Handpicked as one of Rolling Stone’s top 25 best bands on MySpace, Shannon Hurley is making a name for herself on the alternative pop scene. Her debut album "Ready to Wake Up" may have a familiar ring to it- Muzak has picked up her songs and they have been heard in countless grocery stores, restaurants, and department stores.
This Indiana-born musician has been playing music all her life, being brought up in a family of singers. Picking up piano at age 8, she then moved on to trombone. She graduated with a music degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, where she became the stage manager for Fox Theatre. After working in this capacity with Julian Lennon, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, and Rufus Wainwright, she became enamored with songwriting. She studied with Pat Leonard (hit songwriter for Madonna) and moved to Los Angeles is 2001.
Shannon is also a sought-after session musician and spent 2005 touring with artist/actress Brie Larson. She has also played keyboards for international artist Marina V. In addition to these accomplishments, she is also co-founded "Don't Call Us Tori!" (www.dontcallustori.com), an L.A. showcase for female singer-songwriters.
Shannon was commissioned in 2007 to write a song for the Getty Center exhibit, the Zuccaro Drawings. She performed at the Getty alongside Tom Freund, Jim Bianco, Beth Thornley, Priscilla Ahn, and Libbie Schrader.
In 2008 she compiled an album of remixes chosen from public submissions, of which over 400 versions of her songs from “Ready to Wake Up” have been lovingly embraced by the remix community.
She recently spent a year in Nashville and 3 months performing in Saigon. Vietnam. Now she is back in LA and working on her follow-up to "Ready to Wake Up" as well as an album for her new electronic pop project Lovers and Poets.