Clara ✦ Quinn

Clara Quinn is the artist persona and storyteller created by songwriter and producer Clare as a way of bringing her music, stories and imagination to life.

Behind Clara is Clare, who has been writing songs and stories since she was fourteen. Sitting in a classroom with too many thoughts spiralling through her mind and nowhere safe to voice them, she opened a notebook and began writing. What started as a private way of processing thoughts and emotions became something much bigger: a lifelong way of making sense of people, love, loss and everything that can be difficult to say out loud.

The name Clara Quinn carries a little piece of Clare within it. Clara is a play on her birth name, Clare, while Quinn is her mother’s maiden name — a family name with a personal connection. Together, they form an identity that feels familiar yet distinct, allowing Clare to share her music and stories while keeping some privacy for herself. Some songs come from deeply personal places, touching on experiences and emotions that aren’t always easy to share openly. Clara gives Clare the space to tell those stories honestly without having to put every part of her personal life in the spotlight.

Clara isn’t a separate person with a life or story of her own. She is an extension of Clare — a way for her to express herself, connect with listeners and bring her creative world to life. Through Clara, Clare can share her words, feelings and imagination while maintaining a little distance between her music and her private life.

One thing Clare wants you to know from the beginning: the face behind Clara is hers.

The photographs used for Clara’s imagery are real photographs of Clare herself. They capture the person behind the name, with styling and editing used to reflect the atmosphere of the music and the world she has created. The woman you see is Clare — not a fictional person being portrayed by someone else.

Every part of the music begins with Clare. She writes the lyrics and melodies, develops the songs, produces the music and sings the vocal performances herself. Using recording and production software, she shapes and refines her own vocals to create the sound she hears in her head — the voice of Clara Quinn.

Every Clara Quinn song begins with something human: a memory, a truth, a feeling, a question, a moment of heartbreak or something that simply refuses to be forgotten.

Her music explores love, heartbreak, anxiety, longing, uncertainty, hope and all the complicated spaces in between. The songwriting is intimate and diary-like, drawing on the kinds of thoughts and feelings that can be difficult to put into words.

Clara isn’t simply there to sing a song. She is there to step inside it. To become part of the story. To make you wonder what happened before the song began — and what happens after it ends.

At the heart of Clara’s world is a fascination with connection and the vastness of existence — the stars, the moon, the endlessness beyond us, and the strange contrast between how enormous the universe is and how very small one person can feel within it.

Perhaps that’s why her stories so often come back to connection.

Because somewhere beneath all the distance, uncertainty and different paths we take, we’re all looking up at the same stars.

And Clara is here to tell the stories that happen underneath them. ✦