Rosie Staf profile picture

Rosie Staf

About Me

Rosie Staf was born in August 1981 on the countryside of southern Sweden. While growing up she was always surrounded by music, all kinds of music; worldmusic, pop, classical music, folksongs, rock, soul… Her mother was very in to world music and actually gave birth to Rosie while listening to arabic folkmusic.
And Rosie started her musical education by playing the flute and singing in choirs. As a teenager she moved on to singing along with records whenever she was home alone, and a short period she even had a band playing popsongs and they managed to perform once(!) before they quit playing together..
Later on Rosie has studied jazzsinging and classical composition. She has written music for choir and different types of chambermusic. Her influences in classical composition are mostly French composers such as; Debussy, Eric Satie and very much also the now living Yann Tiersen.
As a part of realizing what was her style, she formed a band which allows her to continue playing with different genres and influences. Adding one instrument at the time, all of a sudden she realized she had created the little orchestra.
The little orchestra, to her, is the perfect formation. Big enough for variations but small enough to get that intimate and fragile sound she loves.
“Rosie Staf composes her music as easy and natural as snowfall on a cold evening. Her influences comes from calm and storytelling music that is often well orchestrated. She masters it all and her intimate voice is the crown on top of it all. It grabs you, don't let go and makes me never wanting to turn this off”/ Groove Magazine

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 09/08/2006
Band Website: www.rosiestaf.com
Band Members: the little orchestra- Rosie Staf; vocals/composing/arranging, Cecilia Linné; cello, Björn Dahlberg;accordion/clarinet, Henrik Hallberg; guitar, Stefan Stenberg; double bass, Olle Olsson; mallets, Johan Käck; drums
Influences: Chambermusic, balkan, french-, irish folk, pop, jazz, prog...mixie. Joni Mitchell, Yann Tiersen, Edith Piaf, Bob Dylan, Debussy, Erik Satie, E.S.T, Radiohead, Eva Cassidy, Paul Simon, Björk, Sinead O'connor, Sting, Bill Withers, Ella Fitzgerald, Nick Drake, Stevie, Feist, Laura Marling, PJ Harvey and everyone else that are good at what they do.,. And not necessarily in any order what so ever!
Sounds Like:

Record Label: Seed Songs/ Bonnier Amigo
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Album ready!

My very first album will be released in march, but you can already listen to a couple of songs from the album here on myspace!Hear it now.
Posted by on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:16:00 GMT

LIvepremiär!!

Missa inte vår LIVEPREMIÄR ikväll på Fasching klockan 20!The little orchestra står på scen tillsammans för allra första gången!Varmt välkomna!
Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:09:00 GMT

Oh!

And today I am posting mastered versions of a couple of songs.Hopefully you'll find that it sounds even better!
Posted by on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:58:00 GMT

rosiestaf.com

I've got a brand new website: www.rosiestaf.comCheck it out!Rosie
Posted by on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:55:00 GMT

the little orchestra live- premiär!

Be there to see the little orchestra perform live together for the first time!September 23, 20.00, at Fasching, Sthlm.See you there!Rosie
Posted by on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:14:00 GMT

New songs!

I'm giving you a sample of my latest recordings, I am working on an album which will be released this fall . They are so fresh they are'nt even mastered yet, but I am too eagern to wait.Hope you'll en...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:43:00 GMT