Abra Moore

Abra Moore, who writes and performs her own material, first began putting songs together at age six and later studied piano during her teenage years in New York. She spent time playing small venues along Britain’s coast and busking on the streets of Paris before enrolling at the University of Hawaii, where she helped form Poi Dog Pondering as one of its founding members in 1986. Even though the group later signed with Columbia and developed a devoted cult audience, Moore exited in the early 1990s to focus on solo work. Her first album, the intimate folk-pop set Sing, surfaced on Bohemia Beat in 1995. After moving to Arista Austin she delivered Strangest Places in 1997, an album whose sharper edges drew closer to contemporary alternative rock. She also appeared occasionally as an actress, most memorably in Richard Linklater’s 1991 indie film Slacker. Five years after that second record she signed with J Records and released No Fear. Everything Changed, her first album for Koch, arrived in 2004 and was followed three years later by On the Way.