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Born in a small city in Montana, Hunter started singing from the younger age of 10. Rising up, she carried out each probability she obtained between attending summer season colleges for vocal coaching and starring in highschool and neighborhood theatre musicals taking part in “Annie” in “Annie Get Your Gun,” as “Liesl” in “Sound of Music,” and as “Maria” in a second manufacturing of “Sound of Music.” She was additionally the lead singer in her personal band “All Goal”, carried out in additional than 7 faculty choirs, and was a member of Helena’s Chamber Singers.
Along with her soulful, easy and distinctive sound, Hunter’s vocal expertise was acknowledged all through highschool at native, regional and state degree music festivals. She received the native “Idol” expertise contest and as a significant feat went on to compete on “American Idol” in 2011 and “The Voice,” in 2013 having made it to Prime 100 in American Idol and Prime 60 on Season 4 of The Voice!
After Excessive College, Hunter left her hometown on the age of 18 to additional her schooling on the Musician’s Institute in Hollywood, graduating with a double main in Vocal Efficiency and Music Manufacturing. Throughout this time, she landed her first TV function within the 2017 sitcom pilot titled Spare Me. After touchdown the function, author David O. Whatley was so impressed with Hunter’s music and instantly modified her function to contain singing in each episode of the sequence. Hunter additionally co-wrote/recorded the present’s theme track with acclaimed Composer Robb Padgett and her pal Lukas Nelson. Quickly after, she grew to become a sought-after resident performer at well-liked LA membership The Good Man, the place she carried out for A-listers together with Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber, David Fosters, The Kardashians, and extra.
HUNTER presently resides in Los Angeles, the place she writes and data songs for TV reveals along with her co-writer and former The Voice contestant, Jeff Lewis, with songs featured in The Bachelorette, Love Island, The Largest Loser, Married at First Sight, and American Ninja Warrior. Her authentic track “I Am”, co-written with Chris Alan Lee, was additionally featured on the Oprah Winfrey Community’s Love within the Metropolis.
Sadly, she was just lately affected by the Palisades Hearth, watching her beloved neighborhood burn to the bottom. This expertise reshaped her and made her stronger as an individual and artist – resilient in overcoming the dire challenges that she and so a lot of her friends endured. She rose from the ashes impressed to create contemporary music and with a strong, constructive perspective for hope, love, therapeutic and alter. Outdoors of labor, HUNTER enjoys spending time with family and friends, taking part in drums, purchasing, lengthy seashore walks, swimming, Pilates, and works as a private coach at Rise Motion half time.
1. Hunter, welcome to OLC! So nice to have you ever right here. Your sound fuses soulful storytelling with retro vibes from the ‘60s and ‘70s—how do you steadiness classic influences with creating one thing contemporary and trendy?
A: The pleasure is mine, thanks! I used to be introduced up on that classic music, however I like listening to the pop charts simply the identical. I needed to fuse the 2—like Amy Winehouse and Adele did. After I report, I all the time like to put down dwell instrumentation first. Actual people making music provides that pure, human really feel all of us love from our favourite tracks. I additionally recorded this album on all classic gear. Then I hand the monitor off to my producer to layer in trendy digital/pop appears like what we hear on the 2025 radio. Mixing these components with actual instrumentation feels just like the candy spot for that vintage-pop steadiness.
2. Jennifer Lopez described your voice as “easy like butter,” and Lukas Nelson known as your soul your “superpower.” How do you channel that emotional depth into your vocal efficiency and songwriting?
A: After I sing and write, I actually attempt to put myself into the lyrics—really feel them, act them out, and join with them emotionally. That method, once I carry out, I can actually emote what the track is saying. I grew up singing and performing in musical theater, and I believe that basically helped form how I hook up with a efficiency.
3. Your upcoming EP contains collaborations with songwriting heavyweights like Jamie Hartman and David Ryan Harris. What was it like creating with them and the way did these classes form the undertaking’s sound?
A: I’m so grateful for David. He’s change into an expensive pal—mainly household at this level. He produced the EP, co-wrote a lot of the songs, and went above and past my expectations. His musical intuition is unbelievable, and he has such a sort, beneficiant soul.
Jamie and I truly began “All In” years in the past in a session with my former producer, John Alagia. We scrapped it on the time—it didn’t make my first EP. However once I began placing songs collectively for this undertaking, I remembered it and introduced it to David. We had a sense we might end it and switch it into one thing particular—and we did. Jamie is such an incredible songwriter. Watching him and John provide you with these wild chord progressions and hovering hooks was unforgettable. They gave David and me a ravishing basis to complete constructing on.
4. Your new single “GOOD GIRL” drops August 1, adopted by your sophomore EP in August and “Me and My Mustang” in September. Which monitor on this undertaking feels essentially the most private to you, and why?
A: I’d should say “All In.” After I initially wrote it, it was about falling in love. However in January, I misplaced my home within the Palisades fires. Life obtained actually tough after that—financially and emotionally. I bear in mind throwing my fingers up at some point and yelling, “I don’t care what the circumstances are—I’m going to provide it all the things I’ve obtained and get out of this.” That was my “all in” second. All of the sudden the refrain meant one thing utterly totally different. Now it appears like an anthem for resilience—for giving life all the things you’ve obtained, it doesn’t matter what.
5. You’re becoming a member of Casey Abrams and Dylan Chambers on the ‘Casey and Mates Tour’ this fall. What are you most wanting ahead to about being on the street with these two artists?
A: Actually, the video games we play backstage or whereas ready round on the airport! Casey and Dylan are hilarious—now we have a lot enjoyable simply goofing off and laughing collectively.
6. “Disco Ball” radiates empowerment and pleasure—what was the inspiration behind that monitor, and the way does it replicate the place you might be in your life proper now?
A: The inspiration was actually a disco ball! We needed to write down a track about how our imperfections are literally what make us lovely. I believe it was David who got here up with the disco ball metaphor, and we simply ran with it. It’s a reminder that flaws can shine.
7. You’ve had success throughout music, performing, and modeling—from Skechers Tremendous Bowl adverts to roles on The Morning Present and The Daring and the Lovely. How do you navigate these inventive lanes and hold them in concord?
A: It undoubtedly retains me on my toes! In right this moment’s leisure business, you nearly should run in a number of lanes to maintain the lights on. I’m fortunate to have an incredible crew of brokers who assist hold my schedule manageable so I can find time for all of it. I’m tremendous grateful for his or her assist.
8. You’ve been the face of Neutrogena and now Sephora. What’s one magnificence or wellness ritual that retains you grounded whereas juggling so many tasks?
A: I like carving out time for self-care—morning and evening. That may appear to be lighting a candle, taking a pleasant bathe, doing my skincare, brushing my hair and enamel, and taking part in chill music that makes me really feel good. Simply creating a chilled routine helps me really feel grounded, irrespective of the place I’m—on the street, backstage, or in a resort room.
9. You had been raised in Montana, competed on American Idol and The Voice, and later studied in Hollywood. Was this all the time your childhood dream?
A: It actually was. If little grade-school Hunter might see me now, I believe she’d be thrilled. I’ve already exceeded her expectations.
10. After surviving the Palisades Hearth, you’ve spoken about discovering energy by means of that devastation. How has that have influenced your music and private mission?
A: The expertise by some means… took the strain off. It jogged my memory that issues are simply issues. Life is unpredictable—you may lose all the things immediately. That shook me in one of the best ways. I finished striving so exhausting for cash, perfection, and success, and began specializing in pleasure and being current. Now once I sing, I’m not chasing perfection—I’m singing for pleasure.
11. You’ve carried out with legends like Willie Nelson and Lukas Nelson at Austin Metropolis Limits and The Hollywood Bowl. What’s been your most surreal second onstage thus far?
A: Undoubtedly that Hollywood Bowl present. My mother is a large Willie Nelson fan, each my mother and father had been within the viewers that evening. On the finish of the present, Willie gave me a hug on stage and I mentioned thanks for having me. That reminiscence—being on stage with him and my buddies and my mother and father watching—is a keeper.
12. With over 1.2 million Spotify streams in your debut EP and rising momentum round your new music, what do you hope listeners really feel or take away from this subsequent chapter of your artistry?
A: My aim has all the time been to make music that connects. That was true for my first EP, and it’s nonetheless true now. With David producing this time round, I actually leaned into that classic soul sound much more. I hope listeners hear the expansion, really feel the emotion. I simply need them to hear and really feel like I get them. And I would like them to bounce. 
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