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Kellie Marie

About Me

To listen and watch Kellie Marie perform is to experience something definitively new and refreshing on the contemporary Irish music scene. That may seem like a bold statement to utter in this day and age so why believe it? Well you can start from the fact that whilst being a singer/songwriter Kellie Marie can politely defy the genres restrictive typecasting. For despite being a gifted singer, musician and lyricist she achieves something altogether unique and special by mixing her theatrical background with an ever-eclectic range of musical influences and performance styles. Kellie’s world is a brilliantly bizarre musical crossroads where Janis Joplin, P.J. Harvey, blues and Gospel music can come together easily with the colour and humour of Alice in Wonderland and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. For any serious artist, presentation is paramount and this ethos has lead Kellie into developing a variety of differen't stage personas which are invented or dropped like a whim. Sometimes her visual presence on stage can be that of a pared back struggling, gigging girl singing her heart out, other times she can look like a dark seductive vamp from a burlesque dream-world, dressed on stage in a black bowler hat, heavy make-up, and red high heels. Whether she is playing solo on guitar or with a backing band that has comprised in the past of Bongos, Keyboards, Saxophones or Cellos, her sound is always immediate, accessible, heart-felt, passionate, anthemic, comic, evocative, sensuous, bold, captivating, engaging and always, always entertaining. There are no limits to Kellie Marie’s vision or sound and everything is permitted so long as it adds to the pleasure of her creativity and of the audience’s experience of something new. (Andrew McEneff)

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Member Since: 04/11/2006
Band Members: Kellie Marie: Vocals/Acoustic/Electric Guitar, Inga Eiks: Bass Guitar/Vocals. Richard Smyth: Lead Guitar/Vocals, Donal Dennehy, Drums/Vocals.
Influences: Janis Joplin, PJ Harvey, Dusty Springfield, Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club, Martha Wainwright, Nina Simone, Ghandi, The Dublin Gospel Choir, The London Community Gospel Choir, Eva Cassidy, Karen Carpenter, Carole King, Bob Dylan, Tina Turner, Ella Fitzgerald, Joanna Newsom, Christina Aguleira, Adela Mealy, All the music played by John Kelly on the JK Ensemble, (lyric Fm @3pm daily and repeated, for our pleasure at 1 am. LISTEN!) And Nelson Mandella for hitting the nail on the head when he said "Our deepest Fear is not that we are inadequate, Our deepest fear is that we are Powerful Beyond Measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?.......Actually who are you NOT to be? Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing Enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont feel insecure around you". (Inagural Speech. 1994)
Sounds Like: Music.
Record Label: Independant

My Blog

Our Deepest Fear

To whom it does or does not concern, I am a musician (I think) and I have a complaint to make about my own brain. I have no my reciept so, unfortunately, I cant return said brain, however, I do hope ...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:29:00 GMT