Samantha Fish

Born: 30 January 1989

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Years Active: 2009–present

Genre/s: Blues rock, roots rock, blues

Label/s: Ruf, Rounder

Samantha Fish (born January 30, 1989) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter from Kansas City, Missouri. While she is often cited as a blues artist, Fish's work features and draws from multiple genres, including rock, country, funk, bluegrass, and ballads.

Among other awards, she has received two Grammy Best Contemporary Blues Album nominations, for her 2023 collaboration with Jesse Dayton titled Death Wish Blues and for her 2025 album Paper Doll.

Fish grew up in the Kansas City area. She started out playing the drums, but switched to guitar when she was 15. Fish's mother was the instructor in a local church choir, and her father played guitar with friends. Initially hearing recordings of Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Ray Vaughan, she later heard music from Tom Petty and the Rolling Stones and cites the Stones' album Sticky Fingers as an early influence. She and her sister were both drawn towards blues music in their teenage years.

Fish regularly went to the Knuckleheads Saloon to hear touring blues artists. After turning 18, she often joined in with the singers and bands who were performing there.