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Windsor, Ontario
Canada
Crissi Cochrane combines the heart of an East Coast singer-songwriter with the soul of Windsor/Detroit, living and writing just a stone's throw away from the birthplace of Motown.
Crissi Cochrane is a pop/soul singer-songwriter from Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Read her blog to find out her latest news.
Today, I’m releasing a brand-new live video of the song, filmed on our back steps where we captured some of the main shots of the video. I love the idea of creating a live video of the song in the same setting where the music video was captured - something that we did for the Drive All Night music video years ago.
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Read MoreIt is my great pride and joy to finally announce that my pandemic-inspired single, “Can We Go Back”, is now available on all major streaming platforms, and the music video is officially out now on YouTube! I’m excited to share with you some more about the way I approached writing this song, and how happy I am that I was able to create a music video at home with my husband as the director.
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Read MoreWhen I was writing the lyrics for “Can We Go Back”, and really wishing I could just jump in the car and go for a drive and not have to think about bringing masks and hand sani and keeping the windows rolled up, I realized that I had the perfect photos to go along with the song - from the shoot with the pink Cadillac.
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Read MoreI also debuted a brand-new song on stream, a song that I’m tentatively calling “Why”. I’m really relieved to finally be writing new songs again. This song definitely feels like me, but it still feels like something a bit more creative and unexpected, which is the direction I’d like to go. I wrote the chorus a week or two ago, and then I decided to write verses inspired by the book “The Shoemaker’s Wife” by Adriana Trigiani that I finished reading at the end of July.
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Read MoreNow that I’ve released two full albums that I’m really proud of, and a number of singles and other projects, I no longer feel like I need to distance myself from the way I sang things almost ten years ago. And besides - my goodness, the video is AMAZING.
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Read MoreI was smitten, but I don’t think he ever actually called me his girlfriend - what we had was undefined. Mutual friends were always telling me they’d seen him somewhere with someone else, but I was mostly too infatuated to give up on him (and all this drama provided such great inspiration for my angsty poetry).
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Read MoreAt the start of the month, Jeff Burrows reached out to us to see if Mike, myself, and two other artists from the Soul City Music Co-op - Madeline Doornaert and Dane Roberts - would be willing to record some live performances for the Bluesfest’s Yunity Front Porch Party series. Of course, we were completely honoured and thrilled to be invited to collaborate with a massive, beloved local festival, and quickly agreed.
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Read MoreI decided to share a song from each of my past three releases, so I opened with “And Still We Move” from Little Sway, followed by “Only You & Me” from Heirloom, and finishing with “Drive All Night” from Pretty Alright. The library invited me to share some book recommendations so I divulged some of my favourite writers and favourite kinds of books to read at the end of the video, and talked about how reading is keeping me sane during the pandemic!
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Read MoreAs soon as we got the album and put it on the turntable, Adeila was clambering onto my lap asking me to dance with her. Mike and I took turns bouncing and singing with her until we collapsed, sweaty and exhausted, for the three-song denouement on the B side (Everything, Heaven, Midnight Wind).
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Read MoreThanks so much to all who joined tonight’s live-stream! I had such a lovely time connecting with you, and sharing some tunes that I don’t play as often. I debuted “One World Or None” on the stream tonight, a tune of mine written a few years ago that I haven’t played in ages, but still really adore. And I especially had fun singing ‘I Heard Love Is Blind”, and testing out my new re-worded Sam Cooke cover which is now called “The Mystic”.
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Read MoreI think that was the only time I ever felt just the slightest regret for not having subscribed to the puritanical idea of “saving oneself for marriage”. Because you do give a little piece of yourself away to your old lovers, even if it’s a piece you don’t miss, or one that you replace.
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Read More"Only You & Me" is a sultry, romantic remix, produced by award-winning and chart-topping Canadian emcee, Rel McCoy. Lush with sensual strings, and thick with beats, "Only You & Me" speaks the love language of lock-down quality time - the whole world disappears in sexy, dreamy vibes.
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Read MoreShortly after I released Little Sway, I started trying to sweep my earlier, folk-tinged releases under the rug. I had them removed from all major digital platforms, and I think I even went so far as to go around YouTube and submit takedown requests for videos that used my music from those earlier days, hoping that, should anyone look me up, they’d find only the latest and greatest. But since then, I’m feeling much less insecure about my body of work, and really happy with the growth and progress that my discography makes plain.
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Read MoreMarc has been a tremendous supporter of our music community, and he always asks thought-provoking questions that make me realize new things about myself and the things that I do. I really enjoyed sharing some thoughts with him - and hearing Mike’s thoughts too - about our transition into regular live-streaming entertainment.
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Read MoreI felt like I had that bright, nervous energy that I’d get from performing in-person shows. I love trying to control and harness that great thrill. And I was just so happy to get dolled up - I haven’t worn my hair in a donut bun yet on stream, and I used a super cool magnetic eyeliner and eyelashes combo that I didn’t even know existed until my trip to the drug store on Friday.
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Read MoreI was asked to talk about how my album has been received during the pandemic. I could never have foreseen how my year would change, going into lockdown just two weeks after releasing the album. But this album is not unsuited to these times: it comes from a place of strength, resilience, and reflection, all things that are pretty valuable right now.
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Read MoreOn Saturday, to minimal fanfare, The Family Soul (a Windsor-based horn-fuelled soul band, fronted by my husband Soul Brother Mike), in which I play flute and sing back-up vocals, released our first EP of original music, the follow-up to our full-length cover album released last fall. You can find it now on all major digital platforms.
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Read MoreAfter 7 rounds of voting, and oh-so-many tweets, I have the great honour of having being named your Favourite East Coast Solo Artist!
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Read MoreAfter much thought, I have decided to postpone the release of my upcoming single, “Can We Go Back”, which was originally scheduled for release on July 17.
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Read MoreIn the last song of the set, my little cat Jenny decided to jump up into my lap while I was in the middle of playing Carole King’s “It’s Too Late”. There’s a first time for everything! It’s not too often that you get to rub a cat’s face with your hand while you’re playing guitar.
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