Laura Bryna

Originating from Mount Airy, Maryland, singer-songwriter Laura Bryna first developed a taste for country music by tuning into the format on radio during repeated road trips to a Washington, D.C., hospital, where her brother spent six months in a coma after a brain aneurysm; those same trips later prompted her sustained work on behalf of the Make a Wish Foundation. She trained in acting, singing, and dancing at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and a senior recital performance earned her a role in the Broadway-bound musical Rasputin, which she reprised on the show’s cast album. After finishing her studies she moved to Nashville, taking music classes at Belmont College while completing internships at Sony Tree Publishing and then Dreamworks Publishing, positions that sharpened her grasp of the music business from the inside. Her strong commitment to the Make a Wish Foundation dovetailed with her signing to Clint Black’s Equity Records label, whose first single from her was the charity-themed song she wrote, “Make a Wish.” Equity released her debut album, Trying to Be Me, in 2008.