Dana Parker

Fact: Music lovers are passionate about their favorites. We fall in love with an artist and rarely turn our backs on them. We typically can recall when we first laid ears on our favorite CD, where we were in our lives, and there’s always some special memory attached to our favorite songs. Dana Parker evokes those feelings with a thrilling mix of R&B, Hip-Hop and Rock,

Hardly a newcomer, Parker, from the metropolitan DC area, has been performing since age 4, the age she taught herself to play piano by ear. Having previously studied ballet, tap, jazz and point, she became a member of Howard University’s Children’s Theatre at age 10 performing in plays throughout the country. Her first recording contract came at age 13, signing to Michael Bivins’ Biv10/Motown records in a girl group then called "Tomboyy." It was through Bivins she received her first publishing opportunity and wrote lyrics on his compilation album “All-4-1-4-All,” which included the renowned group Boyz II Men. Later, Parker was a spokes model for Clairol’s Textures and Tones line of hair care products. Her final experience with the traditional music business was a recording contract with Warner Brother’s Records, but due to the changing climate she was dropped before she could complete an album.

The ups and downs of her tumultuous career coupled with the trials of life lead to a depression she kept from everyone around her. She was not a stranger to being, shall we say, at her lowest, yet there was something that kept her chin up. You guessed it. Music.

Dana poured her emotions into expressive lyrics and soulful music production. Notebooks of songs came out of her depression. "Writing became my therapy," she says. "I realized I needed to change my thinking, and writing about it helped me through it." Dana eventually returned to the music scene with a new lease on life. But it became very important that she showcase the songs that brought so much emotion to her heart during her lowest of times. Dana Parker’s music takes you on a twisted, eclectic, and sometimes dark road of what a person can feel when suffering from the often unnoticed desease called depression. She also offers guidance on self-therapy and is living proof there is a way out.

Her stage presence is killer, and the new sound is just as intriguing. The songs, the lyrics, the voice, the band. It makes musical sense that Dana is Rock-R&B.Let her take you with her. Let go. And…

Love. Harder. This is where R&B rocks.

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