Blair Hansen

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Trained in classical voice since the age of 10, Blair Hansen is emerging as independent artist and songwriter. Her ability to blend classical and folk roots with pop sensibilities at the age of 18, has given Blair a sound that is unmistakably her own. While she herself would say that her music lands "somewhere between the Dixie Chicks and Sarah McLachlan,” the depth and soul coming from her voice hints at much more.

Blair Hansen has been blessed with a voice that can glide in angelic falsetto one moment and turn quickly into a raspy yell in the next. Since she was just 7 years of age her natural talent has been heaped with praise and earned her numerous choral and voice awards in her hometown of Castro Valley, CA. However it’s clear to anyone that hears her sing that she is destined for much bigger things. At fourteen she picked up an acoustic guitar and began writing songs before she even knew the names of the chords she was playing.

Now with a band of experienced rock musicians around her, Blair has been able to turn the songs that she strums on her acoustic guitar into dramatic rock anthems that express the urgency and surprising wisdom of a woman so young. Drawing support from her family and friends, Blair has transformed from a girl with a guitar to an artist that is on the verge of something special.

With the help of her producer, Clay Bigham, Blair has also been able to independently release her own full length debut CD. The album is an encapsulation of Blair’s own unique portraits of her life thus far as a teenager growing up in the Bay Area. She is hard at work on her next batch of pop gems, which by her own volition are markedly more “mature” and “reflective.”

Even though Blair picked her first acoustic guitar three and a half years ago, she is no stranger to the road. Already a veteran of the festival circuit in Northern California, Blair has opened for the likes of Susan Tedeschi and Chuck Prophet in San Francisco and held her own at the prestigious South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas. With upcoming performances slated for Los Angeles and New York Blair Hansen is ready and willing to take her music anywhere people will listen. We hope that the people are prepared.