The Narrative
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The Narrative (Jesse Gabriel and Suzie Zeldin) at VINYL on April 26, 2011.
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| Origin | Long Island, New York, United States |
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| Years active | 2007–present |
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| Website | www |
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The Narrative is an American independent indie rock band from Long Island, New York, formed in 2007. They are currently based at Nashville, TN. Since 2011, the band has consisted of Suzie Zeldin (vocals, keyboards) and Jesse Gabriel (vocals, guitar). Previously, the group has featured the drummer Charlie Seich. The group started its musical career with their first debut EP Just Say Yes released in 2008, where "Eyes Closed" stands out as the most popular song with more than 3.5 million views on YouTube. Its debut album The Narrative was released in 2010. As well the group release two supporting tour-EP, Nothing Without You in 2010 and Kickstarter in 2011. A follow-up EP b-side compilation album, B-Sides and Seasides was released online in 2012. The Narrative released its seconds studio album Golden Silence on December 2, 2016.
In 2006, after graduating, Jesse Gabriel decided to find some musicians to begin a musical project. He wrote then, an open advertisement and submit it to Craigslist. After some answers, he looked upon the Suzie Zeldin's response, who was also looking for musicians, and decided to meet each other. They soon found out that they had studied in the same school on Bellmore, Long Island, but never met. The two decided them to collaborated in music, starting the band under a different name "January Window", before changing it to The Narrative. Zeldin spoke to U-T San Diego, explaining the following about the change of band name, "We came up with the name while we were recording the 'Just Say Yes' EP. At one point, we had put together a list of random band names, mostly from literary terms, poems, or song lyrics we liked and sent them around to our friends. For a short time, we settled on January Window which is from a Sylvia Plath poem. We ended up not liking it after a while and revisited the list and found The Narrative Paradigm which seemed a little wordy and pretentious so we shortened it to The Narrative. We decided it was a good name and have been happy with it."
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