BIOGRAPHY
Sharon Katharine Van Etten, born February 26, 1981, grew up in New Jersey and briefly studied recording at Middle Tennessee State University before dropping out. After a personal crisis, she returned to New Jersey and worked as a sommelier, then relocated to Brooklyn, where she began performing in small venues and distributing hand-painted CD-Rs of her songs. TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone heard her music and encouraged her to pursue it seriously, and she went on to intern, then work as a publicist, at Ba Da Bing Records. Her 2009 debut, Because I Was in Love, led to a deal with Jagjaguwar, where 2012's Tramp broadened her audience. Are We There (2014) earned some of that year's highest critical acclaim, and Remind Me Tomorrow (2019) appeared on 24 major publications' best-of-2019 lists. Her seventh album, Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory (2025), received universal praise on Metacritic. She has also starred as Rachel in Netflix's The OA and appeared in films including Never Rarely Sometimes Always.