About

I’m Marcie Sundaram and I’m a trans woman who records original compositions and cover songs and releases them on YouTube and a wide variety of streaming platforms. My music is inspired by my particular love of the Beatles and 1950s rock & roll, along with a wide variety of other musical genres including rock, pop, blues, jazz, reggae, folk, and classical. I’m a multi-instrumentalist and play guitar, bass, piano, drums, and more, and also sing and enjoy building up rich harmony vocals track-by-track. My compositions take a largely melodic approach, along with harmonic complexity and contrapuntal textures.

I started my YouTube channel Rockin’ Pneumonia as something to do during the COVID lockdown, recording some old 50s rock & roll songs just for fun in GarageBand on my iPad with a very basic setup. But more recently I’ve started posting my original songs there as well, and my originals can be found on all the major music streaming platforms as well as in the iTunes store.

Only Love is my attempt at a love anthem in the vein of 1960s songs such as The Beatles’ All You Need Is Love, and was originally written for the #Songtember song-in-a-month challenge on YouTube in 2024. You can find it on all the major streaming platforms through DistroKid.

When I was in my teens I wrote over 200 songs as I worked on learning the craft of songwriting. A Prayer For This World is one of those songs, which I have now recorded many years after its composition. It can be streamed on all the major platforms via DistroKid. This and other songs written in that era will be released on the upcoming album Throwback.

During the COVID lockdown as a way of keeping myself occupied, I started recording cover versions of 1950s rock & roll songs and putting them up on my YouTube channel titled Rockin’ Pneumonia. Some of them are pretty straightforward, whereas in others I’ve experimented a bit. I’ve recently expanded into recording covers of Beatle songs as well.