R.I. indie pop musician Lainey Dionne on finding inspiration, writing songs for TV, and getting her start in Smithfield – The Boston Globe

“So I kick my leg up high in the air, and they all did the crowd part,” she recalls on this week’s Rhode Island Report podcast.

“To have that connection, that moment, of everybody doing the same thing at once, I was like, this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.”

From there, Dionne went to Berklee College of Music in Boston; has released troves of her own music, including a 2021 full-length debut, “Self Titled;” has used her knack for writing songs for television shows and other artists; and most recently, became a voting member of the Recording Academy for the Grammy’s, as she discusses on the podcast.

“She knows what she wants in her music,” said Dewey Raposo, the Rhode Island PBS producer of “Ocean State Sessions,” a series showcasing local musicians. “I think that really comes across and that’s powerful, I think, for people watching and listening.”

Dionne will be featured in “Ocean State Sessions’ ” latest episode, which airs on Friday at 8 p.m.

The series is now in its fifth season.

“We just sort of try to bring our musicians into, you know, the homes of the people in their community,” Raposo said on the podcast, himself a musician. “It’s just a way to sort of throw some support at them and just sort of all support each other.”

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Christopher Gavin can be reached at christopher.gavin@globe.com.