Photo by Manon Macasaet
Sabrina Fuentes, the front woman for Pretty Sick, has always known she would be doing exactly this. It is rare to know what you are meant to be doing from such a young age, but when you do, you almost have no choice but to follow that path. It’s a compulsion, an obsession and, of course a passion. Sabrina Fuentes has been performing live since she was a teenager, and though she admits to being nervous at that time, she also says that music has always been something that came easily to her. She doesn’t say that in a bragging or conceited way, she says this in the way of someone who has been working at something they love for so long that it has become as much a part of them as the nose on their face.
Was Allen Street written recently or is this one of those songs you wrote when you were thirteen? It’s impossible to tell sometimes because they are all so compelling and unique.
It was kind of written in two parts. It was written first when I was fifteen or sixteen, and I didn’t really like it that much but I brought it to Wade (Oates) when we started playing together at eighteen and we shopped it. He wrote the chorus for it – I originally didn’t have a chorus, it was more a stream of consciousness, and he said it would be cool if we could put it into a more structured format. We started playing it live and it became a crowd favorite.
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