A SHERO's Journey: Shana Cleveland

Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and
bandleader Shana Cleveland cut her teeth in Chicago before heading
to the Pacific Northwest which is where she would form the
psychedelic surf-rock band La Luz in Seattle a decade ago as their
lead guitarist and songwriter. Meanwhile Shana also was fronting a
folkier band called The Sandcastles as a vehicle for her other
passion - acoustic fingerpicking - and couple years after releasing
La Luz’s 2013 full length debut, It’s Alive, Shana put out her solo
debut as Shana Cleveland and The Sandcastles, Oh Man, Cover the
Ground, followed by 2019’s Night of the Worm Moon, under her
own name. La Luz has since put out three more albums - most
recently their critically hailed 2021 self titled album, but in
January 2022 Shana was diagnosed with breast cancer, and their tour
was cut short. Now just over a year later, Shana Cleveland has
returned with a gorgeous new solo album called Manzanita, inspired
by the nature of her new home surroundings in California, and her
first pregnancy and birth of her son.