Nicole Dollanganger
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September 8, 1991 Scarborough, Ontario, Canada |
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| Years active | 2011–present |
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Nicole Bell (born September 8, 1991), more commonly known by her stage name Nicole Dollanganger, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and artist who currently resides in Whitchurch–Stouffville, Canada. She began posting original songs on Tumblr in mid 2011, and wrote and recorded her first four records in her bedroom while sick on bed rest. Nicole is known for her high pitched singing voice and childlike appearance. She is also known for her lyrics, which include themes of gore, rape, sex and BDSM, depression, self harm, among other topics.
In 2015, she became featured on Grimes' Eerie Organization, a collaborative created solely for the purpose of releasing Dollanganger's album, Natural Born Losers. She later went on to assist Grimes on the Rhinestone Cowgirls Tour in the fall. Nicole also garnered the support of underground rapper XXXTENTACION who sampled her song "Poacher's Pride" and collaborated with her on a song for his upcoming LP.
Nicole's stage name "Nicole Dollanganger" is a reference to the 1979 "Dollanganger Children" series by V. C Andrews.
Early in 2012, Dollanganger was hospitalized for Anorexia nervosa and Anorexia athletica, and was put on bed rest where she began writing and posting songs on her blog more actively. She had been posting cover songs to Tumblr and Myspace for about a year when she posted her first song "Coma Baby" in 2011. She says of that experience, "It was the first song I’d ever written and recorded by myself, so I was extremely nervous about the whole thing. I had decided to post it and delete it a few minutes later, only in those few minutes I received an overwhelming amount of encouragement and support". It was later included on her first album Curdled Milk (2012).
Over the next two years, she went on to release Flowers of Flesh and Blood (2012), Ode to Dawn Wiener: Embarrassing Love Songs (2013), and Observatory Mansions (2014). In 2013 and 2014, she sold each record in limited runs of handmade CD-Rs and cassettes.
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