Sofia Donavan is an 18 year old singer-songwriter- Someone You Should Lookout For
Sofia Donavan is an 18 year old singer-songwriter living between London and Vermont who is releasing her 2nd EP "Left To The Clouds" on May 19th and will be available digitally everywhere.
The
music is a blend of country / folk / pop and is a follow up to her debut EP
"Square One" which was released in September 2013. She plays the Tanglewood Dreadnaught
Acoustic Guitar as well as a Taylor 712.
One
of the new tracks off the upcoming EP "Note To Tennessee" Sofia
performed for Ont' Sofa Gibson Sessions in UK recently check out her
performance
Sofia
is completing her freshman year at college.
She started singing lessons at 8 years old and at the age of 13 she took
up guitar and piano. She notes
"Though I’d always known there was
no better feeling than the rush I got after performing in school concerts or
family shows, I only really realized that music was not a hobby but actually a
necessity once I started writing songs influenced greatly by artists like Taylor
Swift, The Civil Wars, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. This happened when I was
13, after I found I had a lot to say and a lot of time on my hands after
recovering from a surgery.”
After
playing a song called “Soldier’s Letter” to her singing teacher and seeing her
reaction, she realized that
song writing was something she could pursue
seriously. Donavan started posting
covers of popular songs on Youtube to begin building a small platform where she
would later introduce her original music. During this time, she began to play at open
mic nights and local songwriter venues in London. After winning a school competition, she had
the opportunity to play at the Isle of Wight Festival and open up for a band in
Shepherd’s Bush Empire. In 2013 she
released her first EP The Square One EP independently and started to sell copies
at shows.
After
reaching out to an advertisement that asked songwriters to send songs in to be
reviewed on a website called MusicXray, she received a response from musician
and artist manager Brian Steen saying that he was interested in hearing more of
her music. Through this relationship,
she was introduced to the head of A&R for Windup Records: Diana Meltzer who
then eventually led her to meet Jason Elgin who would produce the Left To The
Clouds EP. After a lot of planning and
skype discussions, she took a leap of faith flying to Birmingham, Alabama and
recorded her second EP.
WEBSITES
MUSIC VIDEOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=H6CZUlvn2Zs (Soldier's
Letter from her debut EP "Squared One")
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