Background
Cahoone is the daughter of Bill Cahoone, a Rocky Mountain dynamite salesman, and Judy Cahoone (née Ahrendts), a business executive. Cahoone grew up in Littleton, Colorado.
Cahoone is the daughter of Bill Cahoone, a Rocky Mountain dynamite salesman, and Judy Cahoone (née Ahrendts), a business executive. Cahoone grew up in Littleton, Colorado.
She attended and graduated from Columbine High School a few years before the Columbine High School massacre.
Cahoone"s music combines elements of both classic country-western and modern indie rock and lo-fi. She is also well known for her work as a drummer, especially with the band Band of Horses. Cahoone said that she was raised by a single mother.
Cahoone got her musical start on the drums at twelve years old.
She had taken up drumming to combat anxiety, and found she had a talent and affinity for the instrument. She also played her brother"s guitar and sang, but not in public at that time.
Her first stage performance came in a North Denver bar called Ziggie"s Saloon (near the Oriental Theater). She played drums behind a bunch of bluesmen at an open mic night.
Drumming career
In 1998, at the age of twenty-one, Cahoone moved to Seattle, Washington, as the snowboarding shop where she worked in Colorado ended up opening a retail store in Washington state.
She worked there for two years until quitting, working in a coffee shop and focusing on playing music Cahoone was the drummer in the band Carissa"s Wierd until they broke up in 2003. After that, Cahoone played drums with various bands including Los Angeles singer-songwriter Patrick Park and most notably, Band of Horses.
Cahoone has also played drums with Panda and Angel and Betsy Olson.
She recorded selected tracks of the critically acclaimed Band of Horses debut record, Everything All The Time, as a session player. Solo recording career
= Sera Cahoone In 2006, Cahoone began to release solo work.
Her first album was a self-released, self-title record called Sera Cahoone, which was praised by indie-rock radio station KEXP along with National Public Radio. Seattle indie newspaper The Stranger called Sera’s debut "a breathtaking collection of sad and dusky songs that reveal an artist of remarkable depth as well as a truly stunning voice."
= Only As The Day Is Long In 2007, Cahoone was signed to the Seattle label Sub People’s Records which was home to former Carissa’s Weird band mates Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses) and later Mat Brooke (Grand Archives). Cahoone"s second album, Only As The Day Is Long, was released in 2008.
= Deer Creek Canyon Sera and her band recorded her second Sub People’s record, Deer Creek Canyon, in February 2012 at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington, over a two-week period with Los Angeles producer Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Vetiver).
Additional vocals and tracking were done in Los Angeles over several weeks in early March. The record was released September 25, 2012. Touring
Cahoone has toured with Son Volt, Matt Costa, Band of Horses, Grand Archives, Sea Wolf, Patrick Park, Beachwood Sparks, Fruit Bats, Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar.
She has opened for Lucinda Williams, Okkervil River, Mary Gauthier and Joe Pug.
Rapinoe and Cahoone announced their engagement in August 2015.