Biography

LaTresa Smith (guitar, singer, songwriter) was born in Florence, AL and grew up all over the South singing with a family band "The Hester Brothers", her minister father and his minister brothers, performing traditional country and southern Gospel music. She remembers listening to bluegrass music on Saturday nights in an old store front in Mississippi and dreaming of having a bluegrass band of her own one day. She moved out West as a young adult, then returned to the south for ten years in the bluegrass state of Kentucky, until settling in Nashville, TN in 2003. She has been writing songs since she was ten years old. Free Spirit is her first bluegrass CD featuring 12 original progressive bluegrass tunes. She formed her band The Signal shortly after completing the project and has consistently received positive reviews on this freshman project. Her second project Love, Babies, Jesus and Sweet Potato Pie features her and the band and reveals more of her Delta blues roots.