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About Me

Jonelle Vette is a singer, songwriter, photographer, linguist and recent transplant to Los Angeles from Nashville, TN. She holds two Bachelor's Degrees; a BS in Romance Languages from Georgetown University, Washington, DC and a BM in Songwriting from Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA where she graduated Magna Cum Laude.
While at Berklee, Ms. Vette studied under and provided editing work for Pat Pattison (author of Writing Better Lyrics, Songwriting: Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure, Rhyming Techniques and Strategies among a host of others). She also was a student of Jimmy Kachulis (author of Songwriter's Workshop: Melody, Songwriter's Workshop: Lyrics and Essential Songwriter: Craft Great Songs and Become a Better Songwriter). Ms. Vette was also recognized by Berklee several times as winner of the Songwriting Annual Scholarship in 2006, and writer/performer in 2005 and 2006 annual songwriter / performer showcase events.
Commercially, several of her songs have received awards on GarageBand.com, most notably Bound which has won track of the day, track of the week, best female vocals, best lyrics, best melody, rocking track, and topped the alternative pop song charts at 9 in January of 2008. Her debut release VETTE, an alternative pop album, can be found on iTunes, CD Baby and other popular online music retailers.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/14/2005
Band Website: vettemusic.com
Band Members: Vette is Jonelle Vette, and people involved with the official Vette EP are as follows:
Josh Klein - Guitar
David Manegold - Guitar
Alex Goumas & Stathis Lontos - Bass
Nic Rochefort - Drums
Other VETTE EP Credits: Eric Peterson - Producer / Engineer
Ben Grotto/Chris Hanson - Engineers
VETTE EP Songwriting credits:
Bound, Fly, Cool Girl - Jonelle Vette
French Kiss - Jonelle Vette/Mark Byers
Let's Forget - Jonelle Vette/Josh Klein/David Manegold
Stop For Me - Jonelle Vette / David Manegold/ Eric Peterson
I Will - Jonelle Vette / Mark Byers

Other Song Credits:
Monster (by Jonelle Vette/Mark Byers 2007) + Production by M. Byers & Vocals by J. Vette)
15 Minutes (by Jonelle Vette / Mark Byers 2007) + Production by M. Byers; Vocals by J. Vette)--------------------------------------- I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)
Influences: Portishead Goldfrapp Elysian Fields/Jennifer Charles Flaming Lips Blondie Erasure The Cars Gillian Welch David Lynch Billie Holiday Duke Ellington Tom Jobim Elis Regina Top 40 you
and more, much more, every day and all the time
Sounds Like: Portishead, Elysian Fields, Goldfrapp, early No Doubt
Record Label: Low Cut Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Thank you Oshkosh and SNC Fans! Stay tuned for new music!

I just want to give a BIG THANKS to the Oshkosh Northwestern for printing that piece about me in the February 2, 2008 edition of the paper. It was wonderful to be recognized by my hometown. I also wan...
Posted by VETTE on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:56:00 PST

Tales from Iceland

1 Fact or Fiction: The Driftwood HotelWhen i first heard of Seanie Blue's trips to Iceland and his love affair with The Hotel Djupavik, he described the place as having been built out of driftwood by ...
Posted by VETTE on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:12:00 PST

VETTEgirls Poems

Short VisitThe new snow was already meltingMore was expected that night, she saidAnd the rest of the leaves would be fallingAn ice-capped wind rolled over us Slapping our heads and cutting us shortSo ...
Posted by VETTE on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:53:00 PST

VETTE makes Home Town News

February 2, 2008, The Oshkosh Northwestern"'Success' has a new take for Oshkosh artist, singer"By Sarah Owenof The NorthwesternOne day, she quit her job.Jonelle Vette was earning a tidy living in arts...
Posted by VETTE on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:06:00 PST

See VETTE’s photos on Flickr.com and JPEG

VETTE loves to sing, write and take photographs too. If interested in seeing some of her photographs from the past year, go to her flickr.com site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vettegirlAlso, check ou...
Posted by VETTE on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:47:00 PST

Become a fan of VETTE on Facebook and iLike.com

Hey! if you like VETTE's music and you use Facebook, then go here (http://apps.facebook.com/ilike/artist/VETTE) to:1) VISIT VETTE's page on Facebook! 2) "ADD VETTE songs" to your Facebook Profile p...
Posted by VETTE on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:17:00 PST

VETTEs Songs Receive Music Awards

Hey i just learned that my song Bound is receiving lots of recognition on garageband.com. In case anyone is curious, here's the list:Track of the Day on 21May2007 in Alternative PopTrack of the Day on...
Posted by VETTE on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:43:00 PST