Paloma Rush

Paloma Rush was born in Monterey California and got her start in music at the tender age of 6 after her first leading role in “The Littlest Christmas Tree” play and a feature on a popular children’s album. Displaying an unusually mature understanding of music, performance, and studio recording she started singing and piano lessons right away. After countless talent shows, plays and contests, she started writing her own songs at age 14. That same year her parents relocated to Queretaro, Mexico where she joined her first band and performed in some of Queretaro’s most popular venues and nightclubs.After returning to California several years later, she was a top 5 finalist in the Miss Teen California Pageant, winning second place for the “talent” category withher rendition of The Star Spangled Banner. Through her remaining years of highschool she sang in a band which won Battle of the Bands locally. Simultaneously she started vocal training with Linda Purdy, A Metropolitan Opera singer and award winning vocalist. Paloma attended UC Santa Cruz where she continued classical voice training, formed Latin Pop group Paloma and the Rubies, performing shows at the Catalyst Mainstage alongside Rebelution and Collie Buddz. As a budding recording artist, her voice was featured on the worldwide demo of the Antares Harmony Engine, made popular by Imogen Heap and Jason Derulo. During her junior year of college, she was signed to Sound Management Inc, an artist management company managing acts Smash Mouth, t.A.T.u. and KekePalmer.Through Sound Management she was able to write and record with their network of producers, helping to form her sound that you hear today. She toured with Natalia Kills of Cherrytree/Interscope records as the opening act for Robyn’s National Body Talk Tour.She then formed the Bay Area electro hip hop group, The P-JAYZ, who went on to release an album, and performed at Van’s Warped Tour at Shoreline Amphitheatre and sold out numerous California venues, alongside acts such as Far East Movement and Andre Nickatina. During this time, she also started training as a vocal coach at The Keith Holland School of Music in Los Gatos, CA.After graduating college, Paloma moved to Los Angeles California, where she has been writing, recording and releasing Latin, RnB and pop music. She writes songs for her own projects, for other artists, and also for commercial TV and film licencing. Her songs have been featured on shows and film such as MTV “Real World,” FOX “Bones,” E!’ “Keeping up With The Kardashians,” The CW “Jane the Virgin,” Oxygen “Bad Girls Club,” E! “So Cosmo,” FX “Pose,” Lionsgate release “Hunter’s Moon,” FOX “Our Kind of People” and most recently The CW “All American.”