Suzanna Choffel

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Suzanna Choffel (born March 4, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter and actress who has appeared on national television and film.

Her music has been described as "a unique sound equal parts Beat poetry, smoky soul grooves, and indie-pop eccentricity," she has described.

Early life

Choffel's name is a spin on Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" song. She was born in Austin, Texas, into a music-loving family and began writing songs at a young age. Her earliest compositions were simple voice-and-keyboard pop pieces on which she portrayed herself on a karaoke machine.

Choffel and her mother and two sisters were born in the suburbs, first to The Drag and then to South Austin, where she spent her formative years.

Choffel performed at the Saxon Pub, Broken Spoke, and Continental Club by age 14, joining Red-Headed Stepchild and performing her first club shows. At 17 she was performing in Bonnie Raitt and Bessie Smith's blues jams downtown at Babe's on Sixth Street. After hearing Patty Griffin perform at the Cactus Cafe and wanted to make those funky, perceptive sounds that she and Peter Tosh made, she learned how to play guitar.

She studied at Southwest Texas State University, joining the Humblebums, which opened in 1999 for the Scabs featuring frontman Bob Schneider at Antone's Blues Club, and was later hired by Liquid Stereo Project, a seven-piece hip hop/jazz fusion band for which Choffel became the primary songwriter, exploring new rhythmic phrasing, rapping, and recording. After two years as Professor Macklemore, she returned to College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design) to study contemporary music and frequently performed in hip hop freestyles on campus, most notably with rapper Ben Haggerty.

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Music career

Choffel returned to Austin in 2003 to pursue music as a career and created a hybrid musical style by combining pop, soul, jazz, and world elements. Shudders & Rings, her first album, was released in 2006 following an immersive trip to Brazil. The album contained the regional hit "Hey Mister," which was licensed for release on the Austin Music Vol. in 2008. Trish Murphy and Will Sexton appear on the 7 Compilation CD, which is also on display in the United States, and it was timed to coincide with a US tour, her first as a bandleader. In the International Songwriting Competition AAA category, "Hey Mister" came in second place.

Choffel's name appeared on the front of The Austin Chronicle's "The Next Fun Fearless Female Rock Star" campaign in November 2008, a remark on her semi-finalist finish in Cosmopolitan's StarLaunchTM campaign following her Grand Prize victory in the Nationwide FameCast Competition. At the 2009 Austin Music Awards, she was named "Best Indie Band" for the official kick-off performance at the annual South By Southwest music festival. Choffel "impressed me more than any I've encountered here with a distinct sound equal parts Beat poetry, smoky soul grooves, and indie-pop eccentricity, according to Chicago Sun-Times critic Jim DeRogatis. With a hint of Tex-Mex seasoning, think Feist and Erykah Badu.

Choffel appeared at the CMJ Music Marathon in 2008, South By Southwest (2009–2012), and the Voodoo Experience festival in 2009.

Choffel began collaborating with producer Danny Reisch (White Denim, Bright Light Social Hour) on her second album in late 2009 after her performance of the song "Archer" was picked up by Dell for a Windows 7 commercial. In 2011, Choffel released Steady Eye Shaky Bow independently. Davd Garza, Michael Kingcaid, Brad Houser, and Big Sam's Funky Nation lending horns on the album's single, "Raincloud," which received regional exposure. The album received critical acclaim for its unique blend of genres and Choffel's commanding voice. "A record of shimmering soul and perssive mental massage in which desires to be played from start to finish," Michael Corcoran of the Austin American-Statesman called it "a work of shimmering soul and perceptive mental massage that demands to be played from beginning to finish."

Choffel appeared at the Austin City Limits Music Festival in 2011, and she toured extensively to support the album, including U.S. tours with Jacob Jeffries Band in 2012 and Wakey!Wakey! In early 2013, the company was founded in early 2013. She presented a bill with Emeli Sandé and Skylar Grey at the Key Club Los Angeles in February 2013.

In 2012, the track "Stumble" received third place in the International Songwriting Competition's performance category. In the 2012 Independent Music Awards' singer-songwriter competition, Steady Eye Shaky Bow received Best Album. In 2013, Choffel re-released the album, renamed Archer, with "Golden Fires" as a bonus track on Red Parlor Records. She toured France in early 2014 and received raves.

Choffel joined the band Spanish Gold in June 2014 as a keyboardist and backup singer for the remainder of the band's national tour.

Choffel moved back to Austin after releasing her album, Hello Goodbye in 2017. She hosts a daily radio slot for alternative radio station Sun Radio in what she describes on the station's website as, "the best day job ever."

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