Biography

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The Skyla Burrell Band is a full time, hardworking traveling blues band, known for their high-energy electric blues. Onstage and on record, they play 100% original material — singer/guitarist Skyla Burrell and co-founder/guitarist Mark Tomlinson share songwriting credits. For BLUES SCARS, their fifth album, and their first with the VizzTone label group, Skyla and the band bring their high energy style into the studio for a 15-song set of all new original material that reflects the ups and downs of life over the past few years.

Originally from Southern California, Skyla now makes her home in Southern Pennsylvania. She took to music early, ever since her grandmother sat her in front of the piano with a guitar. At age 15 she began singing with a classic soul band. Early on she was drawn to the stylings of female singers like Aretha, Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt; but as a guitarist her heroes were blues icons like B.B., Freddie and Albert King, as well as Robert Cray. As noted by the press, Skyla is more than just another pretty face with a great voice, she is an expressive and impressive guitarist too.

Co-founding guitarist Mark Tomlinson took a circuitous path to the band. Starting out as a drummer, he worked with the likes of John Lee Hooker and others before switching to guitar. Skyla and Mark formed the Skyla Burrell Band in 2004, and have been tearing it up ever since, with nearly non-stop touring across the US, Canada and Europe, (at one point securing the #1 top-booked band slot on Sonicbids), songwriting and recording. Their four previous albums– Working Girl Blues (2004), Living Day To Day (2006), Tough Luck (2008), and Real Love (2011) – have received regional, national and international airplay, and earned them a devoted following.