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Sampling The Ravenous New Americana Album Reviews

By Brian Nelson


Good music has a magical way of transforming a dull moment into something brighter. Writing a captivating song takes a lot of effort and time. Artists like Halsey are naturally gifted with this skill. The lyrics come almost effortlessly to such folks. The composer is supposed to play with the words in an artistic manner to bring out a resounding narrative. The best-selling New Americana album reviews suggest that their latest works are headed for great success.

Halsey is just a stage name. Her full name is Ashley Nicolette Frangipane. She was born in nineteen ninety-four. The early twenties singer and songwriters fell in love with music at a very tender age. So far, she has worked with the recording company known as Astralwerks to release her first album dubbed Badlands. An instant success by all means.

The maestro hails from a remote town in New Jersey. The city of Clark is where she got most of her inspiration. Her parents are from different parts of the world. The mom happens to be the daughter of immigrants who had Italian and Hungarian ancestry. The father is an African-American. Her broad scope of culture plays a huge role in the type of music she produces.

The girl can play a myriad of musical instruments. The parents gave her an early boost when they took her to music schools. There, she got introduced to playing the musical instruments like the Viola, the acoustic guitar, and even the cello. Her life got faced with adversity by the time she hit her sixteenth birthday. The lady suffered from bipolar disorder. Her music helped to pay her rent in Brooklyn.

People began noticing her talent on the different cover songs she did on Youtube. One of her most famous cover songs was the one she did on the favorite song by Taylor Swift. Her rendition of the song I Knew You Were Trouble attracted quite a significant traffic on Youtube. Soon after that, buoyed by the success of this cover track, she went ahead to produce her first song dubbed Ghost. She published the track on Sound Cloud.

Currently, the resume of Ashley is one of the most impressive for an upcoming artist. To-date, she has done work with recording artists and bands which are award-winning and amazing. The groups she has worked with include Imagine Dragons, Raising Sons and even with The Kooks. She is often the curtain-raiser on various auspicious musical festivals across the country. Some time back, Hasley got an invitation to perform at the famed South by Southwest music festival.

Late last year she debuted her album, Badlands. The album got a warm reception in the music scene. According to her, the album can best be described as an angry female record. In efforts to promote her album, the songwriter has gone on interviews on many shows. The best example of which has to be on the Stephen Colbert Late Show and the Last Call with Carson Daly.

The artist often says that she is privileged to have grown up in a family who loved music. Her parents loved different genres. The father was a die-hard hip hop fan listening to songs from the Rock and Rock Hall of Famer, Tupac Shakur while the mom was a soft rock kind of person. Kanye West is one of her idols.




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