Rain Perry | |
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Background information | |
Born | November 9, 1966 Hollywood, California, US |
Genres | folk-rock |
Labels | Precipitous Records |
Rain Perry (born November 9, 1966) is an American folk-rock singer-songwriter. She has released six albums on her own label, Precipitous Records.[1] Her song "Beautiful Tree" was the theme song for the CW Network series Life Unexpected. "Yosemite," from her debut album Balance, won the Grand Prize (Folk Division) in the 2000 John Lennon Songwriting Contest and was recorded by Tom Russell and Nanci Griffith. She wrote and performed a theatrical memoir and audio drama Cinderblock Bookshelves: A Guide for Children of Fame-Obsessed Bohemian Nomads and is the director of the documentary The Shopkeeper, about the impact of the streaming economy on musicians, through the story of Austin music producer Mark Hallman.[2]
She is currently developing a theatrical piece called This is Water, with a title inspired by the essay This Is Water by David Foster Wallace, about coming to terms with growing up White in America.[3]