Kristen McNamara

She has been homeless, she been on TV, she attracts fairy tale like love stories and she has been heartbroken. Experiencing every high and low makes her the artist she is, Kristen McNamara (KMAC). A northern California native, is a countryfied beach hippie at heart who wears paint like perfume and creates abstract artwork to canvas on stage while performing music. Many have pointed out her free spirit and gypsy ways remind them of singer/songwriter Stevie Nicks. Raised on a small ranch, fishing, hunting and selling chicken eggs on the corner was not enough. At age 9 she started performing and writing, by 15 she was being offered major label record contracts, then moved out at age 16, to pursue her music career. Starting with funerals and small venues such as the Blue Bird Cafe, to a packed 68,000 seat arena with San Francisco 49ers and San Francisco Giants, then ending up as a top 3 finalist on CBS's Star Search in 2003. Kristen then performed 2 shows daily 6 days a week in Branson, MO