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Hometown: Highland Park, IL
Website: www.facebook.com
Sounds Like: Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Ani DiFranco, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Janis Joplin
Genre: Singer Songwriter
Dana Lawrence is a female solo performing and recording artist from the Chicagoland area with over 40 years experience in music.
Her musical style is acoustic, alternative and traditional rock, folk, blues and pop songs on a Breedlove guitar, with a TC-Helicon VoiceLive component for live harmonies in real time. Live repertoire includes original Dana Lawrence songs, and cover tunes from the 50s up through Modern Day.
Dana Lawrence Music Live Serenades, available for private and corporate events.
“Dana Lawrence Gillis is a local treasure, an amazing female rock voice, a great entertainer, an awesome songwriter... and a solid human. What more could you ask for?”
GRAMMY considered Producer/Musician, Darwin Records - Derrick Suede Stout
"'I loved music when I was young, and I loved school just as much,' Lawrence Gillis says. The sound of a guitar — specifically her father’s 1960 Martin Classical guitar — struck a visceral chord with her and relegated classical violin to former instrument. The student in her wanted to learn to play guitar. The poet in her wanted to write songs..."
Bill McLean - Daily North Shore
"Sporting Woody Allen glasses and Chuck Taylor gym shoes, singer Dana Lawrence Gillis pulls listeners in with a dazzling smile and heartfelt lyrics, driven by blazing riffs on her acoustic guitar..."
Denys Bucksten - Chicago Tribune
