Mary Hoffman - Singer-songwriter
Anyone who is a live country music fan in Arizona has heard of Mary Hoffman! She has been playing music around Arizona for over 10 years and is still one of Arizona's best vocalists. "Every show I do...I put everything into it! I want people to have as much fun as I do! I just love playing music!" she says.
As far as her projects go, Mary is currently working on her 2nd studio release, I'm Good Company.
"I am so proud of this new album! In the past couple years, I have really grown to love the feel of acoustic music and even though this CD has a full band sound, I still wanted to preserve the acoustic feel and I think we accomplished that." The CD is set for release in September of 2012.
Mary began her career by singing at a talent show in high-school. She sang, You were meant for me by Jewel and was henceforth known as "the Jewel girl" around school. She was actually voted "Most likely to be a Rockstar" her senior year. After the talent show, to get rid of her horrible stage fright, Mary started playing at coffee shop open-mic nights in Mesa, AZ and they eventually led to paying gigs. Mary graduated from ASU in 2004 with a B.S. Degree in Communication and got a "real" job, but still had music always on her mind. Mary didn't want to give up on her singing dreams, so with the support of her husband, quit her job and went to doing music full time and has never looked back. Since then, some of her musical accomplishments include:
In 2008, Mary won the Kenny Chesney, “Next Big Star” competition for the Phoenix round and was the warm up for Kenny Chesney at the University of Phoenix Stadium.
In 2009, Mary also won the Chicks with Picks “Next Talented Chick” contest and got a spot to warm up for Michelle Branch and Sarah Buxton at Tempe Town Lake.
She has also warmed up at the Queen Creek Performing Arts Center for Phil Vassar and Ryan Shupe and the Rubberband.
In 2011, Mary sang the National Anthem in front of 60,000 people at the Fabulous Phoenix 4th Celebration.
Mary has also been on the Ben and Matt Morning Show on 102.5 FM KNIX, on ABC 15 News, Arizona Midday on NBC Channel 12, Fox 10 Arizona Morning, Good Morning Arizona on Channel 3, and was the Arizona State University Idol for 2004.
