Hannah Brine

Brine's performance and songwriting genres include folk, pop, and jazz. She has had numerous collaborations with songwriters that include Michael Garvin, Emily Phillips, and Jeff Franzel.^[1]

Hannah released her debut album Blue Sky Now in June 2025, with a tour across the UK.^[2] Early pre-release reviews of the album cited it as "absolutely delightful" ^[3] and that "it digs deep into life’s quiet heartbreaks, hard-won joys, and the bittersweet moments we often scroll past".^[4] Further reviews mention “Brine's voice is distinguished by its clarity, warmth and an inviting, rounded tone that draws the listener in”^[5] and “Hannah’s honey toned voice caresses the melodies imbuing the words with a lightness of touch”.^[6] Hannah was interviewed about her forthcoming album & launch gigs by Robert Elms on BBC Radio London on June 20, and two tracks from the album, Cobwebs & Lace and the title track Blue Sky Now, were also played.^[7]

Brine has sung in many venues including: The Birmingham Jazz Festival, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, The Pheasantry in London,^[8] and both the Buxton Festival (where Brine supported Rumer (musician) in 2025) ^[9] and the Buxton Fringe Festival,^[10][11] where her performance won her the ‘Best Solo Vocal’ award in 2024 & 2025.^[12][13][14] Brine lead the Summer Sundae choir in 2010, three years after organising her own choir in Leicester. She has also lead the Wilderness festival choir for the last six years.^[15]

Brine has performed alongside various artists including Gary Barlow, the lead singer of Take That.^[16]

She has written with and performed alongside record producer Boo Hewerdine and singer, songwriter, musician and record producer Clive Gregson. Brine has co-written a song with singer-songwriter Daisy Chute on their collaboration "Spirit of the Singers", which is also on Brine's Live at Fiction Studios EP.^[17]

Brine also wrote and sang vocals on You and I, for Ciaran McAauley & Roger Shah. This was Beatport Trance number 1 song in April 2022.^[18]

In 2019 Brine and DJs Genix and Ian Kerr climbed Mount Everest to break a record with the aid of a turntable deck. They also raised funds for Whizz Kids to assist mobile children to be more mobile with the assistance of a wheelchair.^[19]

Brine released a song to chronicle World Book Day in 2023.^[20]

She is one of the songwriters of the Cypriot entry in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Tbilisi, Georgia.^[21]

Brine is the founder of a number of choirs which include Didsbury Singers, Walthamstow Singers, Victoria Park Singers (founded in 2013),^[22] Finsbury Park Singers (founded 2018),^[23] Finsbury A Cappella, Forest Gate Singers (2025), Fosse Singers (2007), Bollington Singers (founded 2023), and High Peak Singers (2022). In 2015 Brine was nominated by various members of her choir and honoured as a BBC Music Day Unsung Hero for her work and innovation with community choirs, empowering voices to be able to express themselves via the medium of song.^{[24][25][26][27]}

Brine organised and trained choirs for the 2016 Royal Variety Show and was also one of the choir members who performed with Gary Barlow; in addition, she coordinated a choir performance to support the Calendar Girls (musical) cast at the 2017 Olivier Awards.^[28] Brine's choirs have performed with Andre J. Thomas and the London Symphony Orchestra and at the BBC Proms in 2019 in John Luther Adams' work ‘In the Name of the Earth’.^[29]