Whitney Wolanin

Singer, songwriter, pianist Whitney had a very busy 2012. Her hit single "Honesty" which she composed and arranged, spent over 36 weeks on the MediaBase & BDS/Billboard Mainstream Adult Contemporary Charts, peaking at #21. She had another hit in December 2012 with her rendition of "Frosty the Snowman (2012)," which went Top 20, peaking at #13 on Billboard/BDS. More recently, Whitney released her single, "Wrong Guy (I Did It This Time)" to Mainstream Adult Contemporary Radio the week of February 11th 2013. Whitney wrote, recorded, and mixed "Wrong Guy".

Growing up in Florida, Wolanin first told her father of her desire to record an album when she was 11. When she was 13, her father relented, and over her summer break she recorded an album with her father's personal friend, Bob Babbitt (second-string bassist-after James Jamerson-for Motown's studio group, The Funk Brothers), in Nashville. The album, Funkology XIII, released two years later in 2005, was made up of twelve R&B covers (mostly of Motown origin) and one original. In late 2005, Wolanin released "Christmas (The Warmest Time of the Year)"-another original she co-wrote with Babbitt and her father. The song made FMQB's Top 100 airplay chart at #87. The following year, Wolanin released her second album, Christmasology, a collection of Christmas songs recorded in 2005. Christmasology featured 15 songs. "Frosty" was the Most Added Christmas song at radio in the weeks of November 5, 2006 and November 19, 2006. In December 2006, "Frosty" peaked at #11 on R&R's Media Base Top 40 Radio Airplay Charts, and was played on over 800 radio stations.

Wolanin released a six-song EP, Girl, in 2009, composed of six songs written both by herself and with her sister, some dating to when she was 13 years old. An acoustic version of that EP's "So Close" was included on the compilation album Majic Miracle Music Vol. 3, a benefit for the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children.

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