BIOGRAPHY

Lily Frost is a songwriter, singer, performer, recording artist and storyteller. She has spent her life turning experience into language, melody and atmosphere. Her songs inhabit the places where beauty and unrest meet, transforming grief, desire, motherhood, memory and the strange but beautiful theatre of being human into something luminous.

Frost began singing in Montreal before moving west and becoming part of Vancouver’s vibrant 1990s Cocktail Nation. As the voice of The Colorifics, she released three albums and helped shape the band’s distinctive world of lounge, jazz and cinematic pop. She later signed with Nettwerk Records as a solo artist, beginning a recording career that has now spanned 12 albums, three decades and international touring.

Moving freely through indie pop, cinematic folk, jazz, western swing and the darker edges of Americana, Frost has created a body of work that resists easy categorization. She was nominated for a Gemini Award for co-writing the theme song for the hit television series Being Erica. Her music has also appeared in Grey’s Anatomy, Workin’ Moms, Disney’s Crazy/Beautiful, Felicity, Degrassi, The Bay and numerous films, television productions and advertising campaigns around the world.

For Frost, songwriting has never been merely a profession. It is a form of emotional alchemy, a way of moving difficult feelings through the body and returning them to the world as something beautiful, honest and useful. Her writing has a particular interest in women’s inner lives and emotional well-being, exploring motherhood, autonomy, inherited patterns, recovery, identity and the reclamation of one’s voice.

That same instinct informs her work as a facilitator, artist mentor and leader of songwriting workshops, where she helps others locate their own creative language and trust what wants to emerge.

Frost is also a radio host, mother and published author, with a collection of poetry forthcoming. She is now beginning a new chapter at the CREATE Institute, studying psychotherapy and expressive arts therapy and exploring how creative expression can help people process experience, reconnect with themselves and transform emotional pain.

Whether she is writing a song, shaping a story, mentoring an emerging artist or speaking into a microphone, her work begins in the same place: listening closely, looking beneath the surface and finding the song hidden inside the experience.