Dana Lawrence is an up and coming female singer/songwriter from Chicago. Her music interests began at the ripe age of two years old, when she began taking violin lessons. She continued to play for fifteen years, adding piano and percussion to the mix along the way. When she was just fourteen years old, she discovered the guitar and immediately began composing her own songs. Throughout high school she honed and expanded her repertoire, experimenting with numerous incarnations of rock & folk styles, and playing with various groups of musicians. Battles-of-the Bands, coffee shops, and the occasional Chicagoland bar were her main venues until she moved to Colorado Springs to attend college. For three years there, and one year in southern France, she regularly played the local coffee shop and bar circuits, and she also had her first opportunity to record semi-professionally. With a dated demo in her pocket and a confirmed passion for singing and playing the guitar, she returned to Chicago to live the dually-impoverished lifestyle of student and starving musician. While attending graduate school to become an elementary school teacher (as a back up plan, of course) she began to gig regularly, primarily at a bar called Pops for Champagne in Highwood. There, she was able to connect with the Chicago music scene while slowly building a steady and faithful fan base. "Easier" is the artist's first professional studio release. Recorded at Baby Doin' The Jig Productions in Lake Bluff, Illinois, the album is a compilation of six original compositions, and even a live recording of a classic jazz tune sung in French. Produced by the fantabulous and talented Suede, (Lead singer of the turnstyles) the album's stellar cast of musicians have played in bands such as the Smashing Pumpkins, Filter, the Mighty Blue Kings, Peat Moss, and more. Her music, while retaining its folk roots when stripped to each song's base of vocals and acoustic guitar, tends towards pop-rock with heavy blues and jazz influence in full accompaniment. Each song has a slightly different taste to it, all just samples of the expansive buffet of compositional styles Dana has to offer.