Bryan Elijah Smith

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NASA USED SMITH’S ‘POUR ON ME’ FOR THEIR 2013 ‘WATER FALLS’ TRAILER

SMITH’S’IN THROUGH THE DARK’ APPEARS IN A NEW NETFLIX SERIES CALLED ‘VIRGIN RIVER’

Bryan Elijah Smith is an award winning singer-songwriter & multi-instrumentalist producer based out of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Smith’s innate songwriting ability and haunting voice leave you with a sense of timeless nostalgia. With over 1,500 songs penned & 12 independent releases, Smith is creating a self-produced legacy that began with his first song at the age of 18. Aside from touring the United States for well over a decade, Smith has also toured internationally in both Australia & Honduras. Crossing a wide array of genres, what gets produced has been compared to the likes of everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Gregory Alan Isakov. Smith recently won 2nd place in the prestigious Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at MerleFest 2019 where the title track to his new album, ‘In Through The Dark’, was 1 of 12 songs chosen out of 1,000 national entries. Smith has been a CASC finalist 2 years in a row (past finalist include Gillian Welch & Lera Lynn). ‘In Through The Dark’ won 1st place in the Unsigned Only 2019 international songwriting contest where there were 6,000 entries from over 100 countries. ‘In Through The Dark’ also appears in the new NETFLIX series ‘Virgin River’ which premiered in December 2019. Subsequently the song was a 2020 Independent Music Awards nominee in the ‘Used In Film/TV’ category.
Smith’s new album ‘Apocalyptic Blues’ was officially released July 3rd 2021 on all streaming platforms & voted #34 on WNRN’s ‘TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 2021’.