Farah Alvin has been making a name for herself in the recording and theater world for over 15 years. She began her performing career at the ripe old age of 10, performing her one woman show around the cabarets and gay bars of Los Angeles. As a teenager, she was awarded the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Award for Pop/Musical Theater Vocals, the first ever NFAA YoungARTS Level One Award for Pop Vocals, and was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts by the White House Commission for Presidential Scholars for which she sang for President Bill Clinton at the Kennedy Center.

Recently, Farah returned to the DC area where she played the role of Ginny in the world premier Ricky Ian Gordon musical Sycamore Trees at the Signature Theatre in Arlington Virginia, directed by Tina Landau. Sycamore Trees was named one of Peter Marks’ Top Ten Shows of 2010 by the Washignton Post and won the Helen Hayes Award for Best Ensemble.

with Colin Hanlon in I Love You Because Off-Broadway.In New York, Farah starred as Georgia in the new musical The Tenth Floor in the 2010 New York Musical Theater Festival for which she received a 2010 Talkin’ Broadway Festival Citation for Best Actress. Also in New York, Farah starred as Missy Miller in the hit Off-Broadway show The Marvelous Wonderettes for which she received a 2009 Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical. She has appeared on Broadway in Grease!, Saturday Night Fever, The Look of Love: The Music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, the Tony Award wining revivial of Nine, and Madison Square Garden’s A Christmas Carol. Off-Broadway credits include the recent cult hit I Love You Because, Cam Jansen and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Other Story Books for TheatreworksUSA, and Jewish Repertory Theater’s revival of Kuni-Leml.

She has performed as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestras of Indianapolis, Detroit, Seattle, Nashville, Fort Worth, Phoenix, Toronto and the National Symphonies of both Canada and the United States. Her recording work includes Sorta Love Songs – The Songs of Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel, Hallways: The Songs of Carol Hall, Varesse Sarabande’s Burt Bacharach Album, William Finn: Infinite Joy, Jekyll and Hyde (Original Concept Album), the Original Cast Recordings of The Marvelous Wonderettes, I Love You Because and Kuni-Leml, and others. Farah has worked extensively as a session singer for jingles and theme songs since the age of 12 and has long been the woman to call when a writer needs someone who can “sing anything.”

The cover of Farah Alvin: Someday.Now an accomplished songwriter, Farah spends much of her performance time singing her own music backed by her band The Farah Alvin Orchestra. Her unique sound combines a soulful voice with thoughtful, contemplative, ironically funny lyrics. Farah's music is topical and contemporary but will remind you of artists from the 1960's when songwriters emerged as popular artists. Her debut album “someday,” released in 2003, is available for purchase at cdbaby.com and at live concert performances and will soon be digitally distributed for individual song downloads.