Artist Information Biography LAURA BRADLEY:  Bio — Laura Bradley is an LA-based musician/composer/singer whose fourth studio album, BLEED, transcends over-simplistic genre categorization. Bradley harnesses the power of her trademark angelic sound and unleashes her voice with the spectral force of an emotional whiplash as this high-speed rock album spins out into groove-heavy pockets of distortion and atonal dissonance, high-octane hooks and the haunting piano melodies that are the signature of Bradley’s compositional style.  Born in Toronto, Bradley grew up in Miami, Florida, where the musical influences are as diverse as the multicultural population.  Singing from earliest childhood, and self-taught on piano and guitar into her early teens, Bradley began working a heavy schedule of after school jobs when she was fourteen so that she could pay for professional music lessons in order to gain the technical mastery necessary to meet the demands of her ambitions as a composer and singer.  Her diligence and tenacity paid off in a music scholarship for operatic voice, where she expanded her multi-octave range and developed the fine-tuned vocal control that distinguishes her in the crowded field of singer-songwriters. Bradley’s family of instruments includes Magnolia, her 1920s Chickering upright piano, Ruby, her turn-of-the-century Chickering baby grand; and the guitars—Madeline, her very pretty Yamaha acoustic, Penelope, her lovely, albeit underplayed, Epiphone hollow-body jazz/electric, Margaret, her dependable Epiphone semi-hollow rock/electric and Delilah, her temperamental and oft’ times jealous Epiphone semi-hollow rock/electric.  Impressed by her playful theatrics and easy rapport with a “boisterous crowd,” at a recent LA gig, reviewer Mike Cavanaugh praised Bradley’s “superb guitar and songwriting capabilities” and her “melodic vocal range” in Music Connection.  Bradley toured nationally in support of her first two CDs, RAIN and STORM, and has performed at numerous LA rock venues, and was the opening act for Dionne Warwick and Friends at Miami’s Bank United Center.  Singles from RAIN and STORM are in rotation on multiple Clear Channel stations, and “Choosing You” was featured on the season finale of MTV’s The Real World — Down Under in Sydney, Australia.  Bradley has a great passion for film and she co-composed the score for William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, as well as writing and performing the theme song, “Sword and Stone.”  In addition, “Rain” is featured on the soundtrack for Benny Bliss and the Disciples of Greatness (feature film, Sundance Film Festival: Official Selection 2007), and “Love Song” is the theme song on “Butterflies,” a short film presented in Cannes 2008. Bradley is often invited to sing the American and Canadian national anthems at high-profile sporting events (NBA, NFL, HBO Boxing), and her version of “O’ Canada” is the #1 digital download of the song in the world.  Selected by the USO and Armed Forces Entertainment services, Bradley is preparing to travel to the Middle East in support of our embattled American troops. Instrumentation Laura Bradley: Guitar, Piano, Vocals Laura can play acoustically as a lone artist, or with her back up band, The Longing, that includes: Michael Wallace, Bass Yury Anisonyan, Rhythm Guitars Roy Lev-Ari, Lead Guitars Tom Plumb, Drums Discography Albums: Bleed (currently shopping) Rain (FairyDustMusic 2007) The Prayer (special premium package on Fairy Dust Music 2007) Storm (Streetbeat Records 2004) Anthems Singles: "Skin" (from the album Storm) "Choosing You" Links http://www.laurabradley.com Artist Website MySpace Artist Page