“ALANA makes the kind of music that slows the world down, the shadows lengthening and the colour fading until the image cracks a little at the edges. Now signed to London’s Chess Club label, the singer/songwriter was discovered entrancing nocturnal audiences of commuters and insomniacs on the platforms and corridors of New York subways, her languorous sound a salve for the city’s fatigues.”

ALANA was born in New Mexico, but grew up in Northern California where she received formal jazz vocal training. Her distinguished taste in bluegrass/gospel music and songwriting was cultivated while attending festivals with her grandparents which formed her decidedly Americana phrasing and lyrical choices.

ALANA caught a bus to New York with only a suitcase and a guitar. She supported herself through subway busking and selling hard copies of her recordings, one of which was bought and taken to London and later shown to an A&R rep. In 2010, ALANA released an EP called The Misuse of Chemistry with Chessclub Records.

The same year she also appeared on BBC6 Radio and started co-writing with The Flight (The Sinner Inside EP), David Etherington and Dee Adams. She stepped out of the music industry for several years, other than an appearance in Always Remember to Dance featured on the Delaware album by Another Sun – a collaboration which led to co-writing opportunities with Henry Binns and Zero 7.

In 2022 she married Michael Darius, the designer for the original iTunes and GarageBand interfaces. Together they launched roses/foundation (🥀.fm).