On Stage 8/16- LaTresa & The Signal

Music has always been LaTresa’s first love. She began performing professionally in high school with a series of bands. Her father, a singer/songwriter Church of Christ minister, moved the family around the heart of Dixie a lot. Hers was, at times, a hard scrabble childhood, as her parents struggled to put food on the table and clothing on their backs. Along the way she soaked up influences from the Mississippi Delta to Memphis to the Bluegrass of Kentucky and beyond.

Her music combines influences from the many places her youth has taken her and the many lessons her children Joshua and Olivia have taught her. She connects, delighting audiences with solid professional performances. She’s spent four years on Music Row, soaking up its songwriting expertise and production sounds.

Her first Nashville CD Free Spirit features her material backed by some of the finest pickers in the Southeast. It has received excellent reviews. Dave Higgs, producer and host of syndicated radio’s Bluegrass Breakdown, says it’s a “project chock full of interesting tunes, great arrangements, and fine picking, all propelled by LaTresa’s unforgettable emotive and shimmering voice… great stuff.”

LaTresa describes her own music as, “Themes most of us can relate to on some level…sex, babies, Jesus and sweet potato pie.”

LaTresa hit the ground performing in Tennessee, starting the day she relocated from Kentucky, doing solo shots with her Martin guitar or taking on larger audiences with her exceptional band, the Signal. In their last year-and-a-half they have built fan bases from the coasts of Florida to California through the Midwest and northward to Wisconsin and Minnesota. LaTresa is a hard worker and a world-class entertainer. Her roots run deep, her music is effective, her personality is magnetic, her influence is powerful and the talented and committed members of her band compliment her perfectly. This is a winning combination destined to move forward to bigger and better things.