Heather Kropf - singer/songwriter
"Music is many things - the salve, the salt, and the sweetness." - Heather Kropf
Heather is a singer/songwriter/producer living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A native of Portland, Oregon, and trained in classical piano and fine art, she has produced three albums and appeared as a vocalist on numerous other projects.
Her most recent album "Hestia" is an acoustic project that blends old and new songs, with instrumentation similar to Joni Mitchell's "For the Roses." "I was inspired by the Greek Goddess of the Hestia, ruler of hearth and home, and wanted to create a recording that expressed the more intimate sound of my live, acoustic performances," says Kropf.
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports that 'Hestia'...captures the organic essence of her live performance. The sound is clear, simple, and devoid of the kind of post-production that can hamper and artist such as Kropf, whose piano and vocal skills fit so well together."
Prior to that, her second release, a fully-developed pop rock album was celebrated by WYEP, 91.3 FM as one of the top albums of 2006. Her debut "Sky" also received critical acclaim as a runner-up to the top 50 albums of the year by WYEP. She has performed live all over the region, including the Three Rivers Arts Festival, First Night, WYEP and WQED Studios, the Philadelphia Music Conference, and has opened for national acts such as Mason Jennings, The Weepies, Betty LaVette and Ben Arnold.
Her sound is a blend of poetry and pop, and dips into the classic sounds of 70s folk and singer/songwriters, to contemporary AAA and neo-soul. Her pristine and mellifluous voice, named "an esoteric slice of blue-eyed soul" lives somewhere between Jill Sobule, Tracy Thorn, and Aimee Mann.