Erin Ivey

An Austin-based singer and songwriter whose understated vocals carry a jazz inflection, Erin Ivey blends folk, Americana, and adult-alternative pop into her carefully crafted material. After issuing her debut, The 11th Floor, in 2007, she followed with the 2011 release Broken Gold, which earned her Texas Music Magazine’s Artist of the Year title. Her fifth studio album, Solace in the Wild, appeared in 2021.

She spent her early years at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis before relocating to Austin as a teenager to enroll at the University of Texas. Following graduation she held positions in corporate sales and project management, devoting her free hours to music. In 2005 a week-long music lab introduced her to digital audio workstations, an encounter that sparked an enduring interest in the tools. She finished her first album, the self-released The 11th Floor, in Portland in 2007; the project featured her grandmother, a classically trained singer who had shaped her initial musical outlook.

Returning to Texas, she issued the Sweet Little EP in 2008. Songs from her second full-length, the widely praised Broken Gold of 2011, later surfaced on film soundtracks and programs such as Suits and The Client List. In 2012 she claimed the Discoveries Songwriting Contest prize, and the following year she released Dreamy Weather. Her fourth studio effort, 2014’s Whisper of the Moon, was recorded in partnership with the Tosca String Quartet and contained material aimed at younger listeners, among them lullabies and fairy tales. She contributed to the music department of the 2016 western 6 Bullets to Hell, while Austin-based guitarist Chuck Pinnell produced her next studio album, Solace in the Wild, which contained nine original compositions together with a rendition of Irving Berlin’s “Blue Skies.”