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Bonnie McKee is an American singer and songwriter. A classically trained pianist turned 'pop rebel', Bonnie McKee spent her formative years in California.
Her debut album, Trouble, was released in 2004. Nineteen years old, Bonnie wrote all thirteen tracks of Trouble before she was sixteen.
At age five, Bonnie joined the acclaimed Girl's Choir in her hometown of Seattle, an invaluable musical apprenticeship augmented by such seminal influences as the evocative songwriting of Carol King and the pure pop pageantry of Michael Jackson. Her first forays into composing began by age twelve, which also marks her first appearances on Seattle's open mike club scene, where she quickly earned veteran status. Perfecting her performance skills with intensive voice lessons, Bonnie single-handedly put together her first demo as part of a junior high school project, enlisting fellow students to serve as her back-up band.
It was an accomplishment that set the stage for a subsequent six-song EP, written, performed and produced by the sixteen-year old.
Bonnie McKee quickly landed a major recording contract with Reprise Records. Relocating to Los Angeles she immediately began work on the album that would become Trouble and include re-cut versions of all six songs from her EP.
Shortly afterwards, Bonnie scored a creative coup when she was chosen to portray legendary singer Janis Joplin on the critically-acclaimed NBC-TV dramatic series, American Dreams. She made her national broadcast acting debut in a speaking role as the pioneering female rocker.
For more information and to hear her music, check Bonnie's MySpace page at www.myspace.com/bonniemckee.
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