Christina Frith had some very famous characters to hang out with as a child. Grover, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Kermit the Frog! Miss Piggy!

Her father Michael was the one of the creators of the wildly, enduringly popular Muppets of Sesame Street.

How good was that?

"I feel very gifted to have such a creative father. It was amazing really, because the only world I knew was a world that looked for beauty and goodness in everything."

Born in New York to Bermudian parents, young Christina grew up in an artistic world.

"Miss Piggy's costume designer designed my wedding dress", she shares gleefully. "I was really blessed."

So it is no surprise that she is now a singer-songwriter and musician and has a new album coming out.

"Who influenced me? We had a very rich musical tradition growing up.

"I'll tell you who I was moved by. The Beatles, Motown; we just had a little bit of everything. But the people who influenced me most? Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Simon and Garfunkel, when I was older, believe it or not Donna Summers. Michael Jackson. My first crush on a celebrity was Michael Jackson."

She did meet George Harrison and David Bowie, among the myriad of celebrities her parents brought her in contact with

"And Joe Raposo. I was only little when I met him, so all I remember is goodness. Goodness and music. He died so young. He wrote wonderful children's songs."

When she was 12, she was given a guitar and taught three chords by her aunt Lexi Outerbridge.

"That was the beginning of my musical life. I took those three chords and started writing songs," she said.

"The voice is a gift from God. God is very big in my life.

"The poetry is born from an honest place in my heart.

"Usually the songs are born after some challenge or deep life pain. And life is full of that. I feel the songs are a metaphor for some of the challenges that are going on. Each song surprises me."

Now, of course, Christina is a long way from just three chords. The chords she uses, their voicing and sequences are extremely sophisticated. Yet, she admits to never having had a guitar lesson.

"Many of the chords I play I just make up and use without even knowing the names of them. But I am very attuned to harmony."

Speaking about her process of composition she says: "Usually I have a wave of inspiration. It usually follows a crisis or a challenge or some upset. But it's very organic; I 'feel' a song coming through. I'll sit down with my guitar and play some chords, and at least a few words will be born with those chords".

She quotes from a recently composed lyric:

"A lonely man in so much pain, and there's no where left to hide..."

She speaks about existential loneliness.

"Each person has to walk their path alone. All these things come from an honest place in me.

"I'm not good at writing conceptual songs." she says, adding she could work collaboratively with another to meet a producer's request.

"But the collaborative process is quite different, from my solo process. For me that (solo) is very much digging down into my heart and soul to hear what's going on, and then convey that through song and music. And in a connected way. Not that I'd share a song because I wanted you to know that about me, I would sing it to you because I understand that we all share these feelings.

"I understand that by sharing the deeper parts of my self, you not only know me better, you're able to touch a place in yourself. Art does that. That's true."

She believes that the arts are a way for us to connect with each other "on a profound . invisible. emotional visceral level.,without necessarily being able to articulate what that connection is. We feel it on a deep level. It feels good and right end meaningful.

"We are a breath away from being profoundly connected (in Bermuda). Because I remember growing up feeling so much love in the people that I see nowhere else in the world.

"It feels like … if we don't take a moment to look at each other and breathe deeper, we are in the next five years going to lose Bermuda to this wave of materialism, like so many other places. We'd miss why we're really here and how we are connected to each other, accompanying each other on our souls' journey to becoming wonderful contributing people on this planet."

She's a Bahai, having called herself Buddhist, Jewish, and Christian.

"I love dance. It's a huge part of my life. I've been practicing ecstatic interpretive movement for 25 years and it goes hand in hand with my music.

About material success: "It's part of the world we live in, and can sustain us; can provide a platform to share meaningful things with people.

She has a new album recorded in California about to be released.

It should be quite a piece of work.