Sarah Solovay

Sarah Solovay (born March 30, 1994) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who opened for John Mayer and Train on Mayer's "Battle Studies World Tour" in Scranton, PA in July 2010. Solovay was also featured on the 90210 soundtrack, released in the fall of 2009. She has released 3 studio EPs and several digital singles. Solovay graduated from Yale University in 2016, where she was an American Studies major with a focus on Audio and Video Performance Culture. She moved back to New York City to write and record her third studio EP. On February 17, 2017, she released "Rough Draft," the first single off the EP. It was put in rotation on Sirius XM The Pulse's show, "Train Tracks," and added to several Apple Music playlists, including "Future Hits" and "Breaking Pop." The second single, "Trick Me" was released on April 21. Within days it was added to Spotify's Global Viral, US Viral 50 and New Music Friday Turkey's playlists along with placed in rotation on Sirius XM The Pulse's "Train Tracks" show. Solovay began her career in 2008, when she uploaded several songs from what would become The Gone EP to her MySpace page. Through word of mouth, the songs spread, and soon gathered hundreds of thousands of plays. This traction brought her to the attention of the New York music industry: In 2008, Solovay's "Gone" won the New York Songwriters Circle "Young Songwriters Award" and she was a contestant in Radio Disney's "Next Big Thing" contest. Also in 2008, Solovay performed at The CMJ Festival on October 22, 2008 which took place at The Canal Room in New York City. In 2009, she was a finalist in the International Songwriter's Competition. That same year, she performed at a benefit for the Light of Day Foundation.In October 2010, Solovay and her song "Gone" were included on the list of entries to be nominated for a 2011 Grammy Award in the "Song of the Year" and "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" categories. In October 2009, her song "Hearts Collide" was selected to be on the 90210 soundtrack, released by CBS. Her song, "Flaws and All" was featured in Joe Dante's film, "The Hole." In June 2010, her song, "Gone" was featured in Childrens Hospital and the NBC TV Show "Outlaw" in the Fall, 2010. In 2011, her songs, "You'll Never Know," "Gone" and "Delight" were licensed for use on MTV "[1]", and her song "All She Could Be" was licensed for ABC's "The Lying Game" in the August 22 episode. Additionally, her song "All She Could Be" was selected to air on the Teen Vogue feature of Dakota Fanning. During the summer of 2011, Solovay was profiled by The New York Times for being a musician balancing school work. In early 2012, Solovay decided to focus primarily on her education and enroll at Yale University. During her time in college, she was named as one of ten finalists in the 2013 Emerging Artist Competition, a partnership between Hitlab and The Recording Academy. In July, 2014, "Gone" and "All She Could Be" were included on the soundtrack for the Indie Film, "Crazy Bitches," released in June, 2014.