Biography
Patricia Bahia, a pop performer recognized for crafting motivational and optimistic material, had pursued music throughout her life until a cancer diagnosis in 2003 prompted her to abandon her legal career and focus instead on composing and recording. She issued an initial EP in 2010, then delivered her first full album, Save Your Heart, in 2015. The following year she launched the duo 7th & Hope with Betty Lawrence, achieving rapid licensing success for numbers including “What You Waiting For?” and “Luh, Luh, Love It” in screen and advertising contexts.
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Patricia Bahia Nieuwenhuizen studied dance, piano, and voice while also playing clarinet and joining choirs as a child. A founding member of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, she supplied backing vocals on Linda Ronstadt’s 1989 release Cry Like a Rainstorm - Howl Like the Wind. After finishing an honors program at the University of Texas at Austin she attended UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, and while practicing as a Bay Area attorney she sang jazz in the evenings, holding a residency at Café Claude.
The 2003 diagnosis encouraged Bahia to begin writing songs. She left law, returned to the piano, took up guitar, and started performing locally with an emphasis on uplifting themes. Dream Songs Records put out her EP Long Road Home in 2010. While preparing her debut album she co-wrote several tracks for Sleep Machine that were placed on ABC’s Quantico and TV Land’s Younger. Her self-released Save Your Heart appeared in late 2015.
She joined British singer/songwriter Betty Lawrence to form 7th & Hope, a project that placed numerous songs in films, television series, and commercials, among them installments of MTV’s Teen Mom franchise. In 2018 she co-wrote two pieces featured in the film The Price of Silence, and beginning in 2019 multiple 7th & Hope tracks appeared in Netflix’s Selling Sunset. During this period she earned a Master of Music in Commercial Music from California State University and worked as a singing and songwriting coach while also teaching voice and music business at the university level. Bahia received the Grand Prize at the Peace Song Awards and collected her fifth and sixth Positive Music Awards in 2020.
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Patricia Bahia Nieuwenhuizen studied dance, piano, and voice while also playing clarinet and joining choirs as a child. A founding member of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, she supplied backing vocals on Linda Ronstadt’s 1989 release Cry Like a Rainstorm - Howl Like the Wind. After finishing an honors program at the University of Texas at Austin she attended UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, and while practicing as a Bay Area attorney she sang jazz in the evenings, holding a residency at Café Claude.
The 2003 diagnosis encouraged Bahia to begin writing songs. She left law, returned to the piano, took up guitar, and started performing locally with an emphasis on uplifting themes. Dream Songs Records put out her EP Long Road Home in 2010. While preparing her debut album she co-wrote several tracks for Sleep Machine that were placed on ABC’s Quantico and TV Land’s Younger. Her self-released Save Your Heart appeared in late 2015.
She joined British singer/songwriter Betty Lawrence to form 7th & Hope, a project that placed numerous songs in films, television series, and commercials, among them installments of MTV’s Teen Mom franchise. In 2018 she co-wrote two pieces featured in the film The Price of Silence, and beginning in 2019 multiple 7th & Hope tracks appeared in Netflix’s Selling Sunset. During this period she earned a Master of Music in Commercial Music from California State University and worked as a singing and songwriting coach while also teaching voice and music business at the university level. Bahia received the Grand Prize at the Peace Song Awards and collected her fifth and sixth Positive Music Awards in 2020.
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