Ari Hest

Ari Hest

Hest at The Saint in Asbury Park, NJ, May 11, 2011
Background information
Born (1979-06-16) June 16, 1979
New York, United States
Genres Rock, Acoustic, Pop
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments Guitar, keyboards, harmonica
Years active 1999–present
Labels Columbia, Project 4 Records
Website http://www.arihest.com

Ari Hest (born 16 June 1979) is an American singer-songwriter from the Bronx borough of New York.[1]

Biography

Early life and education

Hest's father is a college music professor and his mother a cantor.[2] His older brother, Danny, is Hest's former manager. Hest took piano lessons as a child and later taught himself to play guitar. Hest attended Cornell University in Ithaca, NY beginning in 1999 and later transferred to New York University, where he received a degree in Communications in 2002.

Career

Hest released an EP, Incomplete and two albums, Come Home and Story After Story all independently as he grew his fan base touring colleges and universities around the U.S. In March 2004, Hest signed a recording contract with Columbia and recorded the album Someone To Tell and a five-song EP "Guilty Hearts EP" in the fall of 2005. His next EP was called The Green Room Sessions, a home spun recording entirely played and produced on his own. Shortly after releasing that, he worked with producer Mitchell Froom on "The Break-In", which was his last release on Columbia.

As an independent artist once again in 2008, Hest created 52, a subscription based service in which he wrote, recorded and released a new song every week for a year. In 2009, he released Twelve Mondays, a collection of 12 fan-selected songs from those 52, remixed.

Between 2011 and 2014, Hest released three more albums - Sunset Over Hope Street (2011), The Fire Plays (2012) and Shouts and Whispers (2014). Several songs from these albums have appeared in films and TV shows.

In 2016, Ari co-wrote songs with Judy Collins, and the two released an album of duets June 3 entitled Silver Skies Blue after two years of on and off touring together. This is not Hest's first collaboration - he has two other projects: The Open Sea with Rosi Golan, and more recently, the Brazilian guitar inspired Bluebirds of Paradise with Chrissi Poland.

Discography

Full-Length, Extended Play and Single Albums

Promotional, Soundtrack and Other Albums

References

  1. ↑ Fitzpatrick, Heather (March 4, 2013). "Interview & Photos: Ari Hest @ the Triple Door". Back Beat Seattle. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ Barron, Nicole (April 11, 2011). "Interview with Ari Hest". The Celebrity Cafe. Archived from the original on October 17, 2014. Retrieved October 10, 2014.

External links

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