People take all sorts of routes to becoming recording artists, but few have followed the path that brought Kristi Knupp to the studio.
A longtime music photographer whose work has appeared in numerous publications over the past 12 years — including Xpress — Knupp released her debut album, Long Overdue, in January under the moniker Pretty Little Saturday. It’s the culmination of a lifetime of writing, dating back to her middle school days when an English teacher encouraged her to stick with the craft. That pursuit resulted in Knupp reading one of her poems in front of the student body at her high school graduation, though music was also in the mix during that time.
“I was in a few bands, reading books on songwriting and trying to emulate the artists I loved at the time — Sublime, No Doubt, Green Day, Paramore, etc.,” Knupp says. “Writing has always been how I process what’s happening in my life. I just didn’t always know how to bring the words, the music and my voice together into one cohesive expression until more recently.”…