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rose polenzani
"Rose exists on a level all her own... no one can touch her... botanical love songs... dark histories... as holy as a mystic, as profane as your perverted fantasies."
Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls
"Intense, passionate, and haunted!"
Performing Songwriter
"Her songwriting is bold and uncompromising, with beautifully cast features and a wisdom that defies her young age. Her lyrics are a brilliant blur of sexuality and social commentary, intoned with the most esoteric of voices."
Southeast Performer
Bio
Balanced on the brink of 60's folk literacy and modern adult alternative, Rose has been able to straddle the largely streamlined music scene, opening for acts such as David Gray, Kristin Hersh, and Vic Chestnutt - as natural in a rock club as a coffeehouse.
The youngest of four children, Rose Polenzani was born into a midwestern family that valued music above all things. The prize of the household was an ornate baby grand piano with which Mrs. Polenzani would accompany her children on their many recital pieces and talent show selections. It is no surprise that all four children have music as a major part of their lives: Matthew Polenzani is a tenor at the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Opera; Nancy sings with a choir in Illinois; Chuck writes and records in Chicago; and then there's Rose. After two years of writing, recording demos on her hand-me-down 4-track, and playing music in the Chicago open-mic scene, Rose went on her first tour of the Northeast in November of 1997. Within 7 months, she was invited to play the Newport Folk Festival, won a slot in the 1998 summer Lilith Fair tour, and opened for the likes of Joan Baez and Shawn Colvin. That spring, her demo tape fell into the hands of Indigo Girls' Amy Ray, who has since become Rose's greatest supporter.
After years of home recordings, 4-tracks, 8-tracks, and living room sessions, Rose set out to make her first full-length studio recording with a band. She went into Artist Workshop studio in Boston, MA with her accompanist of 2 years, David Goodrich. Goodrich brought in his longtime colllaborators Mike Piehl (drums) and Lour Ulrich (bass). In one rehearsal, the songs in Rose's head began to take on new lives. The purposefully self-titled album was released in July of 2001 on Amy Ray's Atlanta-based indie label, Daemon Records.
Polenzani teamed up with other female favorites Erin McKeown, Jess Klein, and Beth Amsel to form Voices on the Verge - a quartet that toured to national acclaim in the summer of 2001 in support of a collaborative album, also released in 2001 on Rykodisc. |
Web Site
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Rose Polenzani
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Business & Booking
Publicity
Stacey Singer
Daemon Records
stacey @ daemonrecords.com
www.daemonrecords.com
Label
Daemon Records
www.daemonrecords.com
Discography
Self-Titled (Daemon 2001)
Anybody (Daemon 1999)
Dragersville (1998)
Vast Chest (1995) |
