Heidi Berry’s songs and vocal style are in the the tradition of the
70’s/80’s singer-songwriter. Recent parallels have been sited as Beth
Orton and David Gray. Stylistically her work has ranged from acoustic
folk-based sounds to harder-edged electric guitar. Her newest work is
based around piano and layered vocals.

Heidi was born in Boston, USA and brought up in London, England in the
1970’s. She is, by her own admission, “always somewhere between two
countries”. She acheived a degree in Fine Art at Hornsey School of Art
and was a painter and printmaker for several years before deciding her
real calling was music.

Her first solo release came in the form of a mini-album on Creation
Records: Firefly (1987). The full-length Below The Waves was released
in 1989. She toured the UK and Europe with label mates Primal Scream
and appeared at the Albert Hall with The Violent Femmes.

Her introduction to the 4AD label came in 1991, when she featured on
This Mortal Coil’s third album, Blood, singing a Rodney Crowell song,
‘Til I Gain Control. She then went on to release 3 solo albums under
the 4AD banner: Love (1991), Heidi Berry (1993), and Miracle (1996).
A fourth 4AD album, the retrospective Pomegranate – An Anthology was
released in 2001. As a 4AD artist, Heidi toured extensively in the UK,
Europe and the USA. Her songs have appeared on episodes of Dawson’s
Creek and Baywatch. She has also composed soundtracks for two BBC
television documentaries.

Last year, Heidi sent herself “back to school” and enrolled on the
songwriting course run by Ray Davies at The Arvon Foundation. She found
this experience, “renewing, inspiring and the hardest work I’ve ever
done”. The result is, Heidi is currently recording a collection of new
songs. She says, “I’ve got about 40 songs now. How and when they will
be released, I haven’t the faintest idea. I just know I need to do this
with all my heart.”

Heidi Berry teaches Songwriting and Live Performance at the Brighton
Institute of Modern Music. She lives on the south coast of England with
her partner and a cranky black cat.