Susan Chamberlain

What do you get when an ex-ballerina turned choreographer turned actor picks up a guitar? Provocative songs that move you down to the muscle and the bone. Pure, haunting, simple, bare boned soul.
Susan Chamberlain is a newcomer to the Indie music scene, but an old soul in waiting. Her many incarnations as an artist fuel an original approach to her songs.
" Just One Soul that's already Old, Just One Heart That was Born True."
-s.c. 2004.
Originally from Boston, she began her artistic journey as a classical ballet dancer from the ages of 4 to 17. With a love for "the notes that move", she performed with regional companies and became a student of pre-professional programs with the members of The New York City Ballet, The Paris Opera Ballet, and Boston Conservatory, among others. After years of making up songs as a child and a love for poetic grace, Susan happened to find an old rustic abandoned guitar in the attic of her sister's apartment at age 18. Songs began to come easily. With a longing to expand her artistic vision, Susan attended Emerson College in Boston and graduated with studies completed in choreography, music, acting, film, and writing in 2001. She choreographed three original experimental dance shows while in the undergraduate theatre program at Emerson College, the last of which was entitled "Take Me To The Water" . With an increasing call to utilize an ear for music composition Susan choreographed all of the movement in " Take Me To The Water" as the music was being written, and utilized her love for live music...by performing with her dancers each night to live udu drum and guitar. In her last piece of choreography, she danced, choreographed, composed, and recorded, the music for the show. With an ever reaching call to write and perform music, after doing observational work at Shakespeare's Globe in London, 2003, she set her sights on a long awaited move to New York City.
The great Isadora Duncan once said "All my life I have only 'listened to music' I have never been a dancer. "
This holds true for Susan who sees art itself as a space waiting to be executed, cultivated, and sung.
" There's a room, up a flight of stairs where we go to be unlaced from the holding back and fear There's a room, an empty space where we go to catch the songs through a net called grace."
-Suzie Q 2006
In the summer of 2006, Susan joined the Digital Cafe Tour. Produced by writer, musician, visionary extraordinaire Tom Walker, and definitive Filmmaker Brian Jude, DCT promises to be a revolution in the way music is filmed, recorded, and marketed. Proud to be listed as one of DCT's artists, stay tuned for further footage of Susan's July 15th performance at Luna Stage.Currently she is pursuing work in the film and television industry and continuing to write songs. Her music has been described as everything from "ethereal" and "angelic" to "bluesy" and "bold". "The songs have a life of their own", she says, "They are energy moving, and it's my job to let them move through me."
She is currently working with various musicians, preparing to record an upcoming CD, and performing throughout the east coast.
*stay tuned for bare boned songs from the heart, from the soul, and from a girl that refuses to go quiet.