Name	Tracy Bonham
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Date of Birth	March 16, 1967
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Raised in Eugene, Oregon, Bonham began singing at age 5 and playing the violin at 9. She received a full scholarship to the University of Southern California for violin, but she eventually transferred to Berklee College of Music to study voice instead. She started writing songs in 1994 after moving to Boston. Her first EP, the Liverpool Sessions, won best single in the Boston Phoenix reader's poll in 1995 for the song "The One". In 1996, her major label debut The Burdens of Being Upright went gold, spawning the hit single "Mother Mother", and leading to a pair of Grammy nominations. The follow-up, Down Here, was released in 2000 and since that time she’s continued her career, playing her music around the country.

When asked about the maturation of her songwriting, Bonham replies, “I think I stopped trying to prove so much to people. I went inward and realized that being honest and not being so veiled and cryptic can actually touch more people. In the past, I wanted to be deep, but then I went too far and was over-thinking everything. Now I just write from the heart.”