Zsuzsanna Eva Ward (born June 2, 1986) is an American singer-songwriter.

Ward released her debut EP, Criminal, on May 8, 2012. Her debut album, Til the Casket Drops, was released on October 16, 2012. "Put The Gun Down", her first single, broke into the top 10 on the AAA radio chart on February 3, 2013,^[2] staying there for 10 weeks, and also broke into the top 40 on the Billboard Alternative chart. On March 2, 2017, Ward released the single "The Deep" (featuring Joey Purp). Her second studio album, The Storm, was released on June 30, 2017, peaking at number 1 on the Billboard Blues Albums Chart in July 2017.

 

 

 

Ward grew up in Roseburg, Oregon.^[3] In Roseburg, she joined her first band, with her father, at the age of 12.^[4] Ward recalled the first song she sang was "an Albert King track called 'As the Years Go Passing By'".^[5]

Ward's maternal grandmother, Zsuzsanna Friedman, was a Jewish Hungarian who converted to Catholicism to avoid persecution during the Holocaust. On discovering this, Ward, who grew up in a secular household, took an interest in reclaiming her Jewish roots.^[6]

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