Oliver Sayani - Singer, Songwriter, Session Player, Student, Instructor

Oliver Sayani is a singer songwriter, guitarist, and musician who has carved his unique style out of Appalachian music, jazz and rock n roll. A member of the Heartland Songwriters Association of Kentucky, he has written over 70 songs, recorded multi-instrumentally on several albums, including 3 albums of his original music while managing and fronting the band Blind Feline. In addition he has composed and recorded on other mediums such as short film “Girl in the Red Dress” and Pulitzer Prize winning poetry album “Songs of Bloody Harlan” by Kentucky Poet Laureate Lee Pennington. He has played close to two hundred shows across Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Georgia in the past four years including performances on Red Barn Radio, Central Park Amphitheater, and the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame. A graduate of the University of Louisville Jazz program under award winning guitar instructor Craig Wagner, he honed his ears and skills across genres and techniques such as various fingerpicking and flat picking styles in jazz and bluegrass music. His sultry and twangy voice is the ideal medium to deliver meaningful storylines through haunting and lazy melodies wrapped in catchy songs with classic feels. Now pursuing a Masters in Fine Arts at Middle Tennessee State University, he’s studying recording while working as a freelance musician, session player and guitar instructor.