Chelsea Wolfe
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Chelsea Wolfe, May 2015
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Chelsea Joy Wolfe |
| Born |
November 14, 1983 Roseville, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, record producer, musician |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Labels | Pendu Sound Recordings, Sargent House, Southern |
| Associated acts | King Dude, Russian Circles |
| Website | chelseawolfe |
| Notable instruments | |
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Taylor Guitars 716ce Fender Jaguar Gibson 335 |
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Chelsea Joy Wolfe (born November 14, 1983) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She has earned underground critical acclaim for her releases, The Grime and the Glow (2010) and Apokalypsis (2011), which blended elements of gothic rock and folk music, as well as her following albums, Pain Is Beauty (2013) and Abyss (2015), in which Wolfe incorporated elements of neofolk,electronic and metal. Her music has been featured in promotional material for the television series Game of Thrones and Fear the Walking Dead as well as in How to Get Away with Murder.
Chelsea Wolfe was born in Roseville, California, and grew up in Sacramento. She is of Norwegian and German descent. Her father was in a country band and had a home studio, where by the age of 9, she had written and recorded songs which she later described as "basically Casio-based gothy R&B songs".
In 2006, Wolfe composed an album, titled Mistake in Parting, which was never officially released. Of the album, Wolfe said: "I was 21 years old and wrote a shitty singer-songwriter breakup album. I didn’t even really want to be a musician back then, but a lot of my friends were like 'let’s do this, I’ve got some producer friends' and they helped me make this over-produced, terrible record... I sort of took a break from music for a while since I wasn’t happy with what I was making".
Wolfe's first widely released album, The Grime and the Glow (2010), was issued on New York-based independent label Pendu Sound Recordings, preceded that same year by the limited-edition albums Soundtrack VHS/Gold and Soundtrack VHS II. Her next album, Apokalypsis (2011), stylized as Ἀποκάλυψις, gained her an underground following, as well as critical acclaim, receiving favorable reviews in Pitchfork and CMJ. Wolfe toured extensively in North America and Europe to support both albums, and suffered from extreme stage fright; when she initially began performing live, Wolfe would wear a black veil over her face. "Performing was something that I had to learn," she said. "I could barely handle being onstage for the first few years, and it's the reason it took me so long to start my career as a musician".
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