ADRON IS A MUSICIAN

With otherworldy whistling, adventures in language, kaleidoscopic guitar work and a voice like whipped cream, Atlanta-bred, LA-based singer-songwriter Adron (pronounced AY-drawn) seems to have absorbed and synthesized the history of global pop music into her own wholly unique oeuvre. 

Virtually born singing, and picking out melodies on the piano as soon as she could reach it, Adron (née Adrienne McCann) undertook classical training in piano at age 4. But obsessed with the Beatles and allergic to programmatic instruction, her mission to become an original pop music creator and experimenter began as early as she can remember. Adron is a self-taught guitarist, having picked up a nylon-string hand-me-down at age 12, shortly before she discovered samba, bossa nova and Tropicália. The music of Brazil would become crucial to her musical worldview and vocabulary from then on, as she studied the songcraft and vocal expression of her hero Caetano Veloso, the delicate and playful guitar work of Luiz Bonfá, and the psychedelic voyaging of Os Mutantes.

Adron attended and dropped out of Scripps College, decided against formal music school, and embarked on her public-facing music career in her hometown Atlanta. Adron's early performances at mainstay venues like Eddie's Attic soon led to the recording of her first album, Adron, at age 19. It featured many of her now-signature moves - birdlike whistling, McCartney-esque melodic sensibilities, nimble and decidedly untraditional nylon-string guitarwork, and thoughtful, a-little-bit-funny lyrics in English and Portuguese. After the album's release she moved to New York City, finding lasting friendships and creative mojo in the city's vibrant arts scene. Alliances forged included Helado Negro, with whom Adron has now collaborated on six albums and several live performances, Prefuse 73 aka Scott Herren (the pair co-wrote "The Only Guitar to Die Alone" for side project Diamond Watch Wrists in 2009), Francis and the Lights (providing live and studio backing vocals), and visual artist Michael Alan (for whose famed Draw-A-Thon live figure drawing events Adron performed, posed and painted). 

A return to Atlanta led to the next phase of Adron's recording career, recording Organismo with production by Martin Kearns at Down in Deep Studio. The album was advantaged by the talents of many Georgia luminaries including members of Little Tybee, flautist Bob Lewis, guitarists Rick Hinkle and Davis Causey, and especially the worldbuilding genius of drummer and percussionist Colin Agnew, with whom Adron would enter a partnership for the next several years. Their friendship and rich collaborations continue to this day, and Colin's sound and shared language of Latin, soul and jazz influence play central roles in the music Adron has recorded and performed since. 

With her two full-length LPs and a reputation under her belt, Adron's stage chops expanded throughout the next few years. She shared stages with personal heroes Os Mutantes, Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab, and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, who personally requested Adron for his 2017 tour after an opening gig with the legendary jazz-rock songwriter fell in her lap when his support cancelled. The two bonded over shared passions for Twin Peaks and the films of Werner Herzog, and Adron obtained Fagen's blessing to perform her live Doobie Brothers cover to a charmed audience at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.

After a nearly six-year incubation period, Organismo was finally succeeded by the 2018 release of Water Music. It marked a journey deeper into '70s soul sounds, as Adron had fallen face-first in love with songwriter pop albums of the period like Phoebe Snow and Bonnie Raitt's Streetlights. The record shows its lengthy and painstaking gestation period in lavish and articulate production, with the contribution of yet more of Atlanta's finest; Robby Handley (bass), Rick Lollar (guitar), Rhett Huffman (keys) and The Shadowboxers (backing vocals). 

After Water Music, Adron moved to Los Angeles, where she brightened the dark days of pandemic lockdown with her single “Song About My Computer” - which she called her “whimsical pessimist expression of comic distemper.” Now she’s hitting more U.S. tour routes while preparing the way for her next offerings, an LP to be called The Trickster, conceptually centered around love, loss, psychedelics and wanderlust, and a moodier self-produced collection tentatively called Peru. 

praise . . .

“A stone-cold assassin in terms of technique.”

-Jolie Holland

"Smooth, luminous pop from this Atlanta singer-songwriter, whose guitar playing is heavily influenced by tropicália.”

-Bandcamp

"[Water Music] is an airy trip that fills every space with lush instrumentation while also leaving plenty of room to feel every twist and turn that Adron's assured hand has mapped out." 

-Billboard

“The soothing beauty of Adron’s music is timeless.”

-We Heart Music

“[Water Music] is a collection of sweet and sentimental pop that's as dazzling and full of sheen as a pearl waiting to be uncovered on the ocean floor.”

-The Grey Estates

“This savvy Brazilian tropicália and bossa nova-inspired guitar player refuses to be restricted by linguistic boundaries.”

-Creative Loafing