Rumer On PBS

Rumer performed "A House Is Not A Home" in front of President Obama for Burt Bacharach & Hal David: The Library Of Congress Gershwin Prize For Popular Song In Performance which aired on PBS:

The New Classic: Our Interview With Rumer

Rumer's Seasons Of My Soul is currently a Top 10 album on iTunes and with good reason: she's an extremely talented singer-songwriter whose sound harkens back to the music coming from your family's station wagon's AM Radio in the '70s. She was nice enough to chat with us about hitting #1 on iTunes, her US tour, her influences, her contemporaries, and Katy Perry.

Your album, Seasons Of My Soul, was finally released in the US on January 24th where it soon went to #1 on iTunes.
I know. Isn't it crazy?

How's your week been?
I got a little bit sick early in the week. I had to go see an ear, nose, and throat surgeon because I had problems with my voice and it just turns out that the altitude and everything was just making me really dry. So I was a little bit down in the dumps and then I went to Target and Ian, my manager, said, "Oh no. Your CD's not in the supermarket." I was like, "Oh why?" And he said, "Because it's just on Amazon." And I was like, "Oh."

So I was just a little bit down. I wasn't feeling very well. I couldn't buy my CD in the supermarket. We were playing to thirty, forty people every night and thinking this was like a mountain. And then the next day, for [reaching #1 on iTunes] to happen, was just massively encouraging.

Given your success in the UK, were you surprised to see your album hit #1 on the iTunes chart?
I was. Very surprised. To me, it's still like a niche album, like a jazz album.

You're currently in the middle of a short tour in the US. How's that going?
Oh, it's great. I love it. I love meeting people. I love it because I get to meet everyone after the shows, talk to every single person.