Hi, I'm Dana

I’ve been writing songs in my head for as long as I can remember. I thought everyone was walking around quietly songwriting like I was: Have a great night out with your friends? Write a song to celebrate! Trying to understand something? Find the perfect word to fit into that rhyme scheme you hear in your head and you’ll understand. Heartbroken? A song with the right lyrics will keep you company and maybe give you the courage to say what you need to. 

It wasn’t until I started writing my songs down in never-ending notebooks that I thought, maybe not everyone is doing this. For a while, writing them down was enough. Until it wasn’t. When my dad suddenly died, I thought about my life and if I was really living it. I thought, What if nobody ever hears my songs? What if I am the only person that ever hears them?

Difficult times can show us who we really are. They can challenge us to be brave enough to live fully. 

One of my favourite feelings is being on stage connecting with an audience. I’ve done that in plays and singing anthems but to do that with my own authentic songs is incredibly vulnerable and so exciting. 

I’m so excited to share these songs I have been singing quietly to myself for years. I want to contribute to the music landscape that has been with me through the good times and the bad. These songs are the soundtracks to my life. I want to write music for people’s soundtracks too. I hope these songs can keep you company, give you a channel to belt out your feelings or a soundtrack to dance along to, and maybe even offer some encouragement along the way. 

Thank you for being here. 

Xo Dana