Stella Soleil
| Stella Soleil | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Stella G. Katsoudas |
| Also known as | Sister Soleil |
| Born | November 3, 1971 |
| Origin | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Genres | Pop, rock, dance |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Years active | 1996-present |
| Labels | Universal |
| Associated acts | DubWitch, Dirty Little Rabbits, Geno Lenardo, Whorse, NIN, Trent Reznor, Juniper |
| Website | dubwitch |
Stella Katsoudas (born November 3, 1971) is a Greek-American pop and rock singer better known for stage names Stella Soleil and Sister Soleil as well as having been frontwoman for Dirty Little Rabbits. Katsoudas most recently released the 2015 album Under A DubWitch Moon under the moniker DubWitch.
Stella started in Chicago, Illinois doing back up vocals for a number of local bands including Chemlab's album East Side Militia singing on "Electric Molecular", the Ministry song "The Fall", from the album Filth Pig and 16 Volt on LetdownCrush, singing on "Swarm". In 1996 Stella self-released "Drown Me in You" via her own label "Katharsis Records".
Additional collaborations included Die Warzau as part of a side project with Van Christie which led to a collaborative effort on the album Soularium.
When working on her record at Real World Studios Stella wrote two tracks with Joseph Arthur "Butterfly" and "Hanging Around" during which time she derived much inspiration from him.
Peter Gabriel wanted to use a couple of producers she was working with to program a couple of tracks for him. He also worked on a song on the Soularium album called "Blind" that she had written in Chicago with Preston Klik and Thomas Cray while in the short-live trio, Juniper. There it was, like a mantra, he sang over and over "shine like the sun, shine like the sun.”
Michael Rand former Kid Rock and Blue October manager secured the Sister Soleil recording contract with Doug Morris then CEO of Universal Music Group. When Stella got her record deal with Universal, Stella flew Corey Taylor into Real World Studios to record a song called "Liar". When Sister Soleil toured for the Soularium album in the midwest Corey would always come to do the show live with her, ending in a fist fight on the floor, their idea of an antithesis to "Baby It's Cold Outside".
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