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Suzanna Choffel is an American singer-songwriter from Austin, TX. Her music is best categorized as "indie pop", with influences drawing from R&B, world (Brazilian, reggae), and rock. Choffel has independently released two albums, Shudders & Rings (2006) produced by Stephen Orsak and Steady Eye Shaky Bow (2011) produced by Danny Reisch. She has won numerous songwriting contests, including the International Songwriting Competition and Wildflower Songwriting Contest.

Choffel was born March 4th, 1980 at Seton Hospital in Austin, TX to Barbara Marie Adkisson and Kenneth Leo Choffel. She has two sisters Julie Choffel (poet/creative-writing professor at UCONN) and Lizzie (Elizabeth) Choffel (paralegal). Choffel went to high school at Stephen F. Austin High School in downtown Austin, where she sang in the choir and played varsity basketball. She sang in the local teen band Red-Headed Step-Child between 1993-1994 and played at Saxon Pub and The Broken Spoke, two iconic Austin clubs. In 1998 Choffel enrolled at Southwest Texas State University (now called Texas State University) where she studied liberal arts and performed in local San Marcos bands The Humblebums and Liquid Stereo Project. In the fall of 2000 she transferred to College of Santa Fe in New Mexico to pursue a music degree. It was there that she dove into world music studies, sound recording and production, theory & composition, and vocal & guitar studies. She graduated Cum Laude in 2003 with a BA in Music Technology.

Choffel moved back to Austin, TX in 2003.