| Name |
Nell Bryden |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
American |
| Date of Birth |
8-March-1977 |
| Place of Birth |
Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Famous for |
Singing |
Nell Bryden is an American singer-songwriter. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, to parents themselves a singer (Jane Bryden) and artist (Lewis Bryden).
Bryden was living in Greenwich Village in New York during 9/11, an event that had a "profound" effect on her. The following year she recorded an album in Nashville and toured the US to support the album. Disillusioned with the music business, she travelled to New Orleans to write a new album, inspired by the jazz, roots and blues influences of the Crescent city. Bryden began recording with producer John Hill, but after the project ran out of money they returned to New York with a half-finished album. Two weeks later Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, displacing many of the musicians on the record and destroying much of the town.
Bryden began touring the UK and Ireland by self-booking her tours, playing up to 250 shows a year abroad, opening for artists such as the Counting Crows and KT Tunstall. After coming across a Milton Avery painting during an attic clear out (a gift from her father when she was still a baby), Bryden auctioned the piece and received a substantial amount for it. She then used the money to re-record her album, but this time around bringing on board Grammy-winning record producer David Kershenbaum.
The resulting album What Does it Take came out on 12 October 2009 on Cooking Vinyl in the UK and Ireland, and has enjoyed considerable critical success.
In 2008, following a chance meeting with a US Army colonel at SXSW in Austin, Texas, Bryden flew to Iraq to play for the Armed Forces. Her second tour there in 2009 was documented by Susan Cohn Rockefeller for her film Striking A Chord. The film is about the healing power of live music for combat-related stress, which can lead to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Striking A Chord was sponsored by Nile Rogers of the We Are Family Foundation.
Shake The Tree was recorded at Metrophonic Studios, outside London in the summer of 2010. Nell collaborated with British guitarist and Songwriter Patrick Mascall, with whom she began writing songs that reflected their mutual admiration for the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris. By the following autumn, they had amassed forty songs.
