Tarryn Aimée

Tarryn Aimée (pronounced “Em- ay”) is a singer-songwriter in the Nashville area who delivers a unique blend of Americana and jazz with pure, smooth vocals. She is a two-time winner in the International Acoustic Music Awards as well as a finalist in the USA Songwriting Competition and the Tennessee Songwriter’s Week. The multi-instrumentalist performs regularly at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville and other music venues, private parties, and festivals in the surrounding areas. She loves to entertain audiences with popular songs from various decades and genres as well as her own unique originals, customizing her set according to the venue and occasion.

Fans and music industry listeners often use words like “timeless” and “classic” to describe much of Tarryn’s original music. Reporter Bob Doerschuk, who has written for Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, Music Row, and more, says, “Most flowers in the garden of song are seasonal. Perennials, like Tarryn Aimée, are much rarer. Seasonals, you see, write for the moment. Perennials endure. That’s why people can still sing along to tunes by Irving Berlin or the Gershwin brothers from a century ago.”

A review by The Midwest Record in 2020 said “Tarryn Aimée is an intimate, organic vocalist that hits it out of the park right from the start… knows just the right way to wrap your ears around her little finger. Sensitive and loaded with the kind of chops talent show contestants could learn a thing or two from, this singing writer is knowledgeable way beyond her years and shares it with us in fine form.”

Tarryn grew up in a musical family in Indiana, singing and performing well-known favorites with her sister and mom by artists such as Olivia Newton John, the Carpenters, Anne Murray and Amy Grant, and they also included some older classics from the 1940’s and 50’s by the likes of Doris Day and the McGuire Sisters in their shows. While studying at Indiana University, she joined the traveling Singing Hoosiers and enjoyed learning timeless tunes by the likes of Indiana composers Hoagie Carmichael and Cole Porter. After transferring to Belmont University in Nashville to follow her love of music, she found herself immersed in a community of songwriters, and even more so once she began working at George Strait’s publishing company upon graduating. This community, along with feedback on her songs from Nashville’s Music Row publishing companies, gave her a strong foundation and inspiration for the craft. Tarryn signed a publishing deal for several years as a staff songwriter with Second City Music Publishing.

Through some of her co-writing friends, the singer-songwriter heard about the Nashville Jazz Workshop and decided to take some classes there as a vocalist as well as jazz guitar lessons. Learning standards from the Great American Songbook expanded her knowledge of chords and added a fresh new direction to the style of songs she wrote for herself as an artist. With an eclectic mix of influences including music by singer-songwriters such as Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, James Taylor, and Norah Jones as well as the jazz standards sung by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, many of Tarryn’s originals could be described as a mixture of both Jazz and Americana. Hit-songwriter and author Corey Lee Barker recently coined Tarryn’s music as “Jazzicana”.

In addition to writing for herself as an artist, Tarryn has enjoyed some success co-writing songs for other artists, such as “I Found Life” that topped the Country-Christian and Bluegrass charts for Tonja Rose in 2021, as well as “Expecting Good Things”, the title cut of Jeff and Shari Easter's Grammy and Dove nominated album and the song they played as their live performance on the Gaither’s “Majesty” Homecoming CD and DVD set filmed in 2010.
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