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Birth name | Nicole Ann Bell |
Born | Scarborough, Ontario, Canada | September 8, 1991
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Years active | 2011–present |
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Website | nicoledollanganger |
Nicole Ann Bell (born September 8, 1991), known professionally as Nicole Dollanganger, is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter.[1][2][3] Dollanganger's music is characterized by a feminine, high-pitched vocal style, minimalist instrumentation, and lyrical themes frequently pertaining to true crime, violence, sexuality, and romance.[1][2][3][4] Her music has been described as "lo-fi",[5] "atmospheric",[2] and "bedroom folk",[5] and is associated with the folk, folk pop, bedroom pop, slowcore and dream pop genres.[6][7][8][9]
In 2015, Rolling Stone named Dollanganger in an article titled "10 New Artists You Need to Know", stating that her "gothic folk songs" described as "macabre millennial nightmares, softened by dream-pop tranquilizers, reverberating from a casket-shaped music box", are "as beautiful as they are brutal."[6] Most of her releases were released as digital-only, and a majority of them were initially published by Dollanganger herself through the music website Bandcamp. Her stage name comes from the Dollanganger Series of novels by V. C. Andrews.[10]
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