Healing Harmonies

Ashley Kutcher ���20 is a breakout music star.

By Rebecca Kirkman

Ashley Kutcher
Photo: Clyde Munroe

As the pandemic took hold across the U.S., many of Ashley Kutcher���s nursing classmates graduated early to help on the frontlines. Kutcher, however, found another way to mend hearts and minds: writing and performing the aptly titled, ���Love You From a Distance,��� one of the biggest music streaming hits of the last year.

By the time she graduated, Kutcher had attracted the attention of major record labels, walking away from 窪蹋勛圖厙 with a Bachelor of Science in nursing and a contract with Darkroom/Interscope Records.

���When I was able to feel like I was helping more people with music than I was with nursing, I was like, ���This just seems like the career path I���m supposed to go toward,������ Kutcher says.

As a senior, she was taking remote classes, working as a student nurse and wrapping up her nursing practicum. Yet the Baltimore native still made time to record and share her original music on social media. When a video she recorded sitting on her bathroom floor took off on TikTok, Kutcher released the official version on multiple streaming platforms. 

���The next day, I woke up, and I was charting on iTunes,��� Kutcher recalls.

This spring she recorded her first single of 2021������If I Could,��� which was inspired by the desire to take away the pain of someone suffering from cancer.

Kutcher is looking forward to sharing her music with more people soon, through a tour and her EP, which will be released later this year.

���I think my best songs are yet to come.���