asked Chrissy a few questions about her history with music and what it’s like to be the only girl in the band!
Chrissy Costanza comes from a family of music lovers. Though her parents don’t play any instruments or sing, they have always encouraged their kids to hone their musical skills.
“My brother (he’s only 10) plays drums now,” Chrissy said, “so between me singing (very loudly) 24/7, he also is always blasting music through a speaker and drumming along to it so my house usually always has music going on somewhere.”
Chrissy joined Against the Current early in the summer of 2011. Chrissy met bandmates Will, Jeremy, and Dan through one of her best friends. They needed a singer and Chrissy fit the bill.
“I had never really been in a band before but had dreams of being in one,” Chrissy said.
Months later, the band’s bassist Joe joined, completing the group as we know it today.
“Our first year as a band we really didn’t do much,” she said. “Just wrote music, practiced, hung out and dreamt big dreams.
Their channel didn’t get much attention until they released their first single, “Thinking.” A collaboration with YouTube talent Alex Goot on a cover of “Good Time” by Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen really got the ball rolling. That was in July of 2012.
We asked Chrissy what it’s like being the only girl in Against the Current.
“It’s actually not that difficult at all,” she said, “I’ve always had more guy friends than girl friends anyways. They’re also really good to me, they’re like my brothers so I never feel weird about being the only girl.”
She added that she barely notices the difference sometimes.
“The guys are kind of girls sometimes,” Chrissy said. She said that Will takes hour-long showers and a long time to get ready, and than Dan is super particular about his hair.
“Even when I take a while to get ready, I’m still usually not he last one finished,” she said.