Raven Baksh was the kind of girl who dreamed of being a rock star, but didn’t know quite how to get there.As a teenager she enjoyed both acting and playing music as a hobby, then once she was accepted into the Berklee College of Music her passion took a serious turn.She said: “Before I went to Berklee I didn’t consider myself a musician, but now I see myself as that and I know where I want to take it and actually have a direction now.”The 21-year-old has been singing and playing the guitar at a host of events and venues over the summer.Her dream is to eventually have hundreds or thousands of fans listening to her music, although she doesn’t want the negative attention that can sometimes come with fame.“I want to perform and be successful, sell out shows and be on the radio and have everyone buy my records,” she said.“I want to be a well respected musician that everyone knows about, like Adele. I want people to listen to my music, but not care about who I date or what I am wearing or what I say.”She said attending a well-known music college, where she studies drumming, has really catapulted her closer to that goal.Before she never wrote her own songs, but after taking a writing course at school she has begun to experiment more and has written four original songs of her own.An additional one is currently in the production phase and needs to get mixed and mastered in the studio, she said.Although Ms Baksh said she has never been in love and doesn’t know how to write about that topic, the songstress has written a song about the gang violence on the Island and an inspirational tune about living your own life and becoming who you want to be.She has also collaborated with local artists like rapper KASE.The aspiring artist has been playing the drums since she was nine or ten and picked up the guitar after learning from her grandfather.She said she was inspired by living in a music-loving family.“My parents were really young, so growing up they would play everything from No Doubt to Public Enemy and Spin Doctors, a lot of stuff that was popular in the 90s, so we grew up with that kind of stuff.”To this day, she has developed an eclectic taste in music — and admitted she sings every genre, except country.“I try to mix in everything. I guess you could say I’m a little scatter-brained when it comes to what I want my sound to be like, it’s a cross between Tracey Chapman, Amy Winehouse and Justin Timberlake maybe,” she said.For her music is therapeutic and a form of release.“I get anxious and nervous about things sometimes, but when I play music I feel like it’s one of the only things I am really good at and one of the only things I know I’m really keen to know more about,” she said. “When I am playing I am in the zone and everything else just fades into the background.”She admitted there was a lot of great talent in Bermuda and while she loves working with the young talent here, she also wants to try her luck in the big city.“I can’t really imagine going very far if I stay here, so I have been planning to move to New York to perform and see if I can get a job in the industry and just network,” she said.“I have a lot of friends already out there from Berklee and I just think it’s good to be in that element.”This fall Ms Baksh is going into her final year of study. For the next few weeks she can be found performing at Tribe Road Kitchen on Fridays from 6.30pm until 9.30pm.She is also known to perform at the Open Mic Nights at Chewstick on Sunday evenings, as well as Hog Penny on some Wednesdays and Pickled Onion occasionally on Tuesdays.To listen to her music, visit https://soundcloud.com/ravenyasmin or visit www.facebook.com/RavenMuzic.