Their names are Cirby, Carli and Celbi, all with the hard “C” sound, and they’re the siblings that make up the country trio, Sister C.
Discovered on the second season of the Fox network series, The X-Factor, the Texas natives released a five-song EP, Demo Sessions, produced by country star Lee Brice and songwriter Jon Stone, earlier this year. In an effort to get their new music out to the masses, because “studio time is money,” the real-life sisters created a video series called The Blue Room Sessions, straight from their own home.
“We had so much new material that we wanted to get out to everybody and we have this really cool room, when we bought this house, that we didn’t know what to do with because it didn’t have a closet,” Celbi, the youngest of the three sisters, tells Nash Country Daily about creating the series. “So we found this really cool blue color in this room [on Pinterest] and it had a fireplace and it looked exactly like our room, basically. We started painting and hung some instruments on a wall and began doing some covers in [the Blue Room] and videotaped it. We finally were just like maybe we should make this a series and call it the Blue Room. Instead of doing covers we can put out all of our new songs, that we had just written, and get everybody’s feedback.
Nash Country Daily has the exclusive premiere of Sister C singing “Fabulously Broke,” a song about being on a budget but still being able to look great by purchasing name brand products for a bargain price. Co-written by the sisters —Cirby, Carli, Celbi— and Emily Reid, the song was inspired by a conversation they had about shopping for clothes.
Tips from Celbi for shopping on a budget:
1. If you have to have this one thing—if you wait a couple of weeks, it’s going to be on the sale rack. I tell myself to just leave and I’ll eventually forget about it and I’ll go back and be like “Wow, it’s 50 percent off.”
2. Self control is definitely a big bear.
3. Shop at TJ Maxx, you get some good stuff there—and obviously Target.
4. Whenever I online shop, which is all the time, I go immediately to the sale tab. I don’t even look at the newly released stuff. You’re still getting the good stuff but it’s just marked down because it’s been on there for a while.
“I think we were surprisingly all dressed up kind of cute for our write, which is rare because we are all slouches when it comes to that,” Celbi reveals about he song writing process.”We were meeting Emily [Reid, co-writer of “Fabulously Broke”] for the first time and she was like ‘Oh my gosh, where did you all get your clothes?’ She was dressed up really cute and we were talking about all the places we get them, like the sales rack. I’m like ‘I’m the bargain shopper, I go to TJ Maxx and find the name brands on the sales rack.’ Someone said, ‘I’m pretty much just fabulously broke,’ I don’t remember who said that, but somebody was talking and they were like, ‘Yeah, fabulously broke, living the life,’ and we were all like, ‘That’s it, fabulously broke!'”
The sisters are performing around the country and gearing up for a tour of their own. “We are starting to get a lot more shows on the books,” reveals Celbi. “You’ll probably find us in Nashville for some shows and we might be traveling to Texas and we are going to be in Chicago next week for the Windy City Smokeout.” Be sure and catch the ladies on tour.
Watch Sister C’s Blue Room Session as they perform “Fabulously Broke” during this exclusive premiere:
Sister C photo courtesy PFA Media
