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.
