What band or musician is most important to you:

Ooookay. Weird question. My sister is a musician. She's pretty important to me.

Or did you mean whose music is most important to me?

Or which musicians are my favorite?

All right, all right, I kinda get the question... I just like being difficult.

My former piano teacher is one of the most important musician figures to me. I respect her deeply, aspire to her talent, and value her judgement in musical matters above anyone else's I know. I also love her as a person, and strive to be the encouraging, fun person to younger people that she was/is to me.

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I love Taryn Harbridge's talent, sweetness, and enthusiasm:

https://youtu.be/Y4D7rT4WLHE

Judy Rogers has got to be my favorite Christian songwriter (sorry, Andrew Peterson, man, I still love your stuff)

https://youtu.be/Ecz2nVhxQBI

And then, Peterson still is pretty amazing. His songs have given me unexpected degrees of comfort in tough times.

That's all my sleepy brain can think of. Hope you enjoyed the listen.