Spotlight on Business: Tell us about your journey from Nova Scotia to Los Angeles - and back again. Maggie Andrew: I moved out when I was 17 years old and went to LA to record my first track. My brother Trevor had moved there from New York, and he flew me out after hearing one of my early songs. I had never even been in a studio before. Being in LA opened everything up for me - it felt like exactly where I was meant to be. But I was also running from stuff. I was sexually abused by a family member for 10 years and had a tough home life, so when I left, I didn’t really have anything to come back to. My brother basically became my parental figure. He told me, if you have a plan B, you’re subconsciously giving up on plan A. That stuck. So, I stayed in LA for three years. Then the pandemic hit. My friend Andy Hines was flying back to Nova Scotia and offered me a seat. I went. It wasn’t my plan, but it ended up being the start of something new. I wasn’t even really part of the East Coast music scene before, but I got invited to a Music Nova Scotia songwriting camp, and it changed everything. Spotlight on Business: How has social media played a role in your artistic journey? Maggie Andrew: It’s helped, for sure. I’ve been online since I was 12, so social media doesn’t feel performative to me. It’s just an extension of my personality. The key is to People want real - I try to give them that. ” “
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My older brother Trevor was always the blueprint for me - he did it all: music, painting, fashion, snowboarding, skateboarding. Watching him showed me that being an artist doesn’t have to mean just one thing. ”
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