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Artist Bio

Chris Pureka is a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose bold vulnerability in processing the intimacies of her life in song has long appealed to listeners who crave authenticity. Chris’s elegant emotionality as a vocalist, and her flair and immediacy as a lyricist have garnered her favorable comparisons to Gillian Welch, Cat Power, Bruce Springsteen, and Patty Griffin. She’s shared the stage with such diverse and esteemed artists as The Lumineers, The Cowboy Junkies, Gregory Alan Isakov and Ani DiFranco. Along the way, Chris has remained fiercely independent, selling nearly 50,000 albums through her own label, Sad Rabbit Records.