Tarryn Aimée (pronounced “Em- AY”) is a singer-songwriter in the Nashville area who delivers a unique blend of Americana and jazz with pure, smooth vocals. She is a two-time winner in the International Acoustic Music Awards as well as a finalist in the USA Songwriting Competition and the Tennessee Songwriter’s Week, and she is up for the Best Vocal Jazz Song award at the 2025 Holiday Music and Film Awards. Her song Magical Christmas (co-written with Corey Lee Barker) will be featured in a holiday movie called "The Spirit Of Christmas Station," premiering on November 27th, 2025. The multi-instrumentalist has performed regularly at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville and other music venues, private parties, and festivals in the surrounding areas. In the spring of 2023, she performed at Detroit’s historic Sound Board Theater as a top 10 finalist in the inaugural Motown-themed Cover Song Contest hosted by Sylvia Moy’s Masterpiece Sound Studios and Sony Music Publishing. She loves to entertain audiences with popular songs from various decades and genres as well as her own unique originals, customizing her set according to the venue and occasion.
Many listeners have used the word “timeless” to describe songs that Tarryn has written. Bob Doerschuk, a reporter for Rolling Stone, Music Row, American Songwriter magazine and more, said “Most flowers in the garden of song are seasonal. Perennials, like Tarryn Aimée, are much rarer. Seasonals, you see, write for the moment. Perennials endure. That’s why people can still sing along to tunes by Irving Berlin or the Gershwin brothers from a century ago.”
Tarryn’s voice has an angelic clarity that some say is reminiscent of Allison Krauss or the late Eva Cassidy. A review by The Midwest Record of Tarryn’s “It Came To Me” EP released in 2020 said “Tarryn Aimée is an intimate, organic vocalist that hits it out of the park right from the start… knows just the right way to wrap your ears around her little finger. Sensitive and loaded with the kind of chops talent show contestants could learn a thing or two from, this singing writer is knowledgeable way beyond her years and shares it with us in fine form.”
The Hoosier-born singer-songwriter grew up in a musical family, singing and performing well known favorites by artists such as Olivia Newton John, the Carpenters, the Judds, and Amy Grant, and they also included some older classics from the 1940’s and 50’s by the likes of Doris Day and the McGuire Sisters in their shows.
While studying at Indiana University, Tarryn joined the traveling Singing Hoosiers and enjoyed learning classic tunes by the likes of Indiana composers Hoagie Carmichael and Cole Porter. After transferring to Belmont University in Nashville to follow her passion for music, she found herself immersed in a community of songwriters, and even more so once she began working at George Strait’s publishing company upon graduating. This community, along with feedback on her songs from Nashville’s Music Row publishing companies, gave her a strong foundation and inspiration for the craft. Tarryn signed a publishing deal for several years as a staff songwriter with Second City Music Publishing.
Through some of her co-writing friends, the singer-songwriter heard about the Nashville Jazz Workshop and decided to take some classes there as a vocalist as well as jazz guitar lessons with international touring artist, Suzahn Fiering. “Learning standards from the Great American Songbook expanded my knowledge of chords and greatly influenced the style of songs that I am now writing for myself as an artist,” Tarryn says.
With an eclectic mix of influences including music by singer-songwriters such as Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, James Taylor, and Norah Jones as well as the jazz standards sung by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, many of Tarryn’s originals could be described as a mixture of both Americana and Jazz. Hit-songwriter and author Corey Lee Barker recently coined Tarryn’s music as “Jazzicana”.
In addition to writing for herself as an artist, Tarryn has enjoyed some success co-writing songs for other artists, such as “I Found Life” that topped the Country-Christian and Bluegrass charts for Tonja Rose in 2021, as well as “Expecting Good Things”, the title cut of Jeff and Shari Easter's Grammy and Dove nominated album and the song they played as their live performance on the Gaither’s “Majesty” Homecoming CD and DVD set filmed in 2010.