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Artist
Kira Fontana
12+ albums
female vocalistssinger-songwriterrockpoppiano
about
On her debut album, The Inner Revolution, alternative songstress Kira Fontana embraces an emotional rawness without fear, while exploring a soul-searching mysticism that's undaunted in recognizing life's ever-changing moves. Written and arranged by Fontana, and mixed by Montreal's Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, Godspeed You Black Emperor!), The Inner Revolution was released in 2007 on Fontana's own Spark the Fire Records. In 2010, Fontana issued her follow up Seek the Light - EP, recorded and mixed in Los Angeles by Grammy-award winner Ryan Freeland (Rachael Yamagata, Ingrid Michaelson). For Fontana, finding that place where your creative desires become a tangible realization began as early as five-years-old, when she started playing the piano by ear. Before she reached her teens, she was writing pop songs and classical piano instrumentals. She soon developed an insatiable appetite for a wide spectrum of new music, from alternative rock to Javanese gamelan, Classical Indian music and minimalist composers Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt. "Hearing Music for 18 Musicians changed my life... I was completely blown away," Fontana says. "It was then that I knew I would be a composer." An anomaly among alt-rock musicians, Fontana studied classical composition with three Pulitzer prize winning composers before returning to her childhood love of songwriting. Her musical ventures took her to one of the top conservatories in the United States, the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New Yo
