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Artist
LeEllen Dylaan
1+ albums
indiepopUSAalternativeSinger/Songwriter
about
LeEllen Dylaan was due on March 6th, but was born a week late, on March 13th. And she's been defying both time and gravity ever since. A singer, songwriter, eleven-string, fretless guitar player and extemporaneous percussion player, she had her first instruction in music before she was two. Living in a row house on Upnor Road, in Baltimore, LeEllen’s nursery shared a wall with the practice room of a drummer, whose dedication and perseverance had him drumming into the wee hours of the morning – so that, at a tender age, LeEllen was initiated into the golden interstices of rhythm. Moving to the suburbs, LeEllen’s early studies in rhythm were soon put into practice with classical ballet lessons beginning at the age of five. And she was still in braids when she learned to play Beethoven’s Fur Elise and Stairway to Heaven on the piano. Then there was her first musical, Oliver, in fifth grade; classical pieces like Handel's Messiah in eighth grade chorus; and by eleventh grade LeEllen was singing rock-n-roll for Student Government performances and choreographing dance numbers to James Bond scores; in twelfth grade she got the role of Cha Cha in Grease without even practicing for the audition; while a high school band, whose members included three rivaling all boys prep schools, forwent the traditional boy band set-up and thought it in their best interest to have her as their lead singer. After all, what sixteen year old could belt Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me with Your Best Shot,” and
