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Ari Hest

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Ari Hest
Hest at The Saint in Asbury Park, New Jersey, May 11, 2011
Hest atThe SaintinAsbury Park, New Jersey,May 11, 2011
Background information
Born(1979-06-16)June 16, 1979(age 45)
New York City,U.S.
GenresRock,folk,pop
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, musician
Instrument(s)Guitar, keyboards, harmonica
Years active1999–present
LabelsColumbia,Project 4
Websitewww.arihest

Ari Hest(born June 16, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter from theBronxborough of New York.[1]

Early life and education

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Hest's father is a college music professor and his mother a cantor.[2]His older brother, Danny, is Hest's former manager. Hest took piano lessons as a child and later taught himself to play guitar. Hest attendedCornell UniversityinIthaca,New York, beginning in 1999 and later transferred toNew York University,where he received a degree in Communications in 2002.

Career

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Hest released anEP,Incompleteand two albums,Come HomeandStory After Storyall independently as he grew his fan base touring colleges and universities around the U.S. In March 2004, Hest signed arecording contractwithColumbiaand recorded the albumSomeone To Telland a five-song EP "Guilty Hearts EP" in the fall of 2005. His next EP was calledThe Green Room Sessions,a home spun recording entirely played and produced on his own. Shortly after releasing that, he worked with producerMitchell Froomon "The Break-In", which was his last release on Columbia.

As an independent artist once again in 2008, Hest created52,a subscription based service in which he wrote, recorded and released a new song every week for a year. In 2009, he releasedTwelve Mondays,a collection of 12 fan-selected songs from those 52, remixed.

Between 2011 and 2014, Hest released three more albums -Sunset Over Hope Street(2011),The Fire Plays(2012) andShouts and Whispers (2014). Several songs from these albums have appeared in films and TV shows.

In 2016, Ari co-wrote a number of songs withJudy Collins,and the two released an album of duets June 3 entitledSilver Skies Blue,after two years of on-and-off touring together. The album earned Hest his firstGrammy Awardnomination (it was Collins' first nomination in 40 years).Silver Skies Bluewas nominated forBest Folk Albumat the59th Annual Grammy Awardsin 2017 but lost toUndercurrentbySarah Jarosz.This is not Hest's first collaboration - he has two other projects: The Open Sea with Rosi Golan, and more recently, the Brazilian guitar inspired Bluebirds of Paradise with Chrissi Poland.

Discography

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  • Come Home(2001)
  • Story After Story(2002)
  • Someone to Tell(2004)
  • I've Got You(Download only single, 2007)
  • The Break-In(2007)
  • 52(2008)
  • Twelve Mondays(2009)
  • Sunset Over Hope Street(2011)
  • The Fire Plays(2012)
  • Shouts and Whispers(2014)
  • Silver Skies BluewithJudy Collins(2016)
  • Natural(2017)
  • Against The Sky(2020)

Extended plays

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  • Incomplete(1999)
  • Guilty Hearts(2005)
  • The Green Room Sessions(2006)
  • Live at theQuick Center(2008)

Soundtrack and other albums

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  • Consistency,Live from the Village Underground (2002), Project 4, included with first 1,000 copies of “Story After Story”
  • Winter Break: The Movie Soundtrack(2003), Various Artists, with “Strangers Again” from Ari Hest
  • DecentXposure: Volume One(2003). Various Artists, with "Consistency" from Ari Hest
  • The Lincoln Lawyersoundtrack (2011) Various Artists, with "Now" from Ari Hest
  • The Open Sea (withRosi Golan), "Little Apple" EP (2010)

References

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  1. ^Fitzpatrick, Heather (March 4, 2013)."Interview & Photos: Ari Hest @ the Triple Door".Back Beat Seattle.Archived fromthe originalon October 16, 2014.RetrievedOctober 10,2014.
  2. ^Barron, Nicole (April 11, 2011)."Interview with Ari Hest".The Celebrity Cafe.Archived fromthe originalon October 17, 2014.RetrievedOctober 10,2014.
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