Deborah Crooks has released several collections of critically noted original music, including her latest 9-song collection I Was Yours. Born and raised in California, Deborah grew up surrounded by nature, but close enough to San Francisco to be influenced by the city’s history of social, musical and political upheaval. Place-based and rooted in practice, her work has evolved over her years studying natural history at UC Santa Cruz, writing and poetics at The Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO; voice and yoga in Mysore, India, and co-writing and collaborating with her Bay Area peers. Her most recent project is an avian-themed folk opera about Peregrine Falcons and people called ‘Flight Lessons.’

Along with her solo musical work, she co-founded the band Bay Station and its "Love the Bay" Music & Sailing video series with Kwame Copeland.