Album Notes

Alison Breitman's debut album, The Good Person's Angel, is complete with descriptions of love, loss, the universal ache to be any place other than where you are and the optimism to see your way through it all. With her haunting melodies and angelic voice, Alison takes listeners through a trying period of her life, bringing them to a hopeful future.

Born in the suburbs of Chicago and raised in Long Island, New York, Alison learned early on to combine the tough, free-speaking attitude of New York with a Midwestern sweetness. Not afraid to show her vulnerability, she expresses her emotions with abandon - in tune with listeners' desires to connect and empathize with an artist and music.

Expressing emotion through music comes easily to Alison, who has been singing since the age of four. Classically trained throughout her schooling, she tested her skills in various forms of performance: opera, musical theater, and contemporary folk. Bearing the cold and snow, Alison ventured to the University of Michigan where she studied music and psychology. It was there that she expanded her musical strengths, teaching herself to play the guitar. She soon discovered a penchant for songwriting. A poet at heart, Alison finally had a vocal outlet for her intense writings. The songs, a selection of ten written between 1996 and 1998, became The Good Person's Angel, which was recorded and released in August 2001.

Alison returned home to New York in 2000, where she has been working steadily at her craft. She finds her inspiration in her everyday life and from the lively city around her, which goes directly to her songs and fuels her live performances. The embodiment of her passion for her art and the honesty of her experiences make her a powerful watch. Audiences are riveted, offering pin-drop silence during a song and rousing applause afterward. Never one to play the same show twice, Alison regularly keeps her fans surprised with new songs or revamped versions of older material. She is a presence on stage - a light many can relate to and admire with equal ease, who always keeps her listeners coming back for more.


With her strong debut and recently released second album, The Game, tucked under her belt, Alison Breitman is poised for success as an artist with an incomparable voice and a whole lot to say. And the future only promises to reveal even more facets of this intriguingly complex and admirably talented woman.