Noeline Hofmann

Noeline Hofmann is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Bow Island, Alberta. She gained popularity for writing the song "Purple Gas" and collaborating with Zach Bryan to record it in 2024.^[1] She is currently signed to La Honda Records.^[2]

Hofmann grew up in Bow Island in the Alberta Badlands. Her parents have worked as crop dusters, while she descends from a family of farmers.^[3] Hofmann cites fellow Canadians Corb Lund and Colter Wall as artists she listened to in her youth.^[4] She took piano lessons at a young age, and also wrote poems as a kid.^[3] At age 12, she began songwriting and later learned the guitar as a teenager.^[5][3] In her adolescent years, Hofmann initially worked on a farm rouging canola, then worked at a local cow-calf operation where she tagged cows, delivered vaccines, and assisted in breeding operations.^[3]

After graduating high school, Hofmann worked numerous jobs, including as a receptionist and cashier, and as a server at a restaurant named "Bobby's Grill", which served as the inspiration for her song "Bob's".^[6][3] She had planned to attempt to go into music, but amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, there were few available opportunities for new performers.^[7] She then decided to move to western Manitoba to work on a ranch named Poplarview Stock Farm in the spring of 2021.^[3]

In mid-2023, Hofmann began performing at small venues near her hometown in southern Alberta.^[7] In October 2023, she posted a video of her performing her original song "Purple Gas" on TikTok, which caught the attention of American singer-songwriter Zach Bryan.^[7] Bryan invited Hofmann down to Oklahoma to film a live performance of "Purple Gas" as part of his video series "The Belting Bronco".^[8] In 2024, Bryan asked Hofmann to collaborate with him and record "Purple Gas" as a duet, which he included on his 2024 album The Great American Bar Scene.^[8][1] The song would go on to chart on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, the Canadian Hot 100, and the New Zealand Hot Singles Chart.^[9][10][11] She joined Charley Crockett as on opening date on select dates of his "$10 Cowboy Tour" in early 2024.^[12]

Later that year, Hofmann made her debut performance at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.^[13] On October 18, 2024, she released her debut EP Purple Gas on La Honda Records.^[14][15] In February 2025, Hofmann released a cover of Luke Bell's song "The Bullfighter".^[16] Hofmann won Female Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, and Video of the Year at the 2025 Country Music Alberta Awards.^[17] She is one of three finalists in the 2025 SiriusXM Top of the Country competition.^[18]

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