Biography
Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Debra Davis has placed her literate compositions across multiple television series such as Dawson's Creek, Any Day Now, Beyond Chance, and Grapevine. Four additional tracks appeared in the Kellie Martin vehicle All You Need and the Quincy Jones-produced film Smokers, while she served as co-host of the KDOC-TV variety program CinemAttractions.
Raised in the suburbs of southern California's Orange County, Davis first appeared onstage at age five by performing three songs at a Van de Kamp convention. She later sang with an Andrews Sisters-like vocal group, an a cappella quartet, and assorted rock bands before forming her own ensemble, the Band of Gold.
After earning a bachelor's degree in journalism with a focus on women's studies from Cal State Northbridge, Davis sustained her emphasis on thoughtful writing through an angel story-writing contest she co-sponsored with the national literacy program RIF; the project yielded the published book An Angel in My Life and its accompanying single.
Her two albums, Uninvited Guests in 1995 and Angels in the Attic in 1998, were produced by Dave Beyer, drummer for Melissa Etheridge, with Mark Cross—who had previously overseen recordings by Sheryl Crow and Shelby Lynne—sharing production duties on three tracks from the second album. Uninvited Guests reached the 22nd position on Gavin's Americana chart. Propelled by the placement of “The Way Things Used to Be” and the title track on Dawson's Creek episodes, Angels in the Attic sold more than 12,000 copies; its first single, “Where Does It Hurt?,” became a theme song for the national teen organization Stop the Violence/Face the Music.
Raised in the suburbs of southern California's Orange County, Davis first appeared onstage at age five by performing three songs at a Van de Kamp convention. She later sang with an Andrews Sisters-like vocal group, an a cappella quartet, and assorted rock bands before forming her own ensemble, the Band of Gold.
After earning a bachelor's degree in journalism with a focus on women's studies from Cal State Northbridge, Davis sustained her emphasis on thoughtful writing through an angel story-writing contest she co-sponsored with the national literacy program RIF; the project yielded the published book An Angel in My Life and its accompanying single.
Her two albums, Uninvited Guests in 1995 and Angels in the Attic in 1998, were produced by Dave Beyer, drummer for Melissa Etheridge, with Mark Cross—who had previously overseen recordings by Sheryl Crow and Shelby Lynne—sharing production duties on three tracks from the second album. Uninvited Guests reached the 22nd position on Gavin's Americana chart. Propelled by the placement of “The Way Things Used to Be” and the title track on Dawson's Creek episodes, Angels in the Attic sold more than 12,000 copies; its first single, “Where Does It Hurt?,” became a theme song for the national teen organization Stop the Violence/Face the Music.
Albums
Singles
