#22 Adalia Tara, singer/songwriter

The first song that Adalia Tara remembers hearing was John Lennon's Imagine when she was four. She has always been drawn to meaningful music since dancing with her family as a young child. Songwriting is the reason she does music, because of the powerful message music can bring. "Music has a magical quality to bring people together," she says, and that performing music is "total exchange, where we can recognize our common humanity; it is a tool for learning empathy." Her new album is "Why Wait."