Brandi Shearer - Biography
Brandi Shearer’s artistic path has taken a winding route from her childhood home in rural Oregon to the cabarets of Hungary and France then onwards to both Northern and Southern California.
Shearer spent several years performing locally before putting together her own band in 2003 to record her self-released Music of a Saturday Night in a single day. An intense 4-hour recording session several months later led to her sophomore disc, The Sycamore.
Shearer released her next album, Close to Dark, in 2007 on Amoeba Records. The album is imbued with Shearer’s smoky voice and classic, blues-inflected songwriting. It was an excursion into dreamy worlds simmering with understated sexuality. The restrained arrangements and deft production by Larry Klein (Madeleine Peyroux, Joni Mitchell) added a delicious tension to the songs and complimented perfectly Shearer’s less-is-more vocal style.
Shearer’s next release, Love Don't Make You Juliet, was released in 2009. The album was produced by Norah Jones’ collaborator, Craig Street.
