Pop/rock recording artist Ava Aston is a conservative trying to make her way in a liberal dominated industry. Her new hit and conservative anthem is We The People. Her song I Carry You With Me deals with grief and loss and is dedicated to the military.
She has performed those two songs, as well as the National Anthem and God Bless America for The Faith & Freedom Coalition events as well as The Tea Party Patriots. I Carry You With Me has been featured in several independent films and took grand prize in a songwriting contest that had over 5,000 entries from across the globe. Her husband is a disabled veteran who was injured on base while serving in a support role for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Her mom works as a National Service Officer at the Purple Heart Service Foundation that helps veterans.
The following interview with Ms. Aston was conducted by Jamie Glazov, Editor of FrontPage Magazine.
Glazov: Ava Aston, thanks for taking the time for this interview.
Let’s begin by talking about your background a bit. Tell us about how you got into music and also what makes you a conservative.
Aston: Thanks Jamie.
I started singing about the same time I started to talk. Music has always been a huge part of my life. I was kind of like a little Tina Turner in the movie, singing with the hairbrush in the mirror. As I grew up I started to hear melodies in my head. I did not play an instrument, so I started writing them down the only way I knew how, putting words in notebooks. As the songs came I discovered that as long as I wrote them down on paper they were there forever. I could pick them up at any time and sing them. So I have always just sung my songs to whomever I’m collaborating with – and they play the chords I’m singing either on a guitar or piano. I started taking voice lessons at an early age, and have been told that I have perfect pitch, so it’s easy for me to direct producers/musicians to the melody. I’ve been working on my craft ever since, and working at attaining my dream.
As for being a conservative, it is just how I was raised. My dad came to America from Greece with $20 in his pocket to live the American Dream. He worked hard and became a success. My mom came from a family that worked very hard, and she started working at 11-years-old cleaning houses to help out with the family. It is just something you are either ingrained with or not. Lately we seem to be living in the “Now Generation”. People want things NOW regardless of the consequences to themselves or others. I don’t really “get” a lot of what’s pushed on people as “entertainment”. I see it as nonsense that only encourages the “NOW” epidemic. I’m just a simple girl, I like to sing, write songs, act, love God and my country. I’m not really sure when it became cool to go on stage in your underpants. I know that being shocking sells, but as a conservative I feel you can be relevant, current, and still keep your clothes on, just saying.
Glazov: Share with us what We The People is about and what inspired you to write it.
Aston: Basically it came from a simple place. I saw the country I knew and loved being changed in a way that frightened me. Most of my songs are usually about something I feel or that has happened to me. I was tired of yelling at my TV screen – so I wrote about it.
My song is for every American, it not about left or right, it is about right and wrong. It is about that sacred document — the one thing that was meant to guide our country for all time, the Constitution. People have given their lives for the freedoms we have here. There are many people who do not realize the cost of what we have here in America. People get tangled up in rhetoric, fighting and being afraid to say things in order to be PC. If we are afraid to speak up about what really matters, we will lose our Republic. There are individuals who have a very different idea about America and want to fundamentally change it. If we do not stand up now and stop it now, America will be lost and we might as well be part of the EU. Trust me, my dad lives there and it’s not pretty.
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The narrative seems odd on one point. Early on, Ms. Aston says “My dad came to America from Greece with $20 in his pocket to live the American Dream. He worked hard and became a success.”
At the bottom of p. 1, she says, If we do not stand up now and stop it now, America will be lost and we might as well be part of the EU. Trust me, my dad lives there and it’s not pretty.”
Did her dad go back to the EU (Greece?)? If he succeeded here, why? Or, is “my dad lives here” a mistake–maybe a misquote for “my grand- dad lives there…”?
My dad retired back to Greece. Therefore he does live there now. However with 19% sales tax, $1200 “Euro” / month electric bills, and having to purchase private health ins. as the gvt run system does not provide proper treatment – one can not stay retired. So alas he is back to work some more. There is not much opportunity there, is what I was saying. Blessings. Ava