hometown: Los Angeles, CA
current town: Los Angeles, CA
music icon: Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday
favorite food: Noodles
fun fact/secret: Dana was penpals with Rosa Parks
bio: Dana Williams has the rare ability to bend time and turn feeling bad into something impossibly lovely. Raised on singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, the L.A.-based artist brings a jazzy nonchalance to her delivery while drawing big emotion from the subtlest vocal movement. Dana’s debut release - The Lonely One - featured breakout single “Keep Me Waiting,” which earned the distinction of being the only original vocal composition featured in Damien Chazelle’s Oscar-winning film Whiplash and was later followed by singles “Fooling Myself” and “Honey,” which have garnered over 9MM streams to date. Dana has collaborated with artists like Freddie Gibbs, Boogie, and also Rejjie Snow, Kaytranada and Aminé on “Egyptian Luvr" and in 2020, was named a Idolator Artist To Watch, a Fender Next Artist and was selected by H.E.R. to perform on Girls With Guitars livestream show. The “retro Norah Jones” (Pigeons and Planes) has released multiple singles this recently including “You Win” -- an intimate and bittersweet breakup song -- and “Uncomplicated,” a mellow track about the the beginning of a relationship, and will be releasing more music throughout the rest of the year.