Noeline Hofmann
Noeline Hofmann is just 21 years old, but she’s already building a serious resume. Last year, the Bow Island, Alberta native turned heads with a moving performance of her breakthrough hit “Purple Gas” that reached the ears of one especially influential fan: country star Zach Bryan. He liked it so much, he recorded a collaborative version with Hofmann and included it on his No. 1 album, The Great American Bar Scene. The new version gave Hofmann her first Billboard Hot 100 hit, and her debut Purple Gas EP reached over 100 million global streams.
"I've been almost waiting for the last year to happen all my life," Hofmann told Billboard Canada at the beginning of the year. "It's what I've always been working towards and it kind of materialized tight under my fingers, which was just really unbelievable."
The accolades haven’t stopped. She’s been tapped by both Apple Music and Spotify as an artist to watch, recently won SiriusXM’s Top of the Country contest and even played the famed Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.
A rancher at heart, Hofmann brings her rural upbringing to all her songs, which infuses her Alberta cowgirl perspective into her music. "I'm so proud of where I'm from and proud to tell those stories,” she says. Whether she stays in Alberta or moves into the heart of Nashville, Hofmann’s gift for songwriting and performance will keep her breakthrough going long past this year.
