Natashia Kelly
Biographie Natashia Kelly
Natashia Kelly
born in Belgium but with Irish roots, is a singer and composer. The Sean-Nòs singing (Irish a capella) inspires the way she approaches a song. Her jazz-background gives her the freedom to be adventurous, to improvise over pieces, to explore the nuances in her voice and to blend with each instrument. The way she composes and writes lyrics is with great care for story's content. Harmony and lyrics evoke a visual world of our contemporary times.
Natashia Kelly studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with teacher David Linx and studied under Diederik Wissels, Christophe Wallemme, Nathalie Loriers, John Rocco and Kris Defoort. In 2010 she was selected for an Erasmus exchange programme with the Conservatory of Paris CNSMDP (Conservatoire National Supérieur Music et de Danse Paris), where she had Masterclasses and played with Anders Jormin, Fred Hersch, Billy Hart, Bruno Chevillon, Larry Grenadier and many others. At CNSMDP she also took classic singing lessons with Alain Buet.
“With her unique voice, Natashia Kelly sings in a totally personal and inhabited register, revealing various and intertwined sound palettes ,which would probably be wrong to reduce to the four letters of the word jazz.” (Yan Viseur, live concert L'Aéronef, France)
