David Ramirez is an American singer-songwriter from Houston and based in Austin, Texas. His writing sits in sparse Americana and folk, with acoustic songs and a focus on heartache, personal struggle and hope. He performs both solo and with accompaniment, and he has spent more than a decade developing a style centred on searching, direct songwriting.

Ramirez’s album Apologies marks a shift in subject matter from relationship breakdown towards broader questions of faith, recovery and moving forward. It includes “An Introduction,” a song about standing in a Roman cathedral and looking for God, and “Goodbye,” an acoustic guitar-and-voice track about ending a relationship. He says he worked on these songs, and others on the record, for a couple of years before deciding what the album would say.

He has played clubs, theaters and listening rooms across the United States, and his work draws notice for the emotional weight of his characters and performance. Paste describes him as “the best damn songwriter you don’t know yet,” and The Civil Wars praise him as “soulful, stirring, heartbreaking.”

Ramirez is also connected with Glorietta and Hypnolovewheel.