Julia Kent (musician)
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Julia Kent is a Canadian musician and best known as a founding member of the Rasputina cello group and as the cellist of Antony and the Johnsons . Kent was born in Vancouver , British Columbia and studied cello at Indiana University , Bloomington . She left Rasputina in 1999 and has since accompanied many well-known artists on the cello, although the focus of the collaborations is less on the classical area than on the singer-songwriter and various varieties of rock . In 2007 her first solo album "Delay" was released on Important Records (it was released for the European market on the Swiss label Shayo ). Kent now lives in New York.
Some of the artists Julia Kent has worked with so far
- Angela McCluskey
- The Angels of Light
- Antony and the Johnsons
- Au Revoir Simone
- Backworld
- Barbara Morgenstern
- Bela
- Black Tape For A Blue Girl
- Blind Cave Salamander
- Burnt Sugar
- Current 93
- Devendra Banhart
- Jarboe
- Larsen
- Library tapes
- Norah Jones
- Plumbline
- Rasputina
- Rufus Wainwright
- Ryan Adams
- Teddy Thompson
- Ultra Vivid Scene
Web links
Commons : Julia Kent - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
- Official website
- Julia Kent on Myspace
- Julia Kent on Discogs
- Review on Der Standard (German)
- Review on Nonpop (German)
- Interview on The Vancouver Sun
- Interview on Alternativmusik.de (German)
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| SURNAME | Kent, Julia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vancouver , British Columbia |