Friday, January 13, 2017

New Americana Album Reviews By Stephen Colbert Among Others

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.

Many of her fans are unaware that her name Halsey is a clever rearrangement of her original name Ashley. The performer was born and bred in a small town known as Clark in the New Jersey area. Her parents are of mixed origins. Her mother boasts of a mixture of Hungarian, Italian and Irish blood. The father, however, has an African-American background. Her diverse ethnicity has contributed immensely to her unique taste and style.

The artist known as Halsey got exposed to playing musical instruments at a very tender age. By the time she hit fourteen years, she was already conversant with playing instruments like the viola, cello, and the acoustic guitar. At sixteen, she got diagnosed with bipolar disorder. That diagnosis did very little to deter her from continuing her pursuit of greatness. She played music to raise the bills to pay her rent.

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.

Some years back, Halsey, went on tour with the Band known as The Kooks. She was their main opening act. The crowds instantly fell in love with her, and she got named as the most promising artist at the South by Southwest festival. In her lifetime, Halsey has worked with award-winning bands like Imagine Dragons/ and the Young Rising Sons.

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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