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Still cutting her teeth, with only three years in the recording industry, Mosca, now a resident of Bedford, New York, has already enjoyed a measure of success. Upon relase, her first single, "Not Enough," quickly broke into the Top Ten of the Adult Contemporary music charts, and it spent 5 months in the Top Forty. Her second relase, a rendition of the Spinners "I'll Be Around," exceeded even the success of her first, reaching Number 7 on the AC charts, and it continues to be played on radio stations all around the country, according to her Web site.
Now Mosca is planning a trip down to Nashville, where she will put the finishing touches on what is to become her first full-length studio release. Already, the in-the-works album has garnered attention from a few major labels, who could potentially take over marketing and distribution on the eventual release, according to Mosca.
In terms of style, Mosca says the finished album will reflect her eclectic musical tastes, a genre-busting blend of the blues, country, pop and rock. Listeners have compared Mosca's music to Bonnie Raitt and Shania Twain, and Mosca cites Annie Lennox as one of her principal musical inspirations.
Though Mosca says the album won't have a theme per se, many of the songs are about strong women, and she says she especially "likes songs that have a message of some sort, that can help people, or inspire people, or make them feel good about themselves, help them hang on through a bad time."
In fact, music's capacity for healing likely played a part in Mosca's choosing to try her hand at a recording career, a decision she made after her father passed away some years ago. The elder Mosca had been an amateur singer, but he never pursued music as a career. Still smarting from the loss of her father, Mosca realized that "it seemed like the time to follow your dream. That seemed to be the turning point for me, when I starting studying and writing my own shows and taking voice lessons," Mosca said.
So Mosca did some off broadway shows, and she wrote and acted in a series of one-woman musical performances. That led to the current endeavor, which has Mosca teaming up with her voice teacher, Franni Burke, to write and lay down the tracks that will soon make up her first full-length album. Mosca hopes a tour - and a fulfilling, career in creativity - will follow.
When you finish a song, "it's very gratifiying. It's wonderful. And it's exciting to hear people from Japan and Italy talking about my songs and writing me letters. The music is getting out there," Mosca said.
