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"I started singing from the moment I was born, in Houston, Texas, on January 14th, 1991. My fingers have been on the keys since my feet were on the ground. It's always been something that came naturally. When I was a toddler, I'd play along on the piano with my dad on the right side of the piano, the "high keys", harmonizing with the melody. Then my brother and I started making up songs on the piano together as kids. The two of us would write songs, not one of which was ever written down, each taking turns with our own improv verses and what not. I eventually I started taking lessons, when I was 5. When I was 6, I took an interest in violin, and at 7, went on to take lessons until we moved away from Houston.
My family has played a huge roll in my life. We played instruments together in a lot of different churches all over North America when I was younger. As a family we are all very talented. The gift for music stretches back generations ago (my great-grand father Leslie Lane and John Lane played with the Bob Wills before he got big), and is still reaching young ones in the family. While home-schooling, taught by my mother, I had excelled enough at my studies to skip 2nd grade, and I did so. My love for literature and English has always been a driving force for my writing. I didn't put music and words together in song-writing for another year. At 11, I began writing songs on the piano, continuing shortly after to dabbling on the guitar.
In 2005 my dad asked the owner of Mundt Music in Tyler, Texas where we might find a good recording studio (by then I'd already written around 150 songs) and Mr. Mundt suggested Rosewood Studios.
Since then I've recorded six sets of songs at Rosewood Studios in Tyler, Texas. Gary and Greg, who have recorded a broad list of people ranging from LeeAnn Rimes, Bob Wills Texas Playboys, to New Found Glory, have in many ways taken me under their caring wings, and helped to provide things that I couldn't afford. The first time I recorded there in February of 2005, they said before I began recording, "we aren't going to tell you anything that's not true." After recording, they told me that in all their years of being in the business, they'd never heard anything like me.
Around the summer of 2006, I formed together with a band, and we were named Parlour. We played together on a couple studio sesions, including one in Tyler at Rosewood Studios and the other by Justin Jinkins in Rusk, Texas. We got our name from the room we practiced in, the parlor. Our chemistry was great, but our lives eventually lead us all in different directions. I am still hopeful that we might get back together later in life, but the subject is mostly up in the air. Another highlight of '06 was singing "The Wedding Song" with Charlie Robison, and meeting the rest of his band members and crew.
My family and I moved to Austin in May of 2007, in hopes of head starting my future. I enjoyed the experience I obtained by playing open-mics in this city, as well as meeting the people I've met through it. But I had yet to experience the level of sophistication I found upon recording in Nashville in late November. Through close friends of the family, I was given the opportunity to record my 2nd mixed demo in Nashville, Tennessee at The Parlor Studio with studio musicians. Over that week I met and came to know many people who changed the way that I look at the music business. While I had the time of my life during the few days of being in the studio there, I am fully ready to begin work on a debut album and to begin traveling and singing. I believe that performing my songs for people is my purpose in life thus far, and plan on continuing writing and working on my songs. I am also figuring out this maze of a keyboard. Some say that I have an eye for photography because I've taken most of my own pictures over the years, but I'd say it's just another passion of mine.
Currently my projects are very focused on building towards growing more of a fanbase as well as making a change in those people's lives. Moving forward is in my top priorities. Slowly but surely, evolving day by day."
-Hannah McLendon
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