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Priscilla Ahn

 
Artist: Priscilla Ahn
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  • Active: 2000s
  • Genres: Rock
  • Instrument: Vocals
  • Representative Albums: "A Good Day

Biography

A charming singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (playing the guitar, bass, harmonica, ukelele, and even kazoo from time to time), Priscilla Ahn was raised in rural Bernville, PA. She started playing guitar at the age of 14 and performed in choirs and musical productions throughout high school. Following graduation, the burgeoning songwriter began playing open mics in Philadelphia, New York, and New Jersey while keeping her home in Bernville. Driving upwards of eighty miles for every show proved tiresome, however, and Ahn soon moved to L.A., where she became friends with fellow musician Joshua Radin after sharing a bill with him at the Hotel Café. Radin soon signed with Columbia Records and enlisted Ahn to tour with him, although she took time off to record a self-titled EP with producers Joey Waronker and Gus Seyfrett. In 2007, she played a showcase in New York City for Blue Note Records and was promptly signed to the label, which released Priscilla Ahn's full-length debut, Good Day (also produced by Waronker and Seyfrett), in June 2008. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide
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Priscilla Ahn

Background information
Birth name Priscilla Hartranft
Origin Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres Acoustic, folk
Instruments Guitar, piano, harmonica
Years active 2003–present
Labels Blue Note
Website PriscillaAhn.com

Priscilla Ahn (born Priscilla Natalie Hartranft, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

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Early life

Priscilla Ahn was born in Fort Stewart, Georgia to Harry and Kay Hartranft. However, she adopted the maiden name of her mother, who is South Korean. She spent her early childhood years there and in South Korea, after which she lived in Reading, Pennsylvania for ten years. From there, she lived in Bernville, Pennsylvania and attended Tulpehocken Area High School until she left home for Los Angeles after graduation.

Biography

Priscilla Ahn had her start during her time at Tulpehocken Area High School, playing coffee houses and open mikes in the Bernville, Reading, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. She was advised by a college music professor, who recognized her skills, to pursue a songwriting career instead of going to college, so she moved to Los Angeles about a year after graduating from high school.

After moving to Los Angeles, Priscilla Ahn toured with Joshua Radin, Amos Lee, Ray Lamontagne and Cary Brothers, sang on Amos Lee's album Supply and Demand, performed her song "Dream" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.[1] Two of her songs were also featured on two episodes of Grey's Anatomy.[2][3] "Dream" was also featured on the soundtrack to the movie Disturbia,[4] and more recently on an episode from Ghost Whisperer as well as the episode of the BBC's "Holby City", broadcast on 04 August 2009.[5] She was also a part of the 2008 Hotel Cafe tour.[6] In June 2008, she was the Artist of the Week for Paste magazine.[7] Her song "I Don't Think So" was featured at the end of NBC's Knight Rider premiere episode.

In 2009, her single "Dream" was featured in the film Bride Wars and a brief clip of "A Good Day (Morning Song)" can be heard at the end of the Psych episode, "Tuesday the Seventeenth." The song dream also featured on episode 22 of the third season of ABC's hit show Brothers and Sisters that aired in May 2009 and appeared in episode 21 of Eli Stone. The song "Living In A Tree" is featured in the 2009 Jeep Wrangler commercial for the Dodge Chrysler "We Build" campaign. She is also featured in "I Am Strong" on Tiesto's 2009 album Kaleidoscope.

In 2009, her single "Dream" was also featured in the film "Love Happens" starring Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart.

Discography

Albums

EPs

  • Priscilla Ahn (2007, self-released)
  • Live Session, (2008, iTunes)

Singles

  • "Dream" (2008, Blue Note)
  • "I'll Never Smile Again" (2009)
  • "I Am Strong" Tiesto feat. Priscilla Ahn (2009)

Music videos

  • "Dream"

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