Vanessa Pellon has a gift. It lies deep in her bones and flows through her veins in high swell. She embraces this gift like a mother holding her newborn baby. With profound love and passion for songwriting, she hopes to have others take a part of her gift by invoking emotions in them.
“To me songwriting is about sharing a view point and creating a frame with music around that perspective. If a person can relate with a song, I have made a connection. That is what makes me feel alive,” ...
Vanessa Pellon has a gift. It lies deep in her bones and flows through her veins in high swell. She embraces this gift like a mother holding her newborn baby. With profound love and passion for songwriting, she hopes to have others take a part of her gift by invoking emotions in them.
“To me songwriting is about sharing a view point and creating a frame with music around that perspective. If a person can relate with a song, I have made a connection. That is what makes me feel alive,” she says intently.
So, when she picked up the guitar at the age of 17, she felt compelled to write songs that reflected her view on the world. She began performing at the local coffee shops in the Bay Area of Northern California. Originally, her life goal was to become a veterinarian but she soon found herself writing lyrics instead of centrifuging compatible substances in chemistry class.
“I walked out of my college chemistry class because all I could think about was getting home to my guitar. The next day I dropped my science classes and enrolled in music courses,” she says while snickering to herself.
By the time she graduated with her Liberal Arts degree in Music Theory she could transpose music to any instrument. It was quite the turnaround yet the beginning of her musical journey.
Pellon steadily performed in coffee houses from San Francisco to Sacramento. The word began to trickle out about a “girl and her guitar” and the passion behind the voice. Soon people started showing up every week to hear her play. Local coffee shop owners even went so far as to build stages for Pellon and she frequently invited local musicians to join her. She earned a weekly gig at a local venue and played 3 hour shows.
After being approached by managers Pellon realized she needed to gain more knowledge about the entertainment industry. Her insatiable appetite for learning pushed her closer to her dream of being a professional musician and in early 2005 Pellon moved to Orlando to attend Full Sail University.
“I wanted to learn the business side of music so that I’d be smart when it came to making decisions for my own career, all while writing and recording better songs ,” says Pellon.
From Orlando she moved to L.A. and soon after became the bass player for the industrial rock band The Knife Confession which quickly became a top drawing band in L.A.’s rock scene in 2007-2008. The band opened for numerous national touring bands and celebrated their CD release party before a sold-out audience at the infamous Viper Room.
After the dissolve of the band in early 2009, Pellon has returned to her songwriting with an undeniable fiery-passion.
“If I’ve learned anything these last few years it is don’t hold back. People relate to raw, uncensored moments of honesty. I want to provide my audiences with those moments while giving them a soft place to land.”
Pellon’s new album “Porcelain Diary” was inspired by her method of recording -live in her bathtub.
Reflectively she says, “The challenge was to not hit the headstock of my guitar on the shower wall. I was completely engrossed in the moment of my performance and then ‘wham!’ Luckily, I didn’t injure my guitar but I did have to scrap some good takes.”
Nonetheless, Pellon recorded an album that captured raw and candid moments that often aren’t heard these days because of the increase in overproduced albums.
She has been recently selected as a nominee for the 2009 Independent Singer Songwriter of the Year Award. Her music is currently being played on WomansRadio Live365, Indie 104 iRADIO LA "Internet Radio Station Of The Year" by New Music Weekly Magazine and Underworldmixradio.com.
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