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Dana Williams is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet from Los Angeles. She rose to prominence in 2014 after placing fourth on the American singing competition series, Rising Star. She is also well known for her numerous YouTube covers, for appearing in a 2014 Apple Christmas commercial entitled "The Song," and for her collaborations with rappers Freddie Gibbs, Boogie, and Rejjie Snow.

Her debut EP, The Lonely One, was released on March 24, 2014. Her follow-up, entitled Let's Fall was released on December 11, 2015. She is currently working on material for her full-length debut album, for which six singles have been released.

Dana Williams was born in Los Angeles to musician and songwriter David Williams (guitarist), famed for his work with Michael Jackson for over 30 years. Her older sisters Kenya Williams and Davida Williams are both actresses. As a child, Williams split her time between Los Angeles, the home of her father, and New York City, the home of her mother. As a child, she also lived for a short time in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts on Martha's Vineyard during which time she attended Tisbury School. During her childhood, she often accompanied her father to the recording studio and eventually met Michael Jackson because of her father's position as the singer's guitarist. After the studio sessions, Williams would often go home and practice writing love songs due to her father's influence. For a middle school Black History Month project, Williams discovered and learned about legendary Jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald. This project opened Williams up to Jazz music, along with the influence of her maternal grandmother, who was a Jazz singer and often sang songs to Williams and her sister as infants. When she was in fourth grade, Williams was selected to sing "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" with Jay-Z for a Television special. As Williams got older and grew up in New York, she became exposed to the works of Billie Holiday and started to attend and perform at Jazz Clubs throughout the city, particularly Lenox Lounge, which was frequented by Holiday throughout her career. She began writing her own music when she was 14 or 15.