Lizzie West was named Artist of the Year by AOL and Entertainment Weekly in 2003 with her Warner Bros. release of Holy Road: Freedom Songs. She has had her work used extensively in film (Secretary starring James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhall) and T.V. (2007, 2008: Democracy Now!,  The L Word, 2003: Dawson’s Creek, Alias, Third Watch, etc) and was featured singing her song “Holy Road” in a national ad campaign directed by Spike Lee. Lizzie has also performed the National Anthem in Madison Square Garden and toured as an opener for artists such as Chris Isaak, as well as headlined her own national tours.

“West writes disarming melodies, wraps her songs in beautiful, spare arrangements, and sings them with a beguiling voice.”
- No Depression

Lizzie West was born in NYC, July 21st, 1973. While she was in the womb, her mother Louise, lunched regularly with Joseph Campbell and in early childhood, Louise read her William Blake and TS Elliot. Lizzie watched her mother produce Broadway shows and as a child, she entertained her parent's friends at their NYC parties, including such legends as Charlie Strauss and Gregory Hines. Between 1996 - 1999, Lizzie found her adult voice and began recording her own songs.

In 2000, Lizzie signed to Warner Bros. Records. While she was with Warner Bros, Lizzie was censored four times. When the label would not release her song "19 Miles To Baghdad," she pushed to release the song and was "let go" by the label. Lizzie and a few of her "fans" then released "19 Miles To Baghdad" as a free download. Since then, Democracy Now! has made the song an peace anthem. From 2003-2006 Lizzie released her international debut, lost both of her parents to cancer, left the major label and met her Baba. In 2006, with the help of Baba, the duo released I Pledge Allegiance To Myself on a social justice label called Appleseed Records. The album was dedicated to her mother.

Lizzie is currently writing a serial novel called Re*membering Now on which her and Baba's interactive folk opera, The Tumbleweed Cabaret is based. She has driven across America 11 times, written over 45 art books of research on "creating reality" and is currently studying flight.

Lizzie blogs at: http://travelingtheholyroad.blogspot.com