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Artist
Gelsey Bell
12+ albums
Avant-Gardefemale vocalistscontemporary classicalexperimentalamerican
about
Hailing from northern California, Gelsey Bell is a Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, and scholar. Her most recent album is In Place of Arms (2010), the follow-up to Under A Piano (2005). She likes to write songs and sing. She also likes to think about stuff. She began performing as a singer-songwriter when she was eighteen and released her first studio album, Under A Piano, in 2005, after which Indie Sounds NY named her one of its Top Ten for the year. She performs throughout New York City at such venues as Rockwood Music Hall, Caffe Vivaldi, the Sidewalk Cafe, and Goodbye Blue Monday, and has also performed in Pennsylvania, California, Minnesota, and Michigan. She second studio album, In Place of Arms, will be released in mid-September 2010. She also made two experimental albums, February (2008) and Love is Just a Crack in the Place of You (2009) for the RPM Challenge. Her songwriting grew out of a history of writing poetry, and studying both voice and piano. She began receiving awards for her poetry as early as the second grade and most recently had a poem published by the Tasmanian literary journal, Famous Reporter, in 2009. She studied piano for ten years before transferring her attentions to studying voice. She has studied opera and classical singing with Lise Carlson, jazz and musical theatre with Fran Carbonaro, and has briefly studied jazz with Rhiannon, and extended technique with Joan La Barbara. She performs regularly as an experimental vocalist, culling from
