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Whitney Lyman is an American singer-songwriter who made her mark out of the illustrious Seattle music scene and is now based in Los Angeles. Her music is a unique blend of indie rock and alternative pop, featuring powerful and emotional vocals, inspiring lyrics, and dynamic arrangements. Often compared to Fleetwood Mac, Amy Winehouse, and Adele, Whitney crafts songs that are both deeply personal and universally resonant. Whitney has performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! with Grammy-nominated ODESZA, opened for artists such as Tom Odell and The Bird and the Bee, and played at music festivals including Capitol Hill Block Party, the NAMM Show 2025 official stage, and Mastering the Music Business in Bucharest, Romania. She has toured extensively across the US and Europe, earning acclaim for her evocative performances. In 2024, she made her UK debut at FOCUS:Wales International Showcase Festival and returned six months later for a UK tour. After an overwhelmingly positive reception, she is set to return for her third UK tour, including performances at FOCUS:Wales 2025 and The Dublin Castle in London, supporting her upcoming EP Becoming You. Whitney is also endorsed by several top brands in the music industry, including Gibson Guitar, Telefunken Mics, Casio Keyboards, and Mackie Gear.

A deeply collaborative effort, Becoming You was created in partnership with acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and producer Cherish Alexander (Cyndi Lauper, Josie Cotton, Tiffany). Introduced by legendary songwriter Alan Roy Scott (Celine Dion, Cyndi Lauper, Cher), Whitney and Cherish found an effortless creative synergy, crafting songs that bridge introspective lyricism with lush, immersive instrumentation. Recorded between Poodle Pop Studios and Kitten Robot Studios in Los Angeles, the EP features an all-star lineup of musicians, including George Bellias (Bon Jovi, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears), Jano Janosik (The Violets, Bella Bazarria, Stewboss), and renowned composer Andrew Joslyn (Kesha, Suzanne Vega, Duff McKagan), whose orchestral arrangements elevate the EP’s emotional resonance. Engineered and mixed by Paul Roessler (Josie Cotton, Leah Andreone, Pat Smear) and mastered by the legendary Dave Donnelly (Beck, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Aerosmith), Becoming You is as sonically rich as it is emotionally profound.

The album artwork, a striking portrait by fine artist Clifford Bailey, takes inspiration from Joni Mitchell’s iconic Clouds cover, visually reflecting the introspective nature of the EP.

Supermoon, the first single is a lush, fairy-tale-like composition that transports listeners into a world of castles, knights, and epic love stories.

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The Time Is Now - Whitney Lyman Live in Wrexham, UK

The Time Is Now - Whitney Lyman Live in Wrexham, UK

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Becoming You- Whitney Lyman Live in Wrexham, UK

Becoming You- Whitney Lyman Live in Wrexham, UK

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Supermoon - Whitney Lyman Live in Wrexham, UK

Supermoon - Whitney Lyman Live in Wrexham, UK

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Whitney Lyman - Heal Your Heart (Live in London!)

Whitney Lyman - Heal Your Heart (Live in London!)

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Press

"‘The Time is Now’ is the gentle and melodic latest single from Whitney Lyman. A wonderful blend of Lyman’s soft and subdued vocals and her potently colorful compositions. American singer and songwriter Whitney Lyman’s return is a spectacular time. ‘The Time is Now’ is a sweetly paced and gorgeously crafted piece of alternative pop that comes with unforgettable melodies and a delightfully lighthearted atmosphere, as well as a vivid and engaging arrangement that’s gently full of color and detail." - Rock Era Magazine

"Whitney Lyman’s “Floating” is a captivating adventure through a dream-like world of sounds. Her ethereal, beautiful voice, when mixed with rich instruments, creates a powerful, but still very uplifting mood. The song combines indie pop and electronic to show Whitney Lyman’s unique capabilities as an artist and gives you deep emotions.

But the lyrics have the most depth., and the words resonate with anyone who uses music to find comfort. Listening to “Floating”, you will see clearly that it’s a personification of Whitney Lyman’s utter genius in creating and mixing with her pure and intricate composition that’s hard not to appreciate."  - Keep Walking Music

"Seattle singer/songwriter Whitney Lyman can only be described as a kind of space traveler, able to embody any musical form required for the gig. She can go indie rock one minute, then turn a corner into dreamy pop with smatterings of folk and classical, into a gospel choir no one on earth’s ever heard before. Her voice is like that of two thousand angels descending down into the night, arms stretched outward pouring broken maple leaves and backward Northwest rain."  -AXS.com

"Local powerhouse singer-songwriter Whitney Lyman opened the night [for The Bird And The Bee] with a six-song set, making a noticeable impression on many in the crowd. Backed by a three-piece band, Lyman’s voice is a driving force. When she growls she’s sweet as pie, but her big notes howl like the wind." -Seattle Music News

"Whitney Lyman. She has some really superb songwriting and her music walks this really beautiful line between folk, pop, and rock, is that a line or more like standing somewhere in the middle of a venn diagram?" -Secretly Important

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"The Theoretics reveal echoes of The xx’s earlier work. When the five-piece 'livetronica' band pairs with more...vocalists like Whitney Lyman (“Nightwalker”), the comparison only becomes more apparent, even irresistible." -Seattle Times

"Lyman writes music like a surrealist paints, layering the bizarre and the divine into one mind-expanding canvas."  - City Arts Magazine

"She has some really superb songwriting and her music walks this really beautiful line between folk, pop, and rock, is that a line or more like standing somewhere in the middle of a venn diagram?... Whitney has a certain cadence to her melodies that are really unique and jarring in the best way possible."  -Secretly Important

"She’s a rich, youthful blend of indie originality and easy popularity, with a magnetic voice and an intuitively fluid lyricism that captures the gothic majesty of a thousand ancient churches, headed light years into galactic reaches. Gauzy, cavernous, yet pure, able to pierce the heart of the story, the pulse of a catchy beat, the turns and spins of a melody ramp."  -AXS.com (full article)

"Singer/songwriter Whitney Lyman can bring out the lyrical hook in any rough track, with a sound that’s a cross between nostalgia and visionary."     

-The Examiner.com

"With her single, “Laser Beam”, Lyman just may have invented a new musical style: dream pop." -AXS.com

"Whitney Lyman‘s elegant voice lends itself well to such a beautiful song 'Laser Beam.'" -Northwest Music Scene


"More genre-flauting meta-music from Seattle's most forward-looking rockstar-shaman. "Mind Matter" is more immediately fun than Vox Mod's usual jams, a bouncy electro-pop nugget featuring lush vocals from Whitney Lyman. It'd be all over mainstream FM were there any justice in the world." -Jonathan Zwickel, City Arts Magazine

"All of the songs on the self-titled album [Supersonic Parachute,] are nicely arranged pop songs with R&B leanings that use Lyman’s voice particularly well, but it’s the fourth song, “Love is a Spark” that has me hitting replay over and over again..It has exactly what I look for in a great pop song: effervescent harmonies, a big, smart, catchy-as-hell chorus, a nicely constructed bridge and a sexiness that is both underlying and overt."   -Chris Burlingame, The Sun Break

"Pacific Northwest critics took notice, as did a growing group of fans. Transfixed by her voice, which seemed to go on forever, often on just one note, told a whirlwind of stories through inflection, phrasing and timbre. Her debut album incorporated as much of the world as she could muster, from Indonesia’s Gamelan bells and drums to a big band’s worth of sectionals." -AXS.com

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Featured vocalist with Odesza on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Featured vocalist with Odesza on KEXP Live in-studio

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