Tori Sparks

A singer and songwriter who bridges blues, folk, and rock and ventures into flamenco music, Tori Sparks is graced with a fiery, gutsy delivery worthy of Ani DiFranco. After emerging in 2003 with the EP Tidewaters, she released her first album, Rivers + Roads, in 2005. Third album The Scorpion in the Story (2009) favored an acoustic palette, and with her fifth album, El Mar (2014), she gave fresh context to her bluesy vocal style with flamenco music. Taken from a concert in Barcelona, her first live album, Wait No More, was issued in 2019. A 2021 vinyl reissue of El Mar coincided with the American's tenth anniversary of relocating from Nashville to Barcelona. ~ Marcy Donelson