Sarah Jarosz

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Sarah Jarosz 2014 in San Francisco
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Song up in Her Head
  US 158 02/06/2010 (1 week)
Follow me down
  US 98 06/04/2011 (2 weeks)
Build Me Up from the Bones
  US 101 10/12/2013 (1 week)
Undercurrent
  US 117 07/09/2016 (1 week)

Sarah Jarosz (born May 23, 1991 in Austin , Texas ) is a singer-songwriter of traditional American music.

Career

Jarosz played the mandolin when she was 10 and when she was 12 she performed with Ricky Skaggs and David Grisman . Furthermore, it also plays bluegrass - banjo and guitar. At the age of 16 she signed a recording deal with Sugar Hill Records and two years later her debut album Song Up was released in Her Head . The album with almost exclusively self-written songs was praised by the critics and conquered number 1 on the bluegrass album charts. It also made it into the official album charts . She received a Grammy nomination for the instrumental Mansinneedof . In the same year she enrolled at the New England Conservatory of Music and completed a degree in contemporary vocal improvisation.

She released her second album Follow Me Down in 2011. It was even more folk -oriented and reached a top 5 position in both the bluegrass and folk charts. The album itself was nominated at the Grammys, but for its technical quality. In her senior year of college, she recorded her third album, Build Me Up from Bones . It hit the charts again, earning her two more Grammy nominations for the album itself and for the title track.

Then Jarosz first went on an international tour. By Garrison Keillor was several times as a guest presenter of his mission A Prairie Home Companion invited. Eventually she moved to New York . A joint appearance with Aoife O'Donovan and Sara Watkins from Nickel Creek became the project I'm with Her , which went on tour in 2015. Under Keillor's successor Chris Thile , Jarosz and O'Donovan also became part of the studio band of A Prairie Home Companion .

In addition to the many other activities, Sarah Jarosz also started her next album Undercurrent in 2015 . It was released the following year and brought it to number 1 on the bluegrass charts for the second time. She was nominated twice at the 2017 Grammy Awards , this time winning both awards for Best Folk Album and Best American Roots Performance of the Song House of Mercy .

Awards

Grammy Awards

Prices

Nominations

  • 2010 : best performance of a country instrumental for Mansinneedof
  • 2014 : best American roots song for Build Me Up from Bones
  • 2014: best folk album for Build Me Up from Bones
  • 2020: best American Roots performance for Call My Name (as part of I'm with Her )

The two albums Follow Me Down and Undercurrent also received Grammys for technical quality (award went to the technicians)

Discography

Albums

  • Song Up in Her Head (2009)
  • Follow Me Down (2011)
  • Live at the Troubadour (Live EP , 2013)
  • Build Me Up from Bones (2013)
  • Undercurrent (2016)
  • World on the Ground (2020)

Songs

  • Run Away (2011)
  • Broussard's Lament (live, 2011)
  • Annabelle Lee (2012)
  • Over the Edge (2013)
  • Build Me Up from Bones (2014)
  • House of Mercy (2016)

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: Sarah Jarosz in the US charts (Billboard)
  2. ^ Sarah Jarosz in the Grammy Database, accessed January 31, 2020

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SURNAME Jarosz, Sarah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer-songwriter of traditional American music
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Austin , Texas , United States