Dana Salzman

Pianist, singer, composer, producer and musical director Dana Salzman creates funky, flavorful tunes that re-imagine jazz, funk, hip-hop, soul, Latin and R&B music and illuminate her sultry voice, fine-tuned piano technique and talent for composition and arrangement. She blends together fresh beats and lyrics into vivid arrangements that ignite all five senses and explore the intense dimensions of raw human emotion. Salzman began to study piano at age four with her mother, an accomplished Russian pianist, and went on to study jazz formally eventually earning a degree from the New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City. Salzman has worked closely with many celebrated musicians and songwriters during her career, including Mike Marshall (Timex Social Club), Tony Flores (Marvin Gaye, Bobby Womack), Pete Escovedo, Rappin Forte, Samuelle Prater (Club Neaveau) and more. She has also played at notable east and west coast U.S. venues and festivals S.O.B.s and Joe’s Pub Brooklyn Art Museum (BAM); Yoshi’s, The Fenix, Slims SF, Jupiter and others and also overseas in Paris, Brussels, Prague, and Berlin. Now based in Oakland, CA, Salzman does all her own production, writing and arranging and is an in-demand piano and voice teacher. She has released four acclaimed solo albums that are available on iTunes and CDBaby – It’s Out of Your Hands (2007), Rising (2010), Deep Down (2014), and Unfold (2020) – and has music on rotation at several radio stations across the country.