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Artist
Rosaline Yuen
11+ albums
australia
about
Australian singer-songwriter Rosaline Yuen is often viewed as versatile performer and storyteller whose unique sound is difficult to pigeonhole. Whether Rosaline is tinkering on her keyboard or strumming the guitar on stage, she can take you on a journey from sweetly soulful songs of longing to quirky, rhythmic, and toe-tapping indie pop. Although Rosaline was trained in classical piano from the age of seven, the artist by her own admission did not particularly excel as a music student and recalls, “I had great difficulty expressing myself through elegant waltzes. I enjoyed playing pieces inspired by animals but every time I’d play a staccato note I’d bounce on the stool. My teacher told me to stop doing that.” It was not until her late teens when Rosaline began composing her own music that she discovered the freedoms of jazz and blues, and also the likes of Nina Simone, Tori Amos and Fiona Apple, which appealed to her intuitive style. Rosaline draws inspiration from a wide range of sources and says “I can spend whole afternoons alone in my room listening to Cat Power, Francoise Hardy, Neko Case and Martha Wainwright to name a few off a long list of artists who I admire and respect. But there’s no point in merely replicating sounds. I’ll be writing a song about a pear-shaped relationship. At the same time, the song will slowly take shape in my mind like a short film. Sometimes I think of Jean Luc Godard or Michel Gondry” In 2005, Rosaline made her debut on the Melbourne mu
