sami.the.great, singer, Nothing Left to See

sami.the.great lowers her musical standards to sing for mr.media!

There is a moment in every artist’s life when her desire to create crystallizes; the evolving elements of inspiration and experience coalesce into a unified artistic purpose. It happens to anyone ever driven to create for a living, but rarely – or perhaps never – does that moment involve John Mayer.

Yes, Sami Akbari, known musically as sami.the.great, became conscious of her desire to pursue music thanks to an encounter with John Mayer. It wasn’t his music or his overwhelming capacity for humility, but was more about a transitory experience that opened Sami’s eyes to what she could ultimately do with her powerhouse singing and songwriting. While in college in Roanoke, Virginia, Sami was on a committee of students that arranged for bands to play at the school, and the second act they brought was John Mayer.

“This is an embarrassing story,” Sami says. “It was right before he became famous. It was about two or three weeks before his first video came out, and he was already on tour and had some recognition. I actually sat on his tour bus and sang with him. After they left I felt a huge void, and I decided to start writing music because I felt so connected to that whole experience.”

Sami released a new EP, Nothing Left to See, which features five songs she has written over the past six years of her career and a cover of Sting’s “Roxanne.”

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