Career
Though not her primary focus, she is also a visual artist who creates poster-size pastel drawings of abstract emotive female faces. Musical Career In May 2014, Summer XO ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to release a six-song European Parliament, titled, "Hello World." This European Parliament is being released as individual singles, beginning June 2015. The first single to be released was, "That One Thing." Half the songs were produced by producer Mikal Blue, who is best known for his work on Colbie Caillat"s "Coco (album)."
Before renaming herself and securing the United States Trademark for Summer XO in 2013, she performed as and held the trademark for the name "Summer."
In June 2013, she released the song "Invented The Word", which was accompanied by an official music video.
lieutenant was produced by Henry Strange and Uri Djemal.
In August, 2012, Summer digitally released a cover version of the Cyndi Lauper song, True Colors (song), produced by Henry Strange and Jess Stroup. Summer released the album Timing And Lighting on LossLess Records in September, 2008.
lieutenant was produced by Henry Strange, with the exception of the song, "Messed Up," which was produced by Jess Stroup. In October, 2006, Summer was recognized as one of the “Top Ten Songwriters of 2006” by the Portland Songwriting Association.
Summer XO exclusively plays handmade Wechter brand acoustic guitars that have a visually unique double cutaway body style.
She owns three Wechter Pathmaker Elite series. She often performs with all three on stage because of her use of different guitar tunings. Visual Art Since 2005, Summer XO has been regularly continuing her work on a series of pastel drawings of abstract female faces that depict a clear emotion.
She sells them online through her online store/.
Due to the subject matter, Summer XO refers to the pieces in this series as "The Girls." She also often displays her drawings on stage during music performances.