For twenty-two year old Alison Sudol, the last few months have been huge. The young musician, who also represents the one member of her performing name, A Fine Frenzy, is currently on tour through parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Minnesota and Canada.

The artist has been experiencing a love-affair with words since she began reading the fantasy fiction of C.S. Lewis, E.B. White, Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens at the age of 5 - Now, becoming her own passionate author of music, Sudol has risen to the top of music billboards in the U.S. Sudol, a Los Angeles native, taught herself to play the piano as a young girl and immersed herself in music such as British bands, Aqualung, Radiohead, Coldplay and Keane, as well as the Icelandic music of Bjork and Sigur Ros. Now, with her beautiful, melodramatic voice, Sudol has captured the hearts of millions under her performing name, A Fine Frenzy, and her first hit single “Almost Lover” from the 2007 album “One Cell In the Sea.”

In an Aug. 2007 interview with Aced Magazine, Sudol talked about how she came to adopt the best aspects of her musically talented father and the bookworm-like habits of her mother, and how that influence respectively contributed to her debut album.

“[My parents] were wonderfully encouraging and let me find my own artistic legs,” Sudol said.”I chose music, but they stood behind me and made sure I had a safe place to grow and learn in. I was very lucky, and still am. I credit them with never trying to influence me, or mold me into mini-versions of them. They just let me be, and I managed to follow in their footsteps anyhow.”

Although the young woman has always been in love with words and expressing herself through her voice, it took some finagling and self-determination to get to the point in her career that she is at today, she said in the interview.

“My favorite thing in the world was writing songs, but I refused to learn how to play piano, or any other instrument, for that matter,” Sudol said. “It was very limiting creatively. At a certain point, I realized that rebelling against learning the piano was not a smart choice, and the only person suffering from it was me. So I learned. Now it’s one of my greatest joys, and I can’t bear to be separated from a piano for longer than a few days.”

Now that she has mastered both the art of playing piano and the art of making it big in the mainstream music business, Sudol is ready to take on the world. With her young talent, she surely has many years of success ahead of her and she said that her goals and dreams are limitless at this time. But with all that aside, she thinks she will probably just stick with music.

“Perhaps [I will become a novelist] one day. If I can come up with a good enough story, I might just,” Sudol said. “It would have to be quite something to hold my attention (and the reader’s), melody-free, for the amount of requisite pages. Otherwise I’d probably crumple it up and head to the piano.”

Intrigued? This beautiful-voiced pianist plans to continue her tour and she may be coming to a city near you. Check out her schedule at A Fine Frenzy’s official site.