Eli

To: The Indie Street Cred Powers That Be From: Eli, musician, 24, female, blue eyes, looking. My label said I need to have a bio if I want [redacted] to put me on Fresh Finds or [redacted] to give me a 7.8 on Pitchfork. To which you’re probably thinking, “wow. The label couldn’t even afford a PR person to write this bio?” and the answer is yes. Tough times at Zelig (but you didn’t hear that from me). Luckily, my debut album Stage Girl came out on Halloween before they closed the doors for good ⋆｡°✩ Stage Girl is what happens when you give a girl from the suburbs of Massachusetts too much Dunkin: a conceptual pop epic about reclaiming the fedora and childhood trauma through a fictional reality singing competition. My most formative moments with music were sitting on a beige Bernie and Phils carpet and voting for my favorite girls on singing competitions (#JusticeForHaileyReinhart). Amanda Overmyer was my Janis Joplin, Jessica Sanchez was my Whitney Houston. Seeing some random girl belt her heart out every Tuesday to Billy Crystal lit a fire in me so strong I started singing on the internet (so not that strong). I got a record deal from it, but they tried to make me be Justin Bieber, so I stopped This time though, I started posting everything; every demo, most thoughts, some selfies... I was throwing spaghetti at the wall. Do you like spaghetti?