Tag Archives: Contemporary Singer/Songwriter

Given birth to in 1975, Scottish vocalist/songwriter KT Tunstall — not brief for anything, the KT is merely another spelling of Katie — originates from the quaint university or college city of St. Andrews. Credited partly to being used at delivery, her creativity and creative part flourished from in early …

Amiable West Coastline singer/songwriter Brett Dennen 1st drew attention in 2004 using the solitary “Desert Sunrise.” The tune, using its easy groove and soulful phrasing, garnered plenty of spins on KCRW to warrant the discharge of his self-titled debut the next 12 months. Stylistically, Dennen’s thoughtful, laid-back music participate in …

Given birth to in Eugene, Oregon, vocalist/songwriter Mat Kearney began his music career 400 kilometers south in the Chico branch of California Condition University or college, where he studied books and played within the team. After completing his junior 12 months, Kearney visited Nashville with friend/maker Robert Marvin, using the …

When Nelly Furtado appeared with her neo-hippie, multiculti debut Whoa, Nelly! in 2001, a dance-diva makeover appeared like an impossibility, however the vocalist/songwriter revived and suffered her career using the sexually billed Loose in 2006, and along the way, consolidated her placement among the most unstable performers of her 10 …

Vocalist/songwriter Rachael Yamagata was raised hearing Carole Ruler, Roberta Flack, Adam Taylor, and so on, for music was the thing in Yamagata’s lifestyle that remained consistent. Her parents divorced when she was two, forcing her to discover a stability between her German-Italian mother’s house in NEW YORK as well as …

Quebecois singer/songwriter Nicola Ciccone shown a talent and affinity for composing music early in lifestyle. He began composing at age 12; his initial compositions had been English-language songs, nonetheless it was his French materials that obtained him recognition, beginning in his past due teenage years. In 1998, at age group …

Mary Chapin Carpenter was section of a small motion of folk-influenced nation singer/songwriters from the past due ’80s. Although some of the performers never attained commercial achievement, Carpenter could route her anti-Nashville strategy into graph success and sector awards by the first ’90s. Carpenter was created and elevated in Princeton, …

Keane’s piano-driven pop/rock and roll is established by vocalist Tom Chaplin, drummer Richard Hughes, and pianist Tim Rice-Oxley, 3 childhood close friends from the tiny town of Fight in East Sussex, Britain. Created in 1997, the group began being a college-aged cover music group. Guitarist Dominic Scott was also component …

Alex Cuba (Alexis Puentes) is a vocalist/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist given birth to in Artemisa, Cuba in 1974. The boy of the music instructor, Cuba was raised encircled by music and started performing from an extremely early age group. After marrying a Canadian female, Cuba shifted to Vancouver in 1999, and …

Individuals and culture of the present day South serve as the inspiration for the songs of Nashville-based singer/songwriter Kate Campbell. The girl of the Baptist preacher, Campbell uses her tracks to chronicle the societal adjustments below the Mason-Dixon Range. Created in New Orleans, where her dad was going to seminary …