Biography

Noah Gabriel is a 25 year old singer/songwriter/guitarist from Aurora, IL (that’s right Wayne’s World). After years of watching and listening to his dad play guitar, Noah picked it up at the age of 12. By 15 he was performing in talent competitions and writing his own music. After high school, he got hooked into Chicago’s suburban scene, and by 20 he had his first record deal. The album In Aurora was released on Batavia-based Hidden Track Records, a label that one of his mentors, Dana French of Deluxury, had been signed to, and run by good friend Dennis Kintop. This album, released in January 2005, featured the debut of Noah’s band, and featured a duo with local legend Greg Boerner called Tonight. The album received great reviews and some airplay on local radio. Noah was also a semi-finalist in The Independent Music World Series.

2007 was a big year for Noah. He left Hidden Track to put out his second album independently with the help of his band. The band, featuring co-producer/guitarist Gary Belniak (Tyrant/Shadows of Knight), bassist Michael Addyman, drummer Tim Polite (Acousticity, The Byrds), keyboardist Bobby Scumacci (High Infidelity, Dave Mason), and their sound engineer Craig Whitaker, pulled together and Noah released his second album Truth, Love, Faith, and Soul in March of 2007 at the age of 23. The mixing and mastering was done at Chicago’s Uptown Recording Studio. The album once again received great reviews. Erin Carmen of 97.9 The Loop (WLUP) said, “Noah is one of the most captivating artists since Ian Moore,” and it received airplay in Chicago, nationally and overseas.

In the summer of 2007, Noah won Batavia’s Art In Your Ear Competition in the category of best blues song, and won 2nd place in Arkansas’ Ozark Mountain Blues Society Challenge, held in Fayetteville. Recently Noah was also involved in Acoustic Chicago which is a CD/DVD compilation put together by Chris Steinmetz, head engineer at Chicago Recording Company (CRC), and his new indie label, Stonecutter Records. This album was released in November 2007, and features some of Chicago’s brightest rising stars including The Lovehammers, Sarah Potenza, Scottish McMillan, Malcolm Palmer, and many more. While working on this project, Noah recorded and worked with Ernie Adams, drummer for jazz legend Al DiMeola, Howard Levy, founding member of Bella Fleck and the Flecktones, and many other amazing musicians. Noah was one of the few artists with more than one song and video on the compilation, and was also hired to do session work for fellow artist Malcolm Palmer.

Noah seems to be in constant evolution as a singer/songwriter/guitarist. Already a prolific songwriter, and never wanting to be comfortable, he keeps on pushing himself. He is now back in the studio with his band and new addition Andrew Szymanski taking over on drums. They are finishing up his third album, Crooked, which you can download two exclusive preview tracks on Noah's music page.