SARA HICKMAN BIO Sara has donated over $50,000 from the sale of her cd “Newborn” to the Hill Country Youth Ranch (Ingram, TX). She has been a two time guest of NBC's "The Tonight Show", produced and created over 15 albums (for adults and children), appeared numerous times on VH-1 (including her own special, "In Your Face"), runs a design firm (Stingray) as an art director/photographer with three other partners; runs the distribution and everyday activities of Sleeveless, her independent record label; won numerous awards for her music and humanitarian involvement, including: first place in the USA Film Festival for her self-produced independent video, "Joy", about a homeless woman she befriended, and she will be the Official State Musician of Texas from May 2010-May 2011, as decreed by the Texas State Legislature. Sara is also on the roster of the International Speaker's Bureau, where she relishes delivering positive, inspiring messages; creator of a teen band called Super Pal Universe, who performed at Austin City Limits Festival and SXSW. She has sung on a variety of commercials: Daisy Sour Cream, Wal-Mart, Southwest Airlines. Sara has been on major labels and indie labels. You know how it goes. In 2008, while touring "Motherlode", her last adult cd, Sara was also co-producer of a year long, once a month event visiting Texas cities with “Music For Life”, in which she brought speakers and musicians together to start the dialogue on the death penalty in the state of Texas. In 2010, she will release a documentary on the death penalty, her new cd, "Absence of Blame," an animated DVD for children, release "Best of Times" (a compilation cd of Sara songs sung by other awesome Texas musicians, including Asleep at the Wheel, Marcia Ball, Shawn Colvin, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, Rhett Miller (Old 97s), David Garza, Ruthie Foster and more), with proceeds going to help non-profit arts groups that go into Texas schools and teach theatre, music an art... and she will introduce Family Time Rocks!, a band/cd/ concept that helps families learn to create together, so they do great together! FTR! will have "Family Time Rocks! Night!" where families can come out to dance to live music by the band, and create Family Time Rocks! boxes that share ideas on how to have fun together creatively as families. Most of all, she loves her husband, two daughters, and her little dog, Lucky and cat, Mimi.