Sara Lewis is a soldier of love, a musician who wears her heart on her sleeve, opening her mind and heart to any audience. Her lyrics are a web of carefully woven metaphors that blend her own deliciously honest brand of story telling with the perfect amount of heartfelt sensitivity. Her voice is a throwback to a classically romantic jazz scene with hints of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, while remaining true to her own enchanting smokiness.
Her honey-voiced songs about everything from Viking helmets to eager pilots and kissing in libraries have won over the hearts of an increasing number of devoted listeners over the short number of years that indie songstress Sara Lewis has been writing. Based out of New York City, this piano-driven singer/songwriter and performer (at venues such as Rockwood Music Hall, Googie’s Lounge and Sidewalk Cafe) shows incredible promise.
Against a backdrop of suburban New Jersey, Sara first started fiddling around on a piano at around age 6, two years afterwards taking up lessons and joining her first choir. She continued singing and playing for many years onward, teaching herself guitar in high school as well as experimenting with songwriting and starting her own a cappella group with her best friend. Her college years brought her to a tiny liberal arts college in Vermont where she was able to perform often and really focus on songwriting.
In June of 2010 she digitally released her first EP “Birds Without Cages”, which includes three songs recorded in a studio nestled in the woods by one of Joni Mitchell’s personal recording engineers, as well as a sweetly homemade recording of “You Belong To Me”, recorded in Sara’s bathtub. A few months later in October, Sara quietly announced the release of a live album entitled “Believe In It All” – a collection of songs recorded at her senior show at her college. Sara also received third place in American Songwriter’s Amateur Lyric Contest in December 2009.
Sara attributes Regina Spektor, Cat Power and Billie Holiday as some of her biggest influences.
