Anna Maria Rosales spent her formative years playing bass in bands in her native El Paso, Texas, worked her way into a gig touring internationally playing bass, and spent three years on the road in Europe and both North and South America. She eventually put down roots in Los Angeles and immersed herself in the music scene of her new hometown. While playing all those gigs on bass, Rosales’ strong back-up vocals prompted many people to encourage her to step up to the mic and release an album under her own name, and her 2014 record, Washed Up On Your Shore, put her front and center. Years of paying dues on stages in L.A. and around the world allowed her to get top notch players to contribute to the record, and they provide the perfect setting to showcase her pleasing and earthy alto. But it was the tragedy of losing her sister to breast cancer in 2013 that gives the album gravitas by leaving a giant hole in her life that Rosales could only begin to fill with the healing power of music.