DANA JEAN PHOENIX
"The much beloved synth siren Dana Jean Phoenix is back with her third, long-awaited full length album, 'Synth City'."
-New Retro Wave
"Phoenix has the attitude and funk of the eighties brought into the modern age..." -Brutal Resonance
"Classic sounding ElectroPop goodness" -- Electronic Rumors
Dana Jean Phoenix is a synthwave singer/songwriter from Toronto. Dana attended the nationally renown Humber College Contemporary Music Program in Toronto and graduated the Musical Theatre program at Sheridan College. While at college, she would go to every open mic night she could find.
Dana Jean then went on to perform with Melanie Durrant and Jully Black. Dana Jean toured internationally as the front woman for the Juno-Nominated band God Made me Funky, and has appeared at the Montreal Jazz Festival, Calgary Stampede, Ottawa Bluesfest, Toronto Beaches International Festival, NXNE (12), Canadian Music Week, New York M.E.A.N.Y Festival, and Cincinnati’s Midpoint Music Festival. She has appeared on Breakfast Television, Etalk, Canadian Idol, and Canada AM and has also shared the stage with the likes of Fergie, Mariah Carey, John Legend, Natasha Bedingfield, Kardinal Offishall, Joe, Divine Brown, and Suzanne Vega.
After being featured on PerezHilton.com by the celeb blogger, for winning 2nd Place in the Perez Hilton 'Can You Sing Competition', Dana received a tweeted shout out from hip-hop megastar Nicki Minaj for her A Capella version of Minaj’s hit ‘Starships’. Dana has garnered over 1 Million views on YouTube.
Dana has gained a following in the international synthwave scene, collaborating with Dreamwave and Darksynth heavyweights as GosT, Perturbator, Timecop1983, Highway Superstar, and Sunglasses Kid. Her original music has been featured on 'The Voice' (US), and the 'Inside Amy Schumer', and her collaboration with Dutch dreamwave artist Timecop1983 'Dreams (Feat. Dana Jean Phoenix)', was featured in the Netflix original films 'You Get Me' and 'Coin Heist', and is featured in the PS4/PC Game 'Crossing Souls', an old-school action adventure with RPG touches.
Her first full-length album ‘Drrty Shooz’, sophomore album, 'Le Mirage', and third album 'Synth City' have landed in the top 10 of the !earshot National Electronic Charts and her song 'Digital Life (RWR Remix)' was a semi-finalist in the 2017/2018 Canadian Songwriting Competition. The albums feature production from synthwave stalwarts such as: Timecop1983, Highway Superstar, Robots With Rayguns, The Northern Lights, Silent Gloves, Patrick Gill, S.T.R.S.G.N, Till Wild, London Lazers, and The Amazing Mr. S.
FROM 2018-2023, Dana's EuropeAN and north american TOURS included sold-out shows in Vienna, Warsaw, London, Stockholm, darmstadt, tuscany, bristol, glasgow, san francisco, philadelphia, rhode island, ottawa and toronto . Dana played her first US dates in Philadelphia, Rhode Island, and San Francisco. Dana's latest collab album ‘MEGAWAVE’ was co-created with powernerd and released on outland recordings.
Dana is also a theatre performer and has recently toured south africa and barbados as the role of ‘betty paris’ in nicole Brook's Obeah Opera. now based in wales, uk and continues to write for television, theatre, and for other artists. after a long hiatus from releasing solo music to pursue other musical projects and theatre, she is currently in the studio working on new synth music.
