Everybody’s got a first song. Alyssa Mongiovi’s earliest might just be a cover—“Amazing Grace,” way back in 2014. If you blinked and missed it, don’t worry. Only the diehards seem to have that saved on a playlist buried under years of spilled coffee and bad passwords. It was sweet, careful, maybe a little shy, but that’s not where her story ends.
Fast-forward a decade and Alyssa’s traded hushed hymns for scorched-earth honesty. She’s dropped the new single “Poet” and, for anyone who likes their music ragged, heartbroke, and sung at full volume, this is it.
Ask anyone who’s caught her since 2019—back when the track “Silence” first popped onto the streaming radar—and you’ll hear it: Mongiovi doesn’t coast. She dives in, chews through the lyrics, stands up on stage like the room’s hers.
She’ll tell you the stories, too. Italian-American, mixed-race, raised in Mount Dora, Florida, with a father who served in the military. Those early years shaped her outlook—and that mix comes through in her music: the self-taught guitar, the nights at jazz radio, the need to write about life just to make sense of it.
The first verse hits you like a late-night phone call from someone you actually wanted to hear from. She lays it out—no swooning, no Hollywood scripts—“You wanted to write a play / I never asked for a part.” No need for someone else’s story – she’s finally archiving her own.
Here’s how it happened: Alyssa, stuck in a suit and tie at a job that looked pretty on paper but felt like a slow fade. She starts gigging again, joins a band, and suddenly the songs pour out like lost letters. She links up with producer Alex Houton, pushes past the doubt, and turns all those quiet sketches into stage-ready stories.
You listen and you get the sense she’s survived something—with humor, with spit, with enough leftover energy to fill a cheap room and make it special.
If you’re local? Don’t just stream it. August 29 at The Black Sheep, she’s there. August 30 is for the lifers at Triple Nickel Tavern, and September 4 she’s barreling into Denver’s Battle of the Bands. Show up. Scream along. Or just stand in the back and nod when she hits that chorus and lets all the approval-seeking ghosts melt into the amps.
There’s an EP in the works. No promises what it’ll sound like, but it’s coming from the same hands that once played “Amazing Grace” and later penned songs just to keep the lights on.
So, yeah, give “Poet” a spin—maybe on the drive home, maybe in some midnight kitchen dance you don’t tell anyone about. Alyssa Mongiovi’s been here a while. Plenty noticed, plenty didn’t. But she isn’t waiting for anyone’s permission, and after this track hits, you probably won’t either.
Stay connected with Alyssa Mongiovi:
https://alyssamongiovi.com
https://www.facebook.com/AlyssaMMongiovi
https://www.instagram.com/alyssa.mongiovi
For tickets to upcoming shows, go to: https://alyssamongiovi.com/shows
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