Keppie’s “voice is beautiful, just gorgeous. She’s like a contemporary female Nick Drake…and her guitar playing is so beautiful, so raw…”

Keppie Coutts is an Australian singer songwriter, whose blend of jazz-infused folk melts the mellow tones of Norah Jones with the quirky pop of Feist and the fire of Ani DiFranco into a Chagall painting of sound. Keppie's tunes are earthy, sophisticated, and direct - heart-squeezing, uplifting; sometimes hilarious, sometimes dark.

Multi-Grammy award-winning artist John Mayer heard a new tune of Keppie’s (‘Waiting for the Avalanche’) and within a week, had taken it into the studio in Boston to record. Keppie had scored a private audience with Mayer as one of 12 young songwriters hand-selected to spend the week with Mayer in 2008. Find more about that here!

A sojourn to the US saw Coutts catapult from student to faculty at the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 5 short years, teaching in the Songwriting Department in 2010. Since then, Keppie’s music has appeared on international radio and prime time television, and Coutts has taught songwriting at the Songwriting School of Los Angeles, Berklee Online, and for the Conservatorium Open Academy in her native Sydney. More info on Keppie’s teaching can be found here.

Coutts’ talents as a lyric writer have more recently been sought after by others in the music industry. “As a professional songwriter, I work in collaboration with many artists—from Indie bluegrass Canadians, to major label pop acts, and even an internationally touring heavy metal band from Melbourne. As long as a songwriter shares my passion for creating meaningful lyrics, style and genre are no boundary at all.”

To her surprise and delight, people often approach Keppie after shows, making excited comparisons to Norah Jones, Feist, and Sarah Bareilles, though as one fan put it: “You sound like a million different women and like no one else”.

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