Sera Cahoone is a singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington. Cahoone's music combines elements of both classic country-western and modern indie rock and lo-fi. Cahoone is the daughter of a Rocky Mountain dynamite salesman and grew up in Littleton, Colorado. She got her musical start on the drums at twelve years old. Her first stage performance came in a suburban Denver bar, where, at the age of 12, she played drums behind a bunch of bluesmen on open mic night. Cahoone attended Columbine High School. At twenty-one Cahoone moved to Seattle and drummed for many artists including Carissa's Wierd, Los Angeles musician Patrick Park, and on Band of Horses? debut, Everything All the Time. In 2006, Cahoone focused on singing, songwriting, and guitar playing, skills she'd been honing for nearly 15 years on her own. Her first album was Sera Cahoone. The album was praised by indie-rock radio station KEXP along with NPR. Seattle indie newspaper The Stranger called Sera?s debut "?a breathtaking collection of sad and dusky songs that reveal an artist of remarkable depth as well as a truly stunning voice." [More at Wikipedia]

August 4th, 1975 in (Age 49)