"Well, I'm a Virgo, need I say more?" musician Lynn Carey Saylor jokes, "I am definitely a typical one in terms of being a perfectionist and always have been."

Lynn is a BMI affiliated singer, songwriter, guitarist, founder of the website www.guitargirls.com, and co-owner of the Los Angeles based commercial recording studio Skip Saylor Recording. Skip Saylor Recording is known for mixing and/or recording work for such platinum selling artists as Gun n' Roses, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Boys II Men, Snoop Dogg, Foo Fighters, k.d. lang, DJ Quik, 2Pac, Elton John, Pink and many others.

"I am definitely a typical one in terms of being a perfectionist and always have been."

Amidst all these accomplishments, Lynn Carey Saylor is now preparing for the release of her full length record, which is in pre-sale now and will start shipping at the beginning of August. Ten of the eleven songs on her CD are written entirely by her, both words and music. "I elected to do one cover tune, Pat Benatar's We Belong, but that was primarily for the reason that besides always having loved the song, I personally know the songwriters of it, and one of them has sadly been stricken with the devastating illness ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). I wanted to pay tribute to him and his songwriting partner on the song, both of whom I greatly admire and respect."

Not to mention, this remake and Lynn's original song, If We Believe, feature Brian May, guitarist of the legendary group Queen. "He is a dream to work with - super nice and, of course, super talented, as we all know," Lynn said, "I'm very lucky to know him and been able to have the great opportunity to work with him. Queen fans, I'd also like to mention, are just the most wonderful fans, and quite a few of them have discovered me due to my association with Brian. I feel blessed and honored to have the association with him that I do."

Lynn Carey Saylor was born in San Diego, but when she was two, her family moved to Las Vegas where she grew up. There, she attended high school and became a graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "I moved to L.A. for the sole purpose of furthering my music career," she explains, "I probably would have stayed in Vegas if I wasn't in music. Almost all of the people I grew up with who were also musicians that made the Vegas to L.A. leap about when I did have since moved back to Vegas. The housing is much cheaper for one thing and if you don't become successful, it's easy to become swallowed up here. There are a lot of things to do in LA, though, so I like being here at times. I don't like the traffic, general congestion here and smog - well, who does? There's a price for being here, definitely."

From the time she was in grade school, Lynn has always been a hardworking perfectionist. "Sometimes it's a good trait, as I have high attention for detail, but on the flip side of that, it can make you neurotic and limits the amount of things you can get done in life," she said, "I'm working on trying to find balance between doing good work and knowing when to let go. Beyond that, I'd say that I am an interesting mix of a very outgoing person and a somewhat introverted one. I was an only child until I was nine years old, so I learned to like my own company and spend a lot of time alone...But when I do decide to go out or I'm in public in any way, I'm very social and outgoing and a people person. People take to me very quickly and I am described by others as someone who is very good at making a positive first impression on people when I meet them."

As a songwriter, first and foremost, Lynn Carey Saylor's many other talents just seemed to fall in place. "Well, I certainly played instruments before I started to sing. The singing came after my decision to start writing songs in my teens. Someone had to sing them, after all, so it might as well be me, I figured. Songwriting came more easily to me than singing did, without question. I always had a natural sense of melody and how to construct a song and write a lyric, but I had to focus fairly diligently on learning the fundamentals of singing - breath control, singing in pitch in the studio and things like that. There was a definite learning curve about it all and some frustration that came with it in the early days, unlike my writing, which seems to just kind of flow out of me from the beginning." It's hard to believe that someone with such an amazing voice was once frustrated learning to sing, but you can only imagine how much she's improved after violin, piano, and guitar lessons, a college minor of music, and attending Dick Grove School of Music in Van Nuys.

Lynn has come a long way, constantly pushing to persue what she loves. "Singing is very cathartic," Lynn said, "I have soothed my own pain by singing lyrics that I've written which mean something to me and I'm very pleased when someone tells me they love my voice, because I know how hard I worked on it from where I started from. It's a certain kind of triumph for me to be considered a good singer, especially since I was shot down in the studio on my very first recording I ever made to sing a song I had written. I was only about 16 and didn't have a clue about how to sing in a recording studio having never done it before. The owner of this studio (still in operation today) who was also the recording engineer at the time, for some reason felt the need to criticize my performance and give me his opinion that he didn't think I "had it" to be a singer. I was devastated and it affected me for a very long time afterwards. It was a terrible thing to do to someone who was there trying out something new for the very first time and paying him to help me. I never, ever forgot that and I may just send him a copy of my CD to show him he was wrong! Maybe I should also include a thank you note with the CD. I think I used his negative words as fuel to never quit and to just keep continuing to try and get better and better and, you know, it worked.

When Lynn Carey Saylor isn't too occupied with her music, she enjoys going to movies, ice skating, and roller blading. Although not a huge fan of exercising, she manages to get quite a workout running around with her two young dogs. "The way I keep my weight in check for the most part, I think, is that I simply refuse to ever buy a pair of pants bigger than a size 3," she explained, "That's what I wear and if the 3's start getting too tight, I know it's time to watch what I'm eating for a bit."

Although Lynn is a great singer, she always puts her songwriting first and writes songs for other artists as well as herself. She mostly writes in the genres of Pop, Rock, and Country, and she's written for both male and female artists. Right now she claims that her long term goal is to simply be a hit songwriter, whether she's the artist of the songs that become known or not.

Lynn Carey Saylor is an extraordinary artist who has come an extremely long way. Be sure to check her out at her website, www.lynncareysaylor.com and myspace.com/lynncareysaylor, and watch for her full length record coming out this month! "I am very proud of the work I've done on it and will be focused on getting the word out about that," she said, "It will always be available for purchase from my website, and hopefully many other places as well, as we will be aggressively seeking to line up distributors for it on a worldwide level. I should be traveling extensively over the next year to promote it, tour, etc., both in the U.S. and outside of it, primarily over in Europe, I imagine. I would like to meet as many of my fans as possible. I have been blessed with many lovely fans on the Internet and now I'm ready to take this record out into the real world and come see them!"