Hi! I’m Aura and I’m a recording artist and vocal witch. And let me tell you why you should read this very carefully…

If you’re on this platform, I know for sure you’re an amazing creative with a dream, and my witchy sixth sense tells me you pour into your songs all of your passion, personal experience, and even more importantly… all of your soul.

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Hi! I’m Aura and I’m a recording artist and vocal witch. And let me tell you why you should read this very carefully…

If you’re on this platform, I know for sure you’re an amazing creative with a dream, and my witchy sixth sense tells me you pour into your songs all of your passion, personal experience, and even more importantly… all of your soul.

I bet this is the first time you read a service presentation like this on this website (or on any website)… well, I happen to know a thing or two about having a project as an artist (and if you make music, no matter where, when or how, you ARE an artist) and feeling alone, feeling like no one of my session musicians really understands my music, and hoping the next guitar dude I hire will REALLY get it and therefore make a performance that not only sounds great, but VIBRATES on the right frequency of emotion.

I spent hours and hours looking online for a producer or musicians and I never knew who I could trust. The ones that felt right also felt very out of reach due to high prices and low availability.

In the last two years working on my music though, I understood the most important lesson in my career that I want to share with you, so listen: if you want a chance to make it you have to INVEST not only in great gear and good musicians, but you have to be willing to invest on people that give you TRUE VALUE, not on the cheaper ones.

Since I understood this truth, I’ve been able to make my own aura (pun intended) magnetic and attract to me the right people. Now I have a team of trusted professionals that really care about and truly believe in what I do, and my music has never sounded so ALIVE.

That’s why I want you to read this carefully, because I SEE you.
Have you ever sent your work to someone who didn’t get it’s true value, or worse, who didn’t even respond to your message?

Have you ever hired a professional drummer, a mixing engeneer or a vocalist for your track, and… well… (unprofessional people aside) they DID deliver what you asked for, BUT:
- You feel like they didn’t really get the emotions you wanted to convey in THAT specific passage;
- Their interpretation (though good and technically nice) was not REALLY connected to the meaning the song has for you;
- They were nice people, but didn’t seem to care about the music as much as you do.

They could have at least have shown an interest in the meaning of the song, right?

After all the effort, the sleepless nights in front of pen, paper, and your favourite instrument, or in front of your most beloved daw and plugins… after all the ads, and the content, and whatever method of promotion available out there… after all the money spent on technical gear… let me tell you, I know how you feel.

It’s such a shame that the very people that should contribute to create the building blocks of the very art you conceived form your creative soul didn’t really care about it. Trust me, I’ve been there.

An you know what? You should NOT let your song be ruined by a bad interpretation.

So, if you want to make your song great you must know that one of the most important elements that can make it so are, of course, the main vocals. Why? Because they not only express the words that make up the very meaning and message of the song, but because the voice, being an “instrument” that lives INSIDE of one’s body, is one of the most expressive and evocative tools we have to convey real, raw emotion, and therefore it is able to transmit that emotion effectively to the audience and make them really FEEL IT.

I’m the first to make music for myself and my own self expression, but what is music really worth if it doesn’t communicate effectively and create emotion in the audience?

You know I’m a vocalist by now, but I will tell you something that goes against my own interest here: great vocal skills and virtuosities worth of Queen Whitney are actually worth NOTHING if there is no emotion.

While you should never choose a mediocre vocalist just because it’s cheaper, and hope to be able to correct a mediocre performance with editing (spoiler, it will never sound good), I can guarantee that the right vocalist for you is not the most technically capable, the one that sounds just like Adele, or the one that once did the backing vocals for John Legend.

The right vocalist for you is the one that can really connect with your music, your vision of the world, and use his/her unique voice and identity to give even more value to your message through his or her own sensibility as an artist.

It is, in fact, a partnership. Every musician involved in your project should not only be professional, he/she should genuinely care about making something meaningful.

That’s why I don’t want to waste your time going on and on on how I have been an actress for 18 years and know perfectly how to FEEL something and make it be FELT by others, or on how I recently worked on a soundtrack for cinema, on how “versatile” I am since I have been singing lots of genres through my career (Gospel, pop, musical theatre, electronic…), on how my voice sounds, or on and how good I am at being the perfect vocal copy of the queen of whimsy miss Aurora Askness herself (when I want to).

You don’t care about that, because all of this skills are sure what lies under the surface of a great performance, but the result on every song I work at will be new and DIFFERENT every time, because every client and every song has a soul of it’s own!

I don’t care about genres. What matters to me is that the song is well produced, well written and of course that I personally connect to the message behind it and feel like I can deliver a great performance.

That is why I don’t work with everybody and I carefully select the projects I want to give my voice to. I’ll be brutal, but I don’t care about making a lot of sales working on songs that I can’t connect to or that are not up to my standards. I’d rather sing less songs, but in a meaningful and impactful way, giving my time and focus to the right ones.

The sample songs are yours to listen to, so I won’t try to convince you I am good at my job.

SO! If you want an opportunity to have my voice and a sprinkle of my own witchy magic forever recorded on you track, here’s how it works:

STEP 1:
DON’T BUY IMMEDIATELY, message me first with:
- Your personal pitch as an artist, producer, creative, whatever you do: tell me WHAT you do and WHY you do it
- Any insight on the team you work with (if you work with a team)
- Your process: how do you create and produce your songs?
- Your song idea with a detailed description of it’s meaning
- All the material you have available at the moment (scores, mp3 files, voice guideline…)
- Past experiences and material if you have any
- Any specific requests, thoughts or expectations you have

STEP 2
I’ll always answer telling you if I want to work on it (and if I don’t, I’ll always give you my reasons and some useful insights. Don’t be offended if I decline a perfectly good song: maybe I just didn’t vibe with it!)

STEP 3
We will further discuss the matter to define what you need via a FREE Zoom call, that will be recorded and sent to you for later reference.

STEP 4
If we are both satisfied with the call, I will send you a price offer, specific to your project and needs. The proposal will NOT be negotiable.
If you accept the offer we will proceed to the next step.

STEP 5
We will schedule another call, to talk about your vision, meanings and nuances behind every section of the songs, context, dynamics, technical requirements and so on.
We will then discuss the deadline for delivery. It usually takes me at least a week to make it perfect and send you the finished work, but it could take more if needed.
This call will also be recorded and sent to you for later reference.

STEP 6
I will proceed to work on the song, we will keep in contact via AirGigs chat and I will tell you if I need any further insights.

STEP 7
I will deliver all of the stems for all of the vocals I recorded, in .waw format (or the format you need). If you are satisfied, my job is done and we can leave each other a review!
If you are not completely satisfied and I misinterpreted some of your requests, I offer you a maximum of ONE free revision. In the rare case you need more, I will make you a new offer to cover the price or the new revision.

STEP 8
Not optional: send me the final mixed and mastered result and let me know how it goes with the release! I HATE when people get the stems and ghost me. Since I care about making great music, I also care about how it worked out for you, and I will be happy to share it on my platforms too!

IMPORTANT NOTES:

PAYMENT AND ROYALTIES:
I normally just get payed for the service and don’t want any royalties, EXCEPT when I give creative input about the topline or lyrics. In that scenario, we would discuss the matter personally and find an agreement that satisfies both parts.

I will also decide If I want to be credited with my stage name “Aura”, only if the song is really compatible with the themes of my own project as a solo artist. (If not, you will credit me with my real name Letizia).

VOCAL TIMBRE AND STYLE:
If you want me to sing like someone else, I’m not the right vocalist for you. I might “remind you of…” or “sound a bit like…”, but I won’t change my personal style for you. Though, I will always adapt my dynamics, technique and interpretation based on the true meaning of the song and my interpretation of it.

N.B. As you might have noticed listening to the samples, I have a slight Italian accent (I am, in fact, Italian), but that is normally a plus for the people who choose me for vocals. If you don’t like it, just looking for someone else.

TECHNICAL STUFF:
My voice falls in the cathegory of light/lyric soprano and extends from F3 to E6 (considering C4 as the central C).

For online jobs I normally record from my home studio with an Audient iD14 MKII Audio Interface and a Shure beta 58A Microphone. This has always satisfied my clients.

From your part, I will of course always need a base or beat, and I want a clear recorded guideline for the voice (made by you if you can sing, or made someone else or by an instrument like a violin if you can’t), as well as a score.

TUNING AND EDITING:
I always deliver RAW .waw vocals with no tuning or effects, so you can work on it later as you like.

With that said, I strongly believe that music can only be effective when it’s as REAL as possible, and don’t appreciate for my voice to be heavily edited. You will notice you won’t need to tune or correct the timing of my voice anyway. When and if I’m not perfectly on the beat, it’s ALWAYS on purpose to give movement to the interpretation.

Please note that ALL of the sample vocals you can hear on my profile are NOT tuned or put into a grid artificially.

Of course I’m not a robot, but if you want a robot to sing your song just get an AI and make a song with no soul for cheaper…

CHECK ME OUT:
I’m not famous, but I’m a pro. You can check me out here:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/iosono_aura/?next=%2F
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@iosono_aura/playlists

So… I know you have a song for me and I honestly can wait to see what you have to share!
Stop scrolling and waiting around and let’s make some magic together!
Message me now!


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