Susie Suh is a Korean-American adult alternative

Adult album alternative

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/folk-rock singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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. Her music is often compared to Fiona Apple

Fiona Apple

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, Sarah McLachlan

Sarah McLachlan

Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...

, and Aimee Mann

Aimee Mann

Aimee Mann is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist.-Early life:Aimee Mann grew up in Bon Air, Virginia, graduated from Open High School in 1978 and attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the Young Snakes...

. Suh cites Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

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 and Beth Gibbons

Beth Gibbons

Beth Gibbons is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist for the iconic British band Portishead.-Early life:...

 among her influences.^[]

Her debut album, Susie Suh

Susie Suh (album)

Susie Suh is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Susie Suh. It was released on Epic Records in 2005.-Track listing:#"Won't You Come Again" – 3:48#"Your Battlefield" – 4:07#"Shell" – 4:29#"Harmony" – 3:54...

, was produced by Glen Ballard

Glen Ballard

Glen Ballard is an American songwriter and record producer, best known for co-writing and producing Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill , which won Grammy Award for "Best Rock Album", and "Album of the Year" amongst others, and is ranked by the Rolling Stone amongst The 500 Greatest Albums of...

 and released on Epic Records

Epic Records

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 in 2005. From that album, 5 songs have been used on the TV series One Tree Hill

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, among them Recognition and Light On My Shoulder.

"Shell," from her self-titled release, was featured on the soundtrack

Soundtrack

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 of the 2005 film Must Love Dogs

Must Love Dogs

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. A one minute crop of it was bundled with Sony Ericsson W800

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 mobile phones.

Following her debut, Suh released The Bakman Tapes, Pt. 1 - EP, 3 songs in 2009 with The Bakman Tapes, Pt. 2 - EP being released in 2010.

She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy

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 and Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

.

Discography

• Susie Suh
  Susie Suh (album)
  Susie Suh is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Susie Suh. It was released on Epic Records in 2005.-Track listing:#"Won't You Come Again" – 3:48#"Your Battlefield" – 4:07#"Shell" – 4:29#"Harmony" – 3:54...
  
  (2005)
• "The Bakman Tapes, Pt. 1 - EP" (2009)
  • Feather In The Wind - 4:01
  • Good Times - 4:25
  • Why - 4:17

• "The Bakman Tapes"(2010)
  • 1.Feather in the Wind
  • 2.Good Times
  • 3.Why
  • 4.In the Moonlight
  • 5.Winter
  • 6.Love is on the way
  • 7.Love Love Love
  • 8.I do
  • 9.Canopy

External links

• Official website