“Nashville Recording Artist & International touring Singer and prolific songwriter that truly brings the deep Southern-fried country with a splash of dirt road country and a kick of rock-n-roll attitude, oh and don’t forget the splash of salt & lime!”
Good Morning Jacksonville & First Coast news interviews 2021’s trma female vocalist of the year: ERICA SUNSHINE LEE
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Trop Rock's Female Vocalist of the Year kicks off tour in St. Augustine
Erica Sunshine Lee released her 10th album New Year's Day.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Erica Sunshine Lee is new to Jacksonville, but not to the music business.
"I've been touring the globe, about 300 shows per year since 2007," Lee said.
In November, Lee won Female Vocalist of the Year and Music Video of the Year at the Trop Rock Music Awards. She released her 10th album on New Year's Day. “This album kind of blends a little bit of beachy flavor, some classic country that I love along with a modern pop-country vibe," Lee said. " I feel like it brings in the roots of country where country has gone and a little splash of fun at the beach with a little salt.”
The country music star is kicking off her tour on Saturday in St. Augustine hoping to share her message with the First Coast.
“I’m a Christian and I do want to share a message of love and positivity to bring happiness and to bring joy to people when I play," Lee said.
You can find more information on Lee's tour dates by clicking here.
“Erica Sunshine Lee brings a refreshing style of music and original lyrics to her hew album “Same Ship Different Day” Often described as Country and Tropical, her style is truly all her own. On this album, she takes you on a musical journey from songs that will make you think and dance. There’s nothing better than an artist who is true to themselves with honesty and originality. You will love it!”
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Hello Gorgeous podcast:
Released April 8, 2020
Erica Sunshine Lee is a Nashville prolific songwriter with 9 original albums who plays 250+ shows/yr since 2007 globally, won 2019 TRMA video of the year, and penned 40+ songs recorded by Nashville artists,including a Top 40!
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Radio Trop Rock’s Artist of the month: Erica Sunshine Lee
Released April 1, 2020 by Eric Babin
An interview with the Bad Bitch herself, Radio Trop Rock's Artist of the Month for April 2020: ERICA SUNSHINE LEE.
We talk about her work ethic, TRMA Video of the Year Award, her children's book, Georgia roots, introduction to 'Trop Rock' and what she has planned in the near future.
For more information on Erica visit EricaSunshineLee.com
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Beach Bars & Guitars SHOW Ep.2 W/ ERICA SUNSHINE LEE
RELEASED MARCH 1, 2020
On this show Beach Bars & Guitars and Beach Bum Band's Johnny Russler interview's Trop-Rock's hottest femme fatale all the way from Key West: Erica Sunshine Lee. Then we check in with Trop-Rock's MIA artist A1A Jake Thomas and see what he has coming. Plus great music by Donny Brewer, Sauce Boss Bill Wharton, Erica Sun Shine Lee, the Beach Bum Band and A1A Jake and the Half Conched Band. Plus, the song Johnny wishes he wrote... Kick back and Enjoy!
“Erica Sunshine Lee that is. She can take you to church one minute and Honkytonk you the next. ”
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PICKS AND BONES interviews:
erica sunshine lee
Released March 2020
What happens when you take a Northeast Georgia girl with an incredible voice and drop her in Nashville? You get Erica Sunshine Lee, she’s a singer, songwriter, producer, country girl with the flair for Rock and Roll. Erica has been making music for over a decade bringing her unique sound to audiences as far as Australia. She is one of the most down to earth artists I’ve had to pleasure to interview and meet.
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I like real people and that is exactly what you get with Erica! She can take you to church one minute and Honky Tonk your socks off the next.
Erica Sunshine Lee has even written a children’s book “Butterfly!”
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Meet Erica Sunshine LeE:
This self-made Country Music Singer/Songwriter and Nashville Recording Artist has earned the reputation of "Hardest Working Woman in Country Music” due to her uncompromising work ethic performing over 250 shows/year across the world since 2007. Sunshine started singing in her Baptist Church in her hometown Elberton, Georgia at age 5, and formed her first rock band in San Francisco in 2005. A self-taught guitarist and harmonica player rose from the ashes after a devastating breakup, which kicked off her songwriting career. Sunshine says “God just gives me these words and stories about my life and I try to write them down as fast as I can.” Since her California rush, this prolific songwriter has since moved to Nashville, TN, and recorded and released 9 original albums on her own, while writing and producing songs for other artists. With her captivating songs and a truly engaging personality, Erica gains new fans worldwide and pulls crowds in with her honest, powerful, and unfiltered unique tunes such as ‘Mustard Seed,” “Karma,” “Change the World,”“Drinking and Praying,” and “Mud On My Boots.” Sunshine is a true storyteller. Her songs connect to so many people because she relates to listeners of all backgrounds and ventures into different styles effortlessly. Whether it’s about her fun globe trotting adventures, her faith, heartache, true love, and redemption, she jumps into uncharted waters most country artists would never dare swim in. She can write a true classic country style ballad that can rip your heart out, and have you laughing and dancing to a honky tonk number, then hit you with a catchy funky or pop groove all without ever feeling like you left modern day 2020.
“This is the kind of authentic music country DJ’s have been asking for,” says Nashville’s Al Brock. Sunshine just penned her first Top 40 Single on the Country Music Row Charts for Mark Bray: “I Just Need A Drink” in 2019.
Following the successful reception of Erica Sunshine Lee's 8th album, "Buried Treasure" she's been on the road full time touring the globe since 2007 across US, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe and instantly became one of Tropical Rock’s favorite new artists, winning 2019’s Music Video of the Year for the TRMAs (Tropical Rock Music Association). Seamlessly crossing over between the two genres ‘Country’ and ‘Trop Rock’ like her predecessors Kenny Chesney, Zac Brown, Alan Jackson, and of course the Trop Rock King himself Jimmy Buffett.
Erica Sunshine Lee has penned songs that were recorded by dozens of other Nashville, Australian and even Italian country artists, including the late Alabama Outlaw Legend Wayne Mills, Thomas Fountain (Recent Georgia Country's Female Artist of the Year), Trop Rock Sweetheart Isabella Stefania, Jessica Nixon(Nashville), Mark Bray, Hailey Verhaalen(Nashville), Ava Paige(Nashville), The Viper Creek Band (Australia's hottest new country band), Ryan Morris (Australia), Kirstie Lovelady(Nashville), Preston Summerville (Georgia), Mark Bray(Maryland), Joe Schmidt(North Dakota) and Jessica Hannan(Ohio). Sunshine has shared the stage with legends Maren Morris, Randy Houser, David Allan Coe, David Nail, Brett Eldredge, Walker McGuire, Granger Smith, Canaan Smith, Drake White, Cam, Jack Ingram and more, and has also performed with ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, Tommy Tutone, Trailor Choir & John Michael Montgomery. Erica Sunshine Lee has toured the US with Australian Band, “Turk Tresize” & “The Graysmiths”, recording the background vocals on his latest album "SOUL CASINO" which also featured the singer Brittany Howard from The Alabama Shakes. DJ's all across Europe and the states are raving about Sunshine’s “infectious and catchy hooks. This prolific songwriter, who holds nothing back, and brings a gallop of energy with her true country roots shining. She also puts her heart and soul in each ballad.”
Musically, Erica is taking each album to new heights including her latest EP Trilogy Series “Ready,” “Aim,” and “Fire,” sharing an even more intimate glimpse into her soul but with that same solid edge her fans have come to love. Mixing her faith in God with her navigation through life and love, this combines messages of hope in “Change the World,” encouragement to make it through life in “Monday Morning Jesus,” and a simple reminder to dance off life’s headaches with “Groove At It.” Sexy numbers like “Heat Wave” evoke such a dreamy passion reminiscent of a country Stevie Nicks, piercing the heart with a smoking gun of words flying in “Bullets,” and “Boomerang,” and leaving you falling in love all over again with the Georgia Gypsy’s familiar sassiness and spunk of “Chainsmoker.” This girl has true Moxie, and is a firecracker coming to a stage near you.
Her latest full-length album "Buried Treasure” is inspired by her laid back personality, with some beachy vibes from her coastal and tropical adventures from the Keys to the South Pacific and will have you longing for a taste of a “Mojito” and a “Good Time”….now available @ iTunes, Amazon, Spotify or order your signed copy from www.EricaSunshineLee.com/Store
Outside the circle podcast welcomes: Erica Sunshine LEe
“I’ve been on the road full-time for 12 years, releasing my 9th album for over a decade, and it’s been a heck of a ride.”
What kind of music was your influence? “I have such a random conglomeration of things that I listened to when I was in middle school and high school, a lot of 90s country: influences: I love anything from trisha, shania, dixie chicks, faith hill, and the guys too. I listened to Clay Walker, John Michael Montgomery, tim mcgraw, garth brooks. It was kind of an eclectic mix because I loved anything from smashing pumpkins, Nirvana, weezer, 90s rock, then I started singing in a classic rock band and my whole world opened up…started obsessing over Fleetwood Mac, anything by Lynard Skynard or Led Zeppelin…I love Hank Williams, Sr. Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, so I have a backwards evolution of…”
“What am I going to do beyond that? To go into nursing homes and women’s shelters and schools to be able to share my songs…that’s what I want to leave behind. That feeling, that moment and that experience.”
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Erica Sunshine Lee’s EP-Fire (REVIEW BY PLANET COUNTRY-ITALY)
Jan. 6, 2020
So like all great trilogies, be it Batman, Lord Of The Rings or Indiana Jones we come to the closing chapter, in this case musically with Erica Sunshine Lee’s Ep “Fire”. We call it a trilogy as the two preceding titles had been “Ready” and “Aim” respectively. In the fashion of any great trilogy, our Georgia girl brings together all the threads laid bare in the previous aforementioned Eps with an addition of zest, pep and energy. Case in point “Heat Wave” is reminiscent of what we had heard in “Ready” with that laidback more relaxed attitude, while “Boomerang” takes us back to the intimate and vulnerable Erica we had met in “Aim”, a particular mention for the lyrics to the latter, scathing as they are beautiful proving once again our songwriter’s strength in giving her listeners believable and a strong lyrics in a music world sometimes too populated with sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. So we come to the true meat of this latest offering, where Erica truly… (click here to read the full article)
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Read the up close and personal interview and learn about Erica Sunshine Lee, the Georgia Gypsy on this month’s edition of PHLOCKERS MAGAZINE. Aug. 2019
“Erica’s songs have that magical ability to take you places. She may be just starting to make her mark in the Tropical Rock genre, but should be around for a long time. Give her (music) a listen and catch a show. You’ll be glad you did.”
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG: ERICA SUNSHINE LEE “MOJITOS”
March 7, 2019 Tammy Camp
Erica Sunshine Lee is a successful singer / songwriter residing in Nashville, Tennessee. She’s released eight original albums and recently became a published author with her first children’s book “Butterfly.” Her music is a blend of country to pop with just the right amount of sass.
Her outgoing and warm personality is welcoming and her smile really does spread sunshine, as her name implies…click here for full article
Sonoma-index tribune writes….
“Rocksteady and Lee at Sonoma’s Hopmonk this weekend” nov. 15, 2018
This weekend brings two strong musical acts to HopMonk Sonoma. On stage Friday night, Nov. 16, is local guitarist Dan Martin. Saturday night’s show on Nov. 17 features a solo presentation by the “Georgia Gypsy” herself, Erica Sunshine Lee.
Dan Martin is a Sonoma Valley resident who moved here as a sophomore at Sonoma Valley High School. He formed his first band when he was just 17 years old. They were a band of musical friends, and it included Tony Gibson, who is still very active in the local music scene himself. Tapping into the ska sensibility, they played and punked around town for a couple of years. The band played at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma, and very often entertained the crowd at the Shop, the defunct youth-based venue that was on Eighth Street for a number of years.
Martin, now 38, has been playing with his Rocksteady band since 2012, when they jelled into a slow-groove dance band. With seven pieces, Rocksteady brings a pleasantly infectious smile to the crowd. Soon, there are feet on the floor, moving to the beat.
A solo album project is keeping Martin busy these days. Additionally, Rocksteady is working on another release. Martin and his band play a number of cover songs, but are primarily cutting originals that Martin has written over the last few years. While strumming his custom Telecaster, Martin, et al, also sample material from Toots and the Maytals and Alton Ellis. For his HopMonk show though, Martin will be doing it solo on the venue’s small stage. Admission is free and show time is 8 p.m.
Saturday night’s crowd will get to see Erica Sunshine Lee deliver her sunny and sassy songs. Playing her acoustic guitar, Lee sings songs of drinking, love, life and good times. She is particularly comfortable on stage and has great rapport with her audience, a result of her playing about 250 shows a year.
Lee has toured all over the world. Recently in Australia, she gave the crowd a taste of her song, “You Saved me”, that reached the Top 20 Down Under. A tour through Italy yielded a partnership with an Italian country band (yes, that’s right) who recorded her songs “Something to Dance To” and “What Turns Me On.”
Lee has an impressive list of accomplishments in the songwriting department. Her songs have been recorded by a number of Nashville artists, including Mark Bray and the Viper Creek Band.
She wrote and produced all the songs on the new EP by Raegan Willis, “Like Minded Strangers.”
She had the crowd at her July HopMonk show eating out of her hand after just a few minutes. “Chunky Dunk” had the women laughing and singing along with gusto. Lee strummed the opening chords to ‘Mojitos,’ and everybody chimed in….(click here to read the full article)
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