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8 Spring 2026 • sai-national.org Sister Spotlight By Paula Espinosa S inger-songwriter Lexi Shroll now lives in Nashville, Tennessee to pursue her dreams of becoming a musician, frequently playing gigs with her staple black star-studded acoustic guitar and blonde fringe hair. She laughs easily and seems to brighten any room she walks into, something made even more obvious when she sings. Her candid lyrics and stripped-down songs reflect a truthful and sincere personality; when you listen to Lexi sing, you're getting a glimpse of the real "her." Now a Rollins College alum, Lexi graduated in May 2024 with a Bachelors in Music and a Creative Writing Minor. I got the chance to chat with Lexi about all things "her" and her music. I started her off with the question people always ask her: Are you planning on releasing any of your songs soon? "Yes, I am! I'm currently working with a studio, so I'm really excited. I've just had a lot of bad luck when it comes to recording." She went on to share how she had worked with several audio techs, and something was always off, but Lexi ended up working with the husband of a family friend who does audio engineering. They just got through some of her final music, so she's planning on releasing music in the spring. Lexi has a few recordings of her songs on her website, and I wanted to know how she would categorize her current songs to be. "I'd say I'm country-ish. I have some songs that are kind of country-rock, country-pop, but also stuff that's like folksy, singer-songwriter, Americana, so it's those blends." She admitted that she's tried to write in other styles, but what innately comes out of her is that folksy, country genre. From her time at Rollins, I knew Lexi was from the small town of Oviedo, Florida, not too far from the Winter Park campus. She'd often talked about the town that inspired her stories. Her first play, Nowheresville, is based off the very town, so I asked if growing up there had influenced her sound at all. "Oviedo was a big influence in my writing, but it has more to do with the people there. It wasn't a big musical town, but my parents both really liked coffee house music—that acoustic style—so I always heard artists that were really stripped down and raw. When I went to start writing songs, that's where I pulled from." She described how growing up there made her a modern, empathetic songwriter; what Lexi writes about is very real. "It's hard to escape growing up in a small town and not having it influence anything you do. The songs I write are relatable on a micro and macro scale because I grew up in that environment of everyone knowing everyone." I asked Lexi what her dream venue was, if she could perform anywhere in the world. "Oh, a huge dream venue is Madison Square Garden, but I have a smaller goal right now. There's a songwriting stage in Nashville called The Listening Room. I really wanna play there. All the songwriters that perform J u s t A G i r l a n d H e r G u i ta r Lexi Shroll Talks Music in Nashville

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