Hana Fe

Hana Fe is a singer/songwriter born in San Francisco, California. Raised in Los Angeles, she was educated at the Harvard-Westlake School before moving to Virginia at the age of 18 to study History and Music Composition at the University of Richmond. It was during summer vacations from university that she started laying out the tracks for her first album, although her musical journey did not start there.

She began piano at the age of 7, flute at 9, voice at 10 and composing music on these instruments at 12. When she picked up guitar a year later, her music compositions began to take a new direction, incorporating Indie Rock sounds into her classical music-inspired, pop music pieces. Throughout Middle and High School, songs such as “Broken,” “Stay” and “Have a Good Day” were showcased during local Coffeehouse jams, various school performances and early self-made recordings made with an ADAT 8-track recorder and rudimentary computer software. After attending a summer program at Berklee College of Music at the age of 16, Jazz made its way into her music repertoire, as can be heard in “Might Have Been.”

Aside from her musical endeavors at the University of Richmond, she has also studied Music Composition at the University of Hong Kong. Among her many musical influences are John Mayer, Leona Naess, Pete Yorn and Vanessa Carlton.

Currently, she is completing a Research Masters Degree in History at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and is slated to take up a Ph.D. position at University College London in the fall of 2011. And, while her life has taken many unexpected turns, music remains an important part of it.