Chrysta Bell Announces LA and SF Performances
Chrysta Bell will perform in San Francisco and Los Angeles at concerts presented by David Lynch this May. She begins on Thursday, May 9 at Bimbos 365 Club (1025 Columbus Ave, San Francisco) and then lands Sunday, May 12 in Los Angeles in a show sponsored by 89.9 KCRW at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever (6000 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles). "The first time I saw her perform, I thought she was like an alien. The most beautiful alien ever," Lynch says.
Tickets for Bimbos ($18 in advance, $20, day of show) are available at http://www.bimbos365club.com, and tickets for the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever (Admission is $25) are available at http://www.hollywoodforever.com/culture. (Please note: David Lynch will not be in attendance for the SF event.)
Dior premiered Chrysta Bell's "Real Love" in their recent commercial for the perfume Hypnotic Poison. Watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el-Mv8l0UM0
Chrysta Bell also secured a fashion spread and feature in Italian Vogue's February 2013 issue shot by renowned high-fashion photographer Emma Summerton as well as a stunning music video for "Friday Night Fly" directed by Trevor Undi, shot exclusively for V Magazine.com. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JDUEZMxdbk
A longtime collaborator with Bell, Lynch first began working with the San Francisco-based singer-songwriter in 2000. The legendary filmmaker's surreal epic Inland Empire, saw the use of the duo's song "Polish Poem," a classically Lynchian ballad, spotlighted in the film's closing moments.
Building on their powerful chemistry, the pair reunited for Bell's debut, This Train. Released on La Rose Noire, the 11-song album was produced and written by Lynch. Evocative of Lynch's film and teleVision Productions - as well as his recent solo debut Crazy Clown Time - the album's dark and airy musical soundscapes conjure a dramatic atmosphere that allows Bell's breathy inflections and soulful melodies to truly take flight. Lynch adds: "Chrysta Bell is not only a killer performer, she also has a great intuitive ability to catch a mood and find a melody that's really spectacular."
Bell certainly fits Lynch's vision of the femme fatale archetype, projecting an on-stage persona that references Julie London, Rita Hayworth and Isabella Rossellini. "She was born to sing and be on stage," Lynch says of Bell. A recent London performance earned Bell comparisons to Portishead and Massive Attack from the Web site, theupcoming.co.uk, which added that "Bell's on-stage persona propels her to another level entirely."
Indeed, her fiery, multimedia performances around the world have forged true believers in London, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Montreal and Austin, Texas, which is not far from her hometown San Antonio. Raised there by her mother, a professional vocalist, and her stepfather, who owned a local recording studio, Bell was singing jingles by the time she was 11 and doing musical theater at 13. She first caught Lynch's attention years later when she was the lead vocalist of RCA Victor's gypsy swing act 8 ½ Souvenirs.
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