Cup Of Coffee: Alfa

Armed with a voice and a keen sense of crafting a song, Alfa Garcia is “an artist who has a spectrum of colors in her palette, a songwriter with a knack for tickling a mainstream ear” (Music Connection Magazine., Jan 2014). A fun, energetic live show features Alfa’s singular vocal style and a revolving door of instruments – from guitar, to piano, to ukulele, to kazoo. While she’s known for a smart, thought-provoking style, audiences from Maine to California to Manila have seen Alfa pour her heart, soul and sunshine onto a crowd, with an easy charm she’s learned from years on the road.

In 2013, Alfa’s album “World Go Blue” entered the CMJ Top 200 National Charts and the College Radio Charts Top 100. WGB was recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles, under the helm of producers Marc Lacuesta (Point of Grace, Francesca Battistelli) and Paul Wight, and features top Nashville musicians Tim Lauer (The Civil Wars, Brett Dennen, Anais Mitchell), Tony Lucido (Hunter Hayes, Keith Urban, Kelly Clarkson), Ben Phillips (Blake Shelton, Plumb, Jeremy Camp), and Mike Payne (Colton Dixon, Natalie Grant, Sidewalk Prophets), as well as L.A. percussionist Nick Adams (David Cook).

Alfa’s music can also be heard on E!’s “Keeping Up With the Kardashians”, MTV’s “Friendzone”, and the forthcoming indie film, “Old Fashioned” (Skoche Films).
Alfa is a Kawai Pianos artist, alongside top-billing acts like OneRepublic and Muse, and endorses Mya-Moe Ukuleles, and Walden Guitars.

In September 2013, Alfa toured her native Philippines, playing 7 shows in 6 days, including headlining at SM Mall of Asia with Ukulele Philippines, being featured with the Philippines Department of Tourism at Manila’s SMX Convention Center, and giving an on-air performance on Magic 89.9′s nationwide radio show, Boys Night Out. Candy Magazine, a major Philippine media outlet, caught wind of Alfa’s music, and recently sang her praises: ”If you could take the Friday Night Lights meme, ‘clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose’ and turn it into a person, you’d get pop-folk singer Alfa Garcia.”

Alfa’s catchy songs touch on everything, from everlasting numbers (“The Pi Song, 3.14159265358…”) to a tragic love story told in multiple acts (“Love as Tragedy: A Play in 3 Acts”). In 2012, Music Connection Magazine placed Alfa in their “Top 25 Music Critiques,” comparing her style to songwriters Ingrid Michaelson and Sara Bareilles.

Born in the Philippines to a family of musicians, Alfa got an early start in piano and violin, playing nationally with the Children’s Orchestra Society of New York. Alfa’s music has received honorable mention from the New York Songwriters Circle and won Grand Prize at Kollaboration Acoustic 2009, a competition highlighting Asian-American talent.

After graduating from NYU and working as a reporter, Alfa took up music fully, traveling across the U.S. and beyond, steadily gaining fans along the way.

Apart from her singing career, Alfa is a music instructor with specialty in early education music. She teaches throughout the Los Angeles metro area.

Presented by Antidote30/Playa Design Executive Producer: James Elliot Green | Producer: Jared Green
Director: Eliot Aether | Director of Photography: Sergio Arguello
Camera Operator: Abdul Malik Abbott
Editor: Katrin Leo Pako | Colorist: Jake Blackstone
VFX: Jason Fordham | Makeup & Hair: Tammie Lee
Actor: Justin Juarez | Special thanks: Tanya Ragir (tanyaragir.com) & David Andersen (davidandersenpianos.com), Phil Roc, Katz Carter, Paul Condon, Rob Bieselin.

About the track:

"Cup of Coffee" is from the album "World Go Blue", released 29 January 2013

Nick Adams (drums), Alfa Garcia (lead vocals, piano, guitar), Marc Lacuesta (BGV's), Paul Wight (electric guitar), Steve Wight (bass)

Written by Alfa Garcia. Published by Gas Can Music, Orange County, CA.

Recorded and mixed by Paul Wight. Monrovia, CA. Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music. New Windsor, NY.

www.alfa-music.com



Lyrics of: "Cup Of Coffee"

VERSE 1:

Some say love is the answer
blue skies and sunsets
they're not for me
jaded the polish has faded
the heart isn't simple
so I built a wall.

PRE CHORUS:
the same refrain
I hear in my head
is telling me…

CHORUS:

How we began
with a cup of coffee then.
Oh what I would give
to get back to the palm of your hand
tell me to stay
remembering the days
when I was not afraid of falling endlessly …
over a cup coffee

VERSE 2:

Back then, we were so innocent
took every chance to give away our hears
whoa, baby, can we return to that?
Or is there no turning back from where we are?

PRE CHORUS:
But the same refrain
is stuck in my brain
telling me…

CHORUS

BRIDGE:
when the music starts
you're folding me into your arms
under cloudless skies
counting the shooting stars
we are falling in love likes are young... again

CHORUS x2