Natalie Prass

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Natalie Prass (2015)

Natalie Prass (born March 15, 1986 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American singer-songwriter .

Career

Prass was born in Cleveland and grew up in the Tidewater region of Virginia . She was a member of several bands in her youth and attended Berklee College of Music in Boston after high school . She then moved to Nashville , where she took a songwriting course at Middle Tennessee State University . After working with various other musicians, including the keyboard player for Jenny Lewis , she embarked on a solo career as a singer-songwriter.

In 2015 Natalie Prass' came out after her self-named debut album, produced by her childhood friend Matthew E. White , among others , at Spacebomb Studios in Richmond . Critics recognized strong borrowings from earlier decades in the music, so it was compared to the orchestrated pop of the seventies and sixties, with Dusty Springfield and Harry Nilsson , although the music, according to Guardian reviewers, appears "not retro, but timeless". The British Independent quotes Dionne Warwick, Joni Mitchell and Nina Simone as her heroines, calling her a soul singer.

The album was largely positively received by the critics and achieved a rating of 86/100 on Metacritic and was able to place itself in the US rock charts.

In Germany her song It Is You became known through its use in television advertising.

The musician lived in Nashville for nine years from 2005 , then moved to Richmond, Virginia, disappointed.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Spiegel: Listened to: The most important music of the week
  2. ^ Pitchfork: Natalie Prass
  3. ↑ Official website: Biography ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / natalieprassmusic.com
  4. ^ Allmusic: Natalie Prass
  5. ↑ a b Metacritic: Natalie Prass
  6. ↑ Ben Walsh: Natalie Prass: 'If you're choosing to do music with your life you're a little bit crazy' , portrait of N. Prass at independent.co.uk from August 21, 2015, accessed February 11, 2017
  7. ↑ The Song from FeWo direkt Werbung , Rob Vegas, April 6, 2015
  8. ↑ Rachel Syme: Natalie Prass Escapes Nashville , portrait of the musician in the New Yorker, January 31, 2015, accessed February 11, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Prass, Natalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio , USA