Nataly Dawn’s non-religious awakening
By:Tom Lanham | 01/29/13 9:08 PM
Special to The SF Examiner
While getting her master’s degree in French literature at Stanford University four years ago, Nataly Dawn received an interesting piece of advice from a professor.
The charismatic Pomplamoose vocalist took the words to heart when conceiving her new solo album, “How I Knew Her.”
“He told me that thought happens through writing, and that you don’t actually finish a thought until you get it onto paper,” says Dawn, who opens for Ben Folds Five at the Warfield on Thursday. “I think there’s a lot of truth to that — it’s really important to write, to process things. I got a lot of stuff out of my system by writing this record.”
True enough. Dawn and her longtime beau, Jack Conte, might have made an iTunes-enabled career out of posting marshmallow-fluffy “video songs,” often playful covers, for Pomplamoose’s 300,000-plus YouTube subscribers.
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