“It wasn’t until I gained enough confidence in myself that I even decided to start releasing stuff and letting people hear it and get even more serious about it.”Īfter college, Dodgr’s first priority was financial stability, something that couldn’t be guaranteed from a music career. “ I would make it for myself and maybe let a friend or two hear it,” she says. That final year of college, when she began going by Dodgr, she finally felt comfortable sharing her work with the public. She spent her college years balancing her studies with work, so music was further sidelined in her life. Her passion for writing soon translated to pursuing a journalism degree (before tacking on a Bones-inspired physical anthropology degree in her final year). ![]() ![]() Still, singing and rapping were part of her private world, and she would write songs in private. “It wasn’t even until a couple years ago that my mom really supported this and heard my voice and thought it was beautiful.” “ School was really pushed on me, and I didn’t have that many people who believed in my voice. Even though she loved to sing and write songs, she thought she was better suited for a career as a doctor or maybe a music journalist. Dodgr danced from age five through 13 and was an omnivorous listener, consuming everything from Missy Elliott to Nickelback. Until then, music had existed in the background of her life. The year Chenevert took on the name Dodgr was transformative in other ways, too: It’s also when she began getting serious about making music while wrapping up her undergrad degree in anthropology at Humboldt State University in Northern, California. ![]() “I decided I was just gonna go for it,” she says, calling from Portland, Oregon, where she’s staying with her girlfriend. So around 2010, she started calling herself “Dodgr,” in tribute to Oliver Twist and her hometown L.A. Alana Chenevert never really liked her given name.
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