Chances are you have heard, met, or worked with Taylor Barton: a smart, multi-talented, singer-songwriter, writer, playwright, poet, dancer, and producer. She has spent over three decades traversing the arts and culminated into a 21st century Renaissance woman. Born in Baltimore, Maryland she started her musical training with piano lessons at age six. She enrolled in the Peabody Institute at age thirteen where she studied dance until her high school graduation..
She has been co-producer, and partner in an indie boutique label, Green Mirror Music with GE Smith (former SNL bandleader) for ten years. Barton's songwriting has clearly succeeded in creating a distinctive body of work that is highly accessible - very unique and original.
Vanity Fair calls her voice beautiful and seductive. Rolling Stone calls her beguiling and raves about her recordings. Frank Hadley of The Boston Herald describes her voice as achingly superb. David Sprague of Newsday – she waxes poetic without slipping into pretense and uses decidedly non-hallmark phraseology. She has created her own musical niche, and can't be pigeon holed with her signature dreamy melodic rhythms.
Barton’s music is memorable, haunting, and deeply mysterious. Barton captures a wealth of knowledge and spirit in her music delivering evocative landscapes of both body and soul. Her live shows are also intimately polished. Philadelphia's Cutting Edge: she charms her audiences with a chameleon-like versatility, using gutsy theatrics that are never overdone. Vastly prolific, she has released five CD's in six years. Rolling Stone embraced Dry Land: sweet vocals and far-reaching. AMG called it her best yet. She is debuting her new band Wicked Felina by releasing her sixth CD Taylor Barton, Vapor, featuring her collaborative efforts with the lovely harpist, Erin Hill.
Vapor is Taylor’s best yet. Gorgeous musicianship and dreamy celestial sounds. Uplifting, hypnotic, porch toe tapping to storytelling, swinging and ethereal.. Edie Brickell singer-songwriter
Her single, Not the Kind You Keep charted on AC stations and was featured on NBC’s ‘ED’. Other songs have been featured on Saturday Night Live, Conan, and Disney soundtracks. Her four previous releases, received rave reviews as well. She is the recipient of ten consecutive ASCAP Popular Panel Awards that she received in 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, and 1994. Her solo discography is Dry Land, 13 Break-ups, Skinny Kat, and Thoroughbred.
Taylor Barton has also written five full-length plays. Her plays have been produced in NYC at Naked Angels, The Village Gate, La Mama, Musical Theatreworks, and The Woman's Project. She is the author of an award winning play, The Eric Clapton Breakfast Club. Her debut novel Hotheaded Saints is in stores now.
"Mystery, mayhem and humor ensue in Taylor Barton's fabulous Hotheaded Saints. --Adriana Trigiani. Taylor Barton has drawn a compelling and fascinating portrait of the underbelly of the Hamptons and the interior life of a woman in search of redemption in it." --Rosanne Cash Singer, Songwriter, Author of Bodies of Water and Penelope Jane
Since 2002, after adopting her daughter, Josie from China, Barton has gone global and immersed herself in supporting worthy causes. For the better part of two years she worked pro bono on Songs For Life, a charity CD with all proceeds going to the relief of 14 Sub-Saharan African states afflicted with HIV. She has co-chaired several galas for PAX, a groundbreaking organization against gun violence. She is an avid supporter.
Taylor Barton has performed on Conan, Saturday Night Live, VH1, Bravo’s Broadway’s Best, After Breakfast, Mountain Stage, BET, World Cafe, Poughkeepsie Live, Acoustic Cafe, WoodSongs, Westwood One Radio, House of Blues Radio, and ABC radio, WFUV, and more. She was a featured artist at the R & R AAA Summit, as well as the CMJ and Gavin conventions. She divides her time between NYC and Amagansett, NY where she lives with her husband and daughter.
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