Alyssa Barron hits all the notes
Ballads to blues, rock and cabaret Tuning in to local singer-songwriter Alyssa Barron by Bondo Wyszpolski Alyssa Barron has been rolling out new songs in advance of an album that may, the singer-songwriter says, be released in the spring. But who is Alyssa Barron, and why should we care about her and her music? Well, let’s start at the beginning. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Barron “always knew I wanted to go into the arts, and in the winter of ‘99 we (she and her parents) moved to the South Bay. My dad was certain that we would move back, so he did the responsible thing and kept his job in Tucson. We had a life to go back to if we decided to, but we knew that we were coming out here for good. We wanted to avoid the Valley because it was too much like Tucson. We landed in Redondo Beach. It was gorgeous, going from the desert, with the ocean so close by. “I had an agent when I first moved out,” Barron says, which led to some parts in theater and television. “I thought I was going to go to college, but I had the opportunity to audition for Julliard and the Guildford School of Acting in England. So I auditioned for both and got into GSA, which at the time was the third best…
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