Erin Hill

Erin Hill is an American harpist, singer, and actress based in New York City and Louisville, Kentucky. Her musical performances have ranged from pop and rock, psychedelic and science fiction to opera, jazz, and Celtic. Hill's Celtic album hit #1 on the Billboard World Music Chart. She has played and sung with Kanye West, Cyndi Lauper, moby, Sinead O’Connor, Enya, a-ha, Jewel, Josh Groban, and for Serena Williams, Randy Newman, Bill Murray, Carl Icahn, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, and for royalty.The Los Angeles record label Cleopatra Records has released three of Hill’s albums, starting with Harp Town in 2016. Harp Town features Hill’s harp and voice arrangements of songs by artists such as Rihanna, Radiohead, The Beatles, Sinatra, Leonard Cohen, Edith Piaf, Adele, Lady Gaga, Smashing Pumpkins, Kansas, Alicia Keys, Roxy Music, and Kate Bush. Cleopatra also released Hill’s album Christmas Harp, and her album of originals, Girl Inventor. As an actress, she has appeared on Broadway, film, and television, most notably as the Pretty White Girl Who Sings Dave’s Thoughts on Comedy Central’s Chappelle's Show. She originated the roles of Kate Mullins in Titanic on Broadway, and of Lulu in the Sam Mendes/Rob Marshall revival of Cabaret. She is an actor, composer and screenwriter in the film Clear Blue Tuesday, about which the New York Times said: "Erin Hill, as a giddy, harp-playing Trekker, stands out… The best and funniest scene in the film is Ms. Hill's". Hill is a regular performer at Dragon Con in Atlanta, and her "Lookout, Science" and "Giant Mushrooms" music videos were featured in the Dragon Con Independent Film Festival. USA Today premiered her sci-fi music video "Lookout, Science". Her westie dog MacLeod is a frequent co-star in her music videos. Hill was featured in an HBO Game of Thrones promo, playing the Game of Thrones theme on her harp. She won an Independent Music Award for her song "Stun," from her Girl Inventor album. and she did Original Music and Sound Design for the Drama Desk Award-nominated That Play: a Solo Macbeth. Hill is also the voice and harp behind Tafne, a central character in the Android video game The Legacy of Barubash. Hill has also played her harp several years for the US Open Tennis Championships in the exclusive Hospitality Pavilion. Newsday has called her "the dangerously enjoyable Erin Hill."