"Sarah Pierce has a wonderfully unique sound. Her music is a blend of both the old and the new. Her lyrics daze with elegant poetry that carries the listener over wide musical vistas on each soul-bearing turn of her incomparable voice. Sarah Pierce seems a likely candidate for contemporary music fame."
The Los Angeles Times
Sarah Pierce was born in Rockford, Illinois and raised in rural Texas and Colorado. The daughter of a cowboy raised in a family of cattlemen (4 members are in the Cattlemen's Hall of Fame), Sarah's dream was to be a singer, a dream that began to take shape when she was 12 years old. Her stepfather was a small town doctor by day and played bass in the local country band on the weekends. One day he asked her to come along and sing a few songs. After one song, Sarah had a gig. “The stage is like a big comfortable couch; I am so at home there.”
With a master's degree in medical science, Sarah moved to Denver, Colorado as a practicing physician's assistant. While there, she felt that she had been away from her music long enough and, after hearing about a serious music scene in Phoenix, Arizona, decided to move to the desert. “I was missing something crucial to my existence —my music.” In the fall of that year, Sarah began finding the players that would become her band. By the following spring, “Sarah Pierce and the Healers” had been born.
While performing at a local club, Sarah was seen by John McEuen (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band). That evening he asked if she'd be willing to go on the road as his opening act. Thirteen weeks and thousands of miles later, Sarah had performed before tens of thousands of people, receiving standing ovations wherever she sang. Once back in Phoenix, she opened for many major touring acts. In 1991, Sarah regionally released her debut record, West Texas Wind, on Little Bear Records.
In the spring of 1992, Sarah moved to Santa Barbara, California to broaden her performance horizons in and around Southern California. With a new band, her reputation grew quickly and the cream of the local agencies soon saw her. Subsequently, she was booked an additional 70,000 miles performing at fairs, festivals, conventions, and opening act dates from South Dakota and Northern British Columbia to San Antonio, Texas. While living in California, she was seen in performance on MTV and was heard as the singing voice of Calamity Jane on the Emmy-nominated Time-Life television mini-series, The Wild West. While on a trip to Austin, Texas, in the fall of 1993, Sarah discovered a feeling of true belonging and decided to make Austin home.
In 1995, Sarah successfully completed her first European tour and in 1998 released her second album on Little Bear Records, No Place Like Home. This record solidified her popularity abroad. No Place Like Home was released domestically in the spring, 2001.
During 1998 and 1999, Sarah began preparing for her next record in the midst of touring. In the spring of 2000, she released Birdman, in Europe and stateside in May of 2001. In December of 2000, Sarah released her first children’s recording, The Buttercup Princess, with her proceeds donated to The Ronald McDonald House Charities worldwide. Sarah spent 2001 and most of 2002 on an international tour in support of Birdman, while working on her next project, Love’s The Only Way.
Once again recorded in Austin, Texas, Love’s The Only Way was the next step in the musical evolution of this incredible singer/songwriter. More up tempo, a bit funkier, always the same message of hope and love, this recording featured a total of thirteen songs, eleven of which were written by Sarah, including an amazing rendition of the powerful Kimmy Rhodes ballad, “I’m Not An Angel,” and Sarah’s deeply emotional version of the timeless ‘60s anthem, “Get Together." In the fall of 2004, two singles were released from this recording to Adult Contemporary Radio. Both achieved Top 20 status with "Get Together" climbing to number 13 domestically.
In 2005, Sarah recorded It Must Be Christmas Time. A collection of ten holiday classics...five of which were penned by Sarah...It Must be Christmas Time was played on Adult Contemporary and National Public Radio stations nationwide both in 2005, 2006, and again last year...rumor has it that she will be doing another and that it will be available for the 2008 Holiday Season.
2006 was spent rehearsing a new acoustic band, writing for a new project, and performing domestically and abroad.
In July, 2007, Sarah took three weeks away from writing and recording to go back to Italy for a tour of festivals. In seventeen days of headlining, the worst response was 'only' one encore. Upon returning she took the rest of 2007 to finish recording her newest project....Cowboy's Daughter.
So, it has definitely been a long, wondrous, and sometimes hard road for a girl raised on cattle ranches in Texas, Florida, and Colorado. Thankfully, since moving back to Texas, Sarah has spent her time developing her own, unique musical style. Although that style owes some to rock and roll, the daughter of a cowboy discovered that her musical soul ultimately was the music with which she had been raised. Appropriately, the new music of Sarah Pierce was presented for the first time on March 28, 2008 at the oldest dance hall in Texas - Gruene Hall. Opening for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Sarah and her band played to the sold out crowd receiving ovations after every song. It is fairly safe to say that Sarah Pierce is back...and better than ever!
“Though I truly respect and love all styles of music, traditional country is held in a most special place in my heart.” "I trust this is where I am supposed to be."
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