Singer/songwriter Sara Stearman is the newest artist to come under the Now Hear This umbrella. Effective immediately, management, promotions, and booking services are underway on her behalf.
“After having met with her and continued our dialogue about working together, I’m pleased to see this become official,” NHT President Bruce Wawrzyniak said. “In getting to know about Sara, she has certainly accomplished quite a bit already in her young career. Our goal, of course, is to build from that and help in growing where she is headed musically.”
A 19-year old resident of Alabama, Stearman is primarily a country artist and began (guitar and vocals) at the age of just ten years old.
“I love music. It’s a passion,” she says.
This past November at the prestigious Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival, she won a Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) scholarship. More recently, she was invited to Nashville by a 2013 Oscar award contending (Best Original Song) songwriter to sing a few songs in the studio.
Stearman’s talent has already been noticed by the media in her area. 95 KSJ in Mobile plays her music on Sundays, and the FOX-TV affiliate there had her on to perform one of her original songs. She has been in the newspaper as well (Mobile Register).
It’s little surprise that her talent has gotten such attention. At age 15 she had been given a scholarship for the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she went for seven weeks in 2008. Very shortly thereafter, back in Mobile, she won the BayFest Scholarship, being chosen as one of only a few winners out of hundreds of entrants.
She has been performing at various venues in her area, and, while it wasn’t intended for commercial release, did record a handful of original songs two years ago at a studio in Mobile. Although she has a laser focus on where she wants to end up, her approach remains unselfish.
“I want to help people with my music,” she explains. “I definitely want to be a singer/songwriter and help put the music together. But I just want, say, people who can’t express themselves, to get to hear my songs and put those thoughts down on paper, and maybe take a therapeutic approach. People who are going through something, I want them to know they’re not the only ones going through that – whether painful or happy.”
A good attitude for someone already off to a great start.