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About Me

Portland based acousto-electric guitar/bass/ukulele sister duo specializing in original compositions. Beliss is the hybrid of Belinda and Melissa Underwood, both classically and jazz trained musicians. They have branched out from these styles, calling on an enormous wealth of training and inspiration from multiple genres for their own sound of pop, electronic, folk and jazz arrangements. Equally comfortable in the studio or at live venues, the sisters of Beliss help produce and engineer their own albums as well as entertain a wide variety of audiences................................................... ...........................................NEW VIDEOS: Live at the Green Mill in Chicago 9/07 with benny green on piano and greg rockingham on drums:Live at People's Co-op, Portland 2007 "Redwood Life"Mason Jennings tune, "If you ain't got love""Elvira" reposted..

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Member Since: 10/27/2005
Band Website: belissmusic.com
Band Members: Belinda Underwood: upright and electric bass, ukulele, vocals; Melissa Underwood: acoustic and electric guitar, ukulele, vocals, harp, saxophone; Additional musicians include Martin Zarzar (Pink Martini): drums and percussion, Dan Gaynor: organ, keyboard and accordian, Nick Crosa (Pink Martini): violin
Influences: Bobbie Gentry, Bjork, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton, The Coup, Marvin Gaye, Rilo Kiley, Love, Carol Kaye, Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield, Outkast, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, The Electric Prunes, Calexico, Joanna Newsom, Beach Boys, The Kinks, David Axelrod, The Poppy Family, Benny Green, Stevie Wonder, Billie Holiday, Mos Def, Bob Dylan, Cat Power, Nancy Wilson, Vaughan Williams, Jill Scott, Beck, The Beatles (as a group and as John, Paul, George and Ringo), Bobby Brown (the 60's Hawaiian dude), Miles Davis, Milton Nascimento, Roy Ayers, Nancy King, The Flaming Lips, Mason Jennings, The Common People, Billy Strayhorn, Dhani Harrison, Curtis Mayfield, Nick Drake, Ennio Morricone, John Cage, Mary Timony, David Bowie, and many, many others.... Non-musicians, per say, include Don Juan de Marcos, Dave Chappelle, Edward Abbey, Great God Pan, Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, Martin Luther King, and other enlightened and forward thinking beings...
Sounds Like: None other than ourselves
Record Label: Cosmik Muse Rekords
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

the next few months

well, we will be playing a few more times until next spring, but only because we are going to be travelling a bunch!!! check us out at proper eats in portland nov. 3rd 7pm and maybe another gig as of ...
Posted by Beliss on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:03:00 PST

new cd review

check out this really nice review on fencepost we just got for the Beliss album:http://www.fensepost.com/home/index.php?option=com_con tent&task=view&id=522&Itemid=152here tis....Beliss' self-titled al...
Posted by Beliss on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:24:00 PST

*yawn* good morning..travellogue

belinda and i just got back from a totally rad trip to chicago and minneapolis where she played with hot jazz musicians. i got to play with her on one song in each show- our as yet unrecorded 'polar b...
Posted by Beliss on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:22:00 PST

da bite of oregon

hey everyone! we are playing the coveted BITE OF OREGON this year! coming up real fast. now we know we are having our release party just the week before, but some of you have already mentioned that yo...
Posted by Beliss on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:07:00 PST

RELEASE PARTY w/PINK MARTINI MEMBERS

hello all, just wanna get all the avenues covered on myspace for our release party...all y'all are welcome and it is gonna be at the tea zone/camelia lounge at 510 nw 11th ave in portland, oregon. we ...
Posted by Beliss on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:02:00 PST

Our Music Performance Schedule....

soooo, in case you are wondering, YES we are trying to get our cd release party happenin' but, alas, things are much much too busy (like our song, the busy song) and so scheduling in a date has been a...
Posted by Beliss on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:12:00 PST

new songs

We've just uploaded new tracks from our album. The previous ones also appear on the album, but they were not the final mix or mastered versions. These new tracks are as they appear on the album (even ...
Posted by Beliss on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:10:00 PST

CD IS DONE!!

We just received our new cd from the manufacturer. That means the hard copies are in our hands! If you want one, come to our upcoming shows (including the yet to be announced release party), or wait u...
Posted by Beliss on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 06:40:00 PST

hell yeah

can you believe that rumsfeld stepped down today? fuck yeah. gonna go write a song about it. perhaps the tides are turning with the elections, however, it is still just the lesser of two evils. we sti...
Posted by Beliss on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:12:00 PST

closer and closer we get..

Good news everyone! the artwork and master was sent today to the printers and we are VERY excited to announce it's upcoming arrival. We'll let you know for sure when the partay is and, believe you me,...
Posted by Beliss on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:29:00 PST