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Diane Birch produced her studio room debut with 2009’s Bible Belt, a combined mix of singer/songwriter spirit and soft ’70s-period play the vein of Carole Ruler, Laura Nyro, and Elton John. Although created in Michigan, Birch journeyed the world as a kid, jumping between Zimbabwe, South Africa, Australia, and Oregon …

New York-based musician Meredith Godreau devised the pseudonym Gregory & the Hawk in 2003 as a way to escape the media stereotypes that often accompany feminine singer/songwriters. Godreau is certainly equally efficient on electric guitar, piano, and violin, and her house recordings discovered an market on the web, spawning numerous …

Inspired by famous brands Elton John, Billy Joel, Tori Amos, and Ben Folds, Michigan-born songstress Annie Stela got her begin composing music during her teenage years. Developing up in the suburbs of Detroit didn’t supply the social hub Stela craved, however the budding songwriter utilized her period there to master …

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 …

Using the 2004 launch of her debut LP, Everything I’ve Got in my own Pocket, Minnie Driver became the most recent feature film star to pursue a profession like a pop singer. Created Amelia Drivers in London on January 31, 1970, she grew up in Barbados before age group of …

The choice rock outfit the Perishers includes Ola Klüft (vocals/guitar), Martin Gustafson (keyboards/backing vocals), Pehr Åström (bass), and Thomas Hedlund (drums). Hailing from Umeå, Sweden, the Perishers shaped in 1997. They performed shows within their hometown until putting your signature on a recording agreement with the neighborhood Swedish imprint North …

Created in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in 1977, vocalist/songwriter Cameron McGill credits his dad’s record collection for sparking his music interest. Years as a child years spent hearing the Beach Young boys, Neil Youthful, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Money left the feeling, and by enough time he was in senior high school, …

Toby Lightman studied violin we were young in NJ, nonetheless it wasn’t until college that she begun to seriously consider a profession in music. She examined radio and tv at the School of Wisconsin, learning electric guitar in her free time and performing with cover rings. After college Lightman transferred …

Approaching strong behind R. Stevie Moore as the utmost talented vocalist/songwriter to become located in the non-descript bedroom community of Montclair, NJ, Jenny Owen Youngs fuses Liz Phair’s perceptive and brashly funny lyrics using the orchestrated folk-pop of Regina Spektor and Erin McKeown, adding only a hint of Nellie McKay’s …

Vocalist/songwriter Megan Reilly composes a lilting sort of beauty that’s much like Kitty Power, Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis, and Tanya Donelly. Given birth to in Memphis in 1978, Reilly started taking acoustic guitar lessons at age group 15. She created her first music group, Lucynell Crater (called honoring a Flannery …