Tess Wiley

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Tess Wiley (born Elisabeth Wiley on November 9, 1974 in Houston ) is an American musician who lives in Giessen ( Germany ).

Life

Tess Wiley was born to Grammy winner, producer, musician and arranger Fletch Wiley and writer and poet Kathryn Wiley. She showed an early interest in music and composing and learned to play the piano at the age of five - the violin at the age of twelve - and to play the guitar at fourteen .

While attending the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts with a major in piano, she was the lead singer of the band Nothing In Return, which, however, in contrast to her classical music education, focused on heavy metal .

During her studies at the University of Texas at Austin , she turned to the more tranquil folk-rock style as a singer-songwriter , with individual songs also being influenced by Americana or pop . She came to Sweden on a scholarship and, inspired by her classical education, spent time in Austria.

She moved to Giessen through her marriage to the journalist as well as music and video director Christian Roth . The marriage has two sons. In addition to her work as a singer-songwriter and the corresponding concerts, she teaches music and English.

Career

After Tess Wiley was the front woman of the band Nothing In Return during her apprenticeship, she worked as guitarist with the band Sixpence None the Richer during their European and American tour between 1994 and 1995 and wrote the song Disconnect for their record This Beautiful Mess . Wiley left the band shortly after the American tour and began recording their songs under various names such as Splendora , Phantasmic and Tess Wiley and her Orchestra .

In addition to working with artists such as Paul Bryan (Aimee Mann), Jay Bellerose (Elvis Costello), Dirk Darmstaedter, Gregor McEwan and Stefan Stoppok and the band Velor 100, she has been releasing her CDs under the name Tess Wiley since 2001 .

Discography

  • 1995: Disconnect (song contribution as a member of Sixpence None the Richer )
  • 1999: The Energy You Keep (as part of her band Tess Wiley and her Orchestra )
  • 2001: Rainy Day Assembly (Effanel)
  • 2004: Not Quite Me (Wallpaper Records)
  • 2007: Superfast Rock 'n' Roll Played Slow (Wallpaper Records)
  • 2010: Tess Wiley - Live
  • 2012: Ticket to the Moon (collaboration on Leland P.'s album)
  • 2013: Little Secrets (Nordpol Records)
  • 2018: Femme Sole (What we call Records)

Web links

Commons : Tess Wiley  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "A band is teamwork". (PDF) Interview with Tess Wiley. In: Giessener Allgemeine. May 2013, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 16, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Biography. tesswiley.com, archived from the original on November 21, 2017 ; accessed on July 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Tess Wiley. laut.de, accessed on August 16, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Chris Flier: "Record companies always try to stick their noses into the recording process". Interview with Tess Wiley. sound7.de, June 7, 2004, archived from the original on August 19, 2014 ; accessed on July 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Tess Wiley - Little Secrets. Music review. cdstarts.de, November 15, 2013, accessed on August 16, 2014 .
  6. ↑ STOPPOK Trio featuring: Tess Wiley , accessed July 1, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Wiley, Tess
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roth, Elisabeth (married name); Wiley, Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston