Gwen Sebastian - "Suitcase"

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Gwen Sebastian grew up on a cattle ranch in North Dakota. Along with being farmers & ranchers, her parents were in a local band and she began performing with them at an early age. After high school, Gwen continued her education, enrolling in nursing school, but her exposure to music instilled a lifelong dream of singing, songwriting and performing and gave her the courage to pack up her car and move to Nashville, TN.

In Nashville, Gwen wanted to jump in head first, but instead found herself “paying the bills” as a property manager at a real estate company. Her drive to perform music never diminished, so she quit her day job and began performing at songwriter’s nights around Nashville, including the famous Blue Bird Cafe and the Wildhorse Saloon. While she loved the music scene of Nashville, she felt the urge to tour the country with her own band and performed over 250 days per year at bars, fairs and festivals, opening for artists such as Taylor Swift, Sugarland and Dierks Bentley.

After ten years of extensive touring, she decided to roll the dice and auditioned for Season 2 of NBC’s ‘The Voice’. Three big red chairs turned and she chose Blake Shelton as her coach. Along with being a part of his Voice team, Shelton asked Gwen to become a part of his band and tour alongside him. It was with Shelton that she had her first number one song, “My Eyes.”

During that season of ‘The Voice’, Gwen met Miranda Lambert, who was a mentor on the show and asked Gwen to open for her on the ‘Locked and Re-loaded’ tour. “The Voice definitely catapulted my career and it was very validating”, she explains. She also credits Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert with helping her along the way and “can’t thank them enough.” Gwen currently tours with Lambert as a member of her band and has co-written three songs on Lambert’s highly acclaimed album, ‘The Weight of These Wings’.

Sebastian has worked hard in pursuit of her dreams, and now that they’re in sight she has no intention of stopping. She hopes to one day earn the level of respect afforded her heroes, artists like Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt and Sheryl Crow. “So far, it’s pretty darn cool what’s happened in my life,” she says. “But I definitely have some big goals.” She won’t settle for less.

Current Location: Nashville, TN
Hometown: Hebron, ND

Official: https://www.gwensebastian.com/
Record Label: Flying Island Entertainment

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