Shana Cleveland

Shana Cleveland is a Seattle-based vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist known both on her behalf use noir browse group La Luz and her folk-oriented task Shana Cleveland & the Sandcastles. A indigenous of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Cleveland relocated to LA where she started developing the complex John Fahey-inspired fingerpicked acoustic guitar style she’d later use in her single function fronting the Sandcastles. Although that task began in ’09 2009, her following proceed to Seattle and the forming of the all-female rock-band La Luz in 2012 demanded the majority of her artistic concentrate. Influenced by traditional ’60s girl organizations, doo wop, browse, and garage area music, they released their debut recording It’s Alive in 2013. Ahead of La Luz’s development, Cleveland documented Oh Guy, Cover the bottom, her laid-back indie folk debut using the Sandcastles in 2011, which would stay unreleased until 2015 when Seattle-based indie Suicide Press Records released the recording. Cleveland can be a visual designer and in 2012 coated a couple of 37 trading credit cards for folk label Tompkins Square known as “Obscure Giants of CLASSICAL GUITAR.”