Artist description LANA IS A MULTI-TALENTED WRITER, SINGER, AND MUSICIAN!!!! SHE PLAYS ALL THE INSTRUMENTS ON HER SONGS, DOES ALL THE BACK-UP VOICES, AND HER SONGS WILL REACH IN AND TOUCH THE DEEPEST PARTS OF YOUR HEART!

Music Style COUNTRY--SOFT ROCK--EASY LISTENING--FOLK--CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN

Musical Influences BEE GEES, BONNIE RAITT, JEAN CHAPEL, BILL MILLER

Similar Artists BARRY GIBB, KAREN CARPENTER, ANN MURRAY, GLORIA ESTEFAN

Artist History SHE BEGAN PERFORMING AS A TODDLER, WITH FAMOUS PARENTS, SALTY HOLMES AND MATTIE O'NEIL, ON THE GRAND OLE OPRY![MATTIE LATER CHANGED HER NAME TO "JEAN CHAPEL", AND WENT INTO ROCK AND ROLL. SHE BECAME A RENOWNED SONGWRITER! SALTY HAILED FROM THE "PRAIRIE RAMBLERS". THEY WERE THE FAMOUS WESTERN SWING BAND THAT BACKED PATSY MONTANA!.. SHE WROTE HER FIRST SONG LIVE AND ONSTAGE, AT AGE 3...IN FRONT OF A CANADIAN AUDIENCE WHO SHOWED THEIR APPRECIATION BY THROWING MONEY ON THE STAGE! THAT'S WHEN SHE DECIDED WHAT SHE WANTED TO BE!.. HER FIRST PUBLISHED SONG WAS BY OWEN BRADLEY, OF DECCA RECORDS, WHEN SHE WAS 10 YEARS OLD. SHE ALSO HAD SONGS WITH BUDDY KILLAN OF TREE MUSIC AT AGE 11, AND WITH 4-STAR MUSIC IN HER TEENS!.. AT 16, LANA SIGNED EXCLUSIVELY WITH VINTAGE MUSIC PUBLISHERS AND MONUMENT RECORDS, UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF BOB TUBERT. SEVERAL SONGS WERE RELEASED ON THIS LABEL. SHE ALSO RECORDED FOR DOT RECORDS AND MEGA RECORDS DURING HER LATER TEENS AND EARLY TWENTIES... SHE'S HAD SONGS RECORDED BY TOMPALL GLASER, EDDY ARNOLD, LISA FOSTER, THE FOX BROTHERS, NANCY SINATRA, AND HENSEN CARGILL... SHE HAS ALSO WRITTEN EXCLUSIVELY FOR VINTAGE MUSIC, 4-STAR MUSIC, COMBINE MUSIC, FRANK AND NANCY MUSIC, AND THE FIRST LADY MUSIC....ALL OF NASHVILLE... SHE HAS BEEN PRODUCED BY BOB TUBERT, DENNIS LINDE, AND KRIS KRISTOFFERSON... SHE WRITES AND SINGS MANY STYLES OF MUSIC: COUNTRY, FOLK, POP, EASY LISTENING, SOFT ROCK, BLUES, GOSPEL, BLUEGRASS, COTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN AND NOVELTY SONGS. LANA ALSO SINGS BACKGROUND VOCALS, ALL PARTS, INCLUDING BASS!.. SHE PLAYS GUITAR, BASS, MANDOLIN, BANJO, NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE AND PERCUSSION, KEYBOARDS[A LITTLE] AND HARMONICA... SHE WRITES POETRY, VIDEO SCRIPTS, SHORT STORIES, AND IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON HER FIRST FILM SCRIPT!.. HER OTHER TALENTS INCLUDE: DRAWING, PAINTING, MINITURE CLAY SCULPTING, BONE CARVING, JEWELRY MAKING, NATIVE AMERICAN CRAFTS, GREETING CARD MAKING, AND MANY OTHER TYPES OF CRAFTS! SHE ALSO DOES VOICES AND ACCENTS AND WANTS TO VENTURE INTO DOING THEM FOR ANIMATION... "

Group Members LANA DOES ALL THE VOCALS AND INSTRUMENTATION ON HER SONGS!!!

Instruments LANA PLAYS ALL INSTRUMENTS YOU HEAR IN HER SONGS!

Albums HEART SONGS and LITTLE FAWN'S SONGS

Additional Info lanachapel@msn.com

Location PORT ORANGE, Florida - USA

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