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Singer/songwriter Shannon O'Connor developed an interest in music as a child growing up in Pittsburgh, but then became an art student at Parsons School of Design in New York City.
An ardent environmentalist, she left Parsons to travel the country studying with the Audobon Expedition Institute, and encountered folk music on her journeys. She returned to Parsons and finished her degree, then attended Eugene Lang College where she studied writing with Sekou Sundiata at the same time as another of Sundiata's students, Ani DiFranco. Settling in North Carolina, O'Connor became a single mother. The ambitious goal of her debut album, Low in Paradise, released in July 2005 by Varrga Records, was to use it to locate the father of her by-then ten-year-old daughter. ~ William Ruhlmann