About me
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A little about me...
A child of the '70s in the Deep South, I was born into an extended family of hard-working shrimpers with a preacher father and teacher mother who both played music and valued the arts. I learned Suzuki piano and started acting and singing in plays, musicals, and operas. As a teenager, I picked up the guitar and found a way to put the notebooks full of songs I’d been writing for years to music. I continued performing, both with theatre and my own music, throughout college at the University of Richmond, where I studied Theatre, Leadership, and Dance. Pursuing an MFA in Theatre at Yale School of Drama, I found myself manically writing songs and yearning to perform.
Moving to Manhattan, I landed in the heyday of NYC’s iconic “Antifolk” music community, performing along side artists like Kimya Dawson, Regina Spektor, and Langhorne Slim. During my tenure in Manhattan, I hosted the two largest weekly open mic events for singer/songwriters in the city.
After leaving Manhattan, I had a rewarding and successful decade managing acclaimed NYC-based poet, Mike Tyler, and running his production and publishing company, The Art Cannot Be Damaged, Inc.
Several years ago, I decided to finish the record I had shelved when leaving Manhattan. NYC-based Producer and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Kobrick and I assembled an all-star band of Grammy award-winning musicians.
“The History of You and Me,” an epic twelve-song record with a gorgeous narrative arc, is set for release in 2025.
Hills was selected by Some Serious Business for their “SSB AWAY: Artist-In-Residence” program in July of 2022 where she workshopped and premiered the release show for the record, combining her autobiographical storytelling with songs from the record.
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How I work
My songwriting is usually a very solitary process. I write songs in bubbles—they just come to me—whole. It started as a young child. I have dressers filled with notebooks filled with songs. I'm grateful to work with friends and talented musicians and producers that help me flesh out the production. I love to sing and perform, but it brings me even greater joy to hear other folks singing my songs and adding their own unique styles and interpretations.
The many talented folks I work with
I've been working with my good friend and producer Thomas Kobrick (Midnight Studios, NYC) for almost twenty years. I'm also blessed to have a talented community of friends, many of whom have graciously lent their talents to my recordings over the years. Charlton Singleton (trumpet) and Kevin Hamilton (bass) from the Grammy award-winning band Ranky Tanky both play on my forthcoming record, along with Ward Williams (cello) and Matthew Bivins (accordion) (Jump, Little Children), Michael Flynn (Slow Runner), Bill Carson (guitar and banjo), Benji Lee (drums), and a whole lot more!
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