Obenski's genre-bending style, flowing between soul, jazz, and folk, showcases her classically trained musicianship, while her grippingly honest lyrics, delivered with vocal clarity, will grab your attention.  She recently completed her seventh album entitled The Heart is a Persistent Beast. 
Obenski spent much of her childhood studying classical and jazz (piano and voice) while also hiding in her room writing poetry no one would hear.  In her twenties she began songwriting and all that practice writing poems in solitude morphed into a talent for lyrics. A California native, she grew up in San Diego, moved to Santa Cruz for college (go slugs!) and after a fifteen year love affair with the town, moved on to San Francisco where she's lived since 2012. She’s toured the U.S. and Europe, plus recorded and toured with her own French band (The Carbone Band), along with an Artist in Residence in Saint Herblain, France. You also may have heard her song, Carousel, on the hit TV Show, Grey’s Anatomy. 
With guidance from many kind mentors, Obenski has done much of her own producing, arranging, mixing and even audio engineering.  She spent several years diving into live-looping, a process in which she instantly records herself on a loop and creates layers upon layers of instruments and dreamy vocals.  You can hear this exploration on her release, An Emptiness to Fill, and on her single, Home.
Obenski has a passion for environmental consciousness and equal rights.  Through music and organizing she collectively raised six thousand dollars for the Sempervirens Fund in Santa Cruz to protect redwood forests. In 2012, her Carbon Conscious global tour raised awareness about the burning of rainforest in South America and the affects on climate change. She has successfully completed fundraisers in the last few years for RAICES (legal aid for immigrants) and also for the Equal Justice Initiative.

La Shamanessa's words, songs, chants, spoken word, & avant garde expression.  Enjoy!  Made in Brooklyn.

Singer-songwriter + entrepreneur from Leeds, UK. 
Writing and releasing music independently, Hannah has completed several sold-out international tours, garnered over 300 million streams and achieved numerous top ten international hits (including two #1 singles in Laos and Vietnam).

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