 8 o'clock and the music starts at 9pm with Myra Washington (R&B/Soul/Pop/Rock). Clave (Latin/Rock) plays at 10pm and Mayaztek (Latin/Reggae) at 11pm.
$10 Cover ($8 with presale ticket) 21+ only.
Club Good Hurt 12249 Venice Blvd West Los Angeles, CA 90066 **1 block East of Centinela Blvd**
Hillaryta Hermosa ! Como estas ? Espero que super bien ! Solo para desearte un año 2009 increible ! Que cumplas muchos sueños y metas ! Te lo mereces ! Con mucho cariño !
...would love to see you at Hotel Cafe this Saturday!!!
---------------------------- Saturday, March 8th - 8:30PM ---------------------------- The Hotel Cafe 1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd Hollywood, CA 90028 Cost: $7
Hey Hillary! I heard "clueless" at the ASCAP Expo & your voice sounded BEAUTIFUL!!! Hope all is well & we should def plan a girls night w/ Alison soon :)
