Delta Music Institute student Jessica Wishard, known musically as Jessica Faith, recently had the chance to shoot a music video for her song \u201cWithout a Fight\u201d as one of three winners of the 2014 GRAMMY\u00ae Amplifier Center Stage contest.<\/p>\n
Contest winners had to choose between a recording session with a leading GRAMMY producer; an opening act performance slot on a major tour or music festival; or a professionally produced music video.<\/p>\n
To view Faith\u2019s official video, visit http:\/\/youtu.be\/d3Xx8Ti3oxU.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know what I expected but I knew what I hoped for,\u201d said Faith. \u201cIt was all that and better.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Without a Fight” is a song about determination and defiance rather than defeat.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s about walking away from an uncomfortable situation, not with your shoulders hunched but your head held high,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
On the video set, Faith experienced things she was not accustomed to, as people tended to her smallest needs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was weird \u2014 I was being treated like I was somebody,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Although she was in her shining moment, Faith admitted that it was intimidating to walk into a room with a bunch of professionals, adding that it was uncomfortable to try on countless outfits just to fit Jessica Faith\u2019s image.<\/p>\n
Director Matt Singleton and Executive Producer George Flanigen worked on the production in Nashville, Tenn. A band supported the young singer while she was filmed playing the piano.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey let me have the piano at first as a security blanket, or a \u2018wubbie\u2019 as George Flanigen called it,\u201d she said. \u201cThen we moved on to the scenes where I did more acting.\u201d<\/p>\n
The DMI student admitted that her favorite part of the experience was seeing everything come to life on set.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was amazing to see how much care goes into the little details,\u201d she said. \u201cThe set designer took care of a range of things from pillows on the couch to a passport and faked plane ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n
Faith said she ultimately learned a lot about the music business and herself.<\/p>\n
She currently performs at a variety of venues as a client of the student-run Fighting Okra Talent Agency and plans to record and release an album this year.<\/p>\n
Learn more about Faith at https:\/\/jessicafaithmusic.wordpress.com\/<\/a> and the Delta Music Institute at https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/dmi-delta-music-institute-homepage\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Delta Music Institute student Jessica Wishard, known musically as Jessica Faith, recently had the chance to shoot a music video for her song \u201cWithout a Fight\u201d as one of three…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":58504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,38,246],"tags":[1416,220,1430,1083,464],"class_list":["post-62687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-of-arts-and-sciences","category-delta-music-institute","category-students","tag-delta-music-institute","tag-dmi","tag-grammy","tag-grammy-amplifier-center-stage","tag-students-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62688,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62687\/revisions\/62688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}