Anne E. DeChant

"DeChant is first and last a story-teller, an artist who writes with a shit-kicker urgency and sweet understanding of the people who stumble and keep keeping on.”
— Frye Gaillard. author, A Hard Rain, NPR Best Books 2018

Anne E. DeChant is a Nashville recording artist originally from Avon Lake, Ohio, a 5-time winner of Cleveland's Singer-Songwriter of the Year, and a 2020 Kerrville Folk Festival Songwriting Competition Finalist (24 selected from a field of 700).

She has performed with Melissa Etheridge, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Nicks, Don Henry, Travis Meadows, and was the selected local artist at Lilith Fair (Cleveland 1999). She has delivered stand out shows in storied venues ranging from the Bluebird Café, The Bitter End, Evening Muse, The Alabama Country Music Hall of Fame to The Clinton White House.

DeChant began her career as the dynamic lead singer of Cleveland fan favorite, Odd Girl Out, before becoming the powerhouse she is today with nine studio album releases to her credit. Her masterfully crafted, poignant songs create worlds where her characters and their stories spring to life with a commanding voice and perfectly nuanced delivery.

Anne E. released her latest Nashville produced recording "Every Little Everything" in 2020, after a successful Indiegogo Campaign that raised over $17,000 in 2 weeks. Her prior fan-funded release, “The Sun Coming In”, which climbed to #6 on the Roots Music Report’s national chart, and its first single “Sunday Morning Drive”, to #1.