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Vital Stats
DOB: 12/23/1985
Place of birth: Seattle, WA
Currently resides in: Los Angeles, CA
Education: graduated high school at age 16
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Trademark look: Bright red hair and romantic, feminine clothing
Eye color: Green/Grey
Height: 5' 7''
Nickname(s): A Fine Frenzy / Alison Monro
Hobbies/outside interests: reading, writing, cooking
Charities/causes: | Artist Biography
"her music is haunting" Selma Blair/INTERVIEW MAGAZINE
"A Fine Frenzy is a blend of sounds and influences. Where there's Ella, Aretha and Louis, there's also Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Aqualung and Keane" HARP Magazine
A Fine Frenzy is the music of 22 year-old Alison Sudol.
Born in Seattle to dramatic-arts teacher parents, Alison moved to Los Angeles at the age five. With her newly single mother, Alison moved frequently around the city. She developed a strong love for the fantastic literary worlds of CS Lewis, EB White, Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens, while becoming a passionate author in her own right.
Alison also immersed herself in classical music, Motown, Aretha Franklin, swing bands, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, Technicolor movies and classic 1950's television.
After teaching herself to play piano, Alison increasingly invested her internal narratives into song form. She found solace in the melodic melancholia of new global British bands Aqualung, Radiohead, Coldplay and Keane, etc... She was also moved by the diatonic minimalism of Philip Glass and the transportive allure of Icelandic music (Bjork, Sigur Ros.) Inspired, Alison developed the sound of A Fine Frenzy - hypnotic piano arrangements under classic American melody fused into irresistible, atmospheric songs with the power to reach around the world.
Career Highlights
Background in music: Self-taught piano
Instruments: Piano, keyboards, vocals, starting the guitar
First band/big break: Virgin Records
Former band(s): Monro
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Musical icons/influences: Motown, Aretha Franklin, swing bands, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, Aqualung, Radiohead, Coldplay, Keane, Philip Glass, and Icelandic music (Bjork, Sigur Ros)
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Key milestones: Played for the chairman of Virgin Records in Alison's mother's living room!!
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"Whatever you believe in, or don't believe in, we all came from somewhere. We're all connected and we're all living beings." - A lot of people are much better at being super weird and out there than me. I like bringing it down a little to really look at it, and then I can become a part of the music as I observe it.
- I like continuing to be a normal human being and somebody that does what normal people do. I don't want to become this personality or someone who hates taking out the garbage. And I hate taking out the garbage. I've always hated taking out the garbage
- I don't even know how to write 'modern' music. I just know what I grew up with were classically crafted songs with real melodies.
- I think this industry can get too focused on a person as an entity or celebrity but I make music and at the end of the day. it should be about the music. It's not really about me. I want people to experience the record as their own and not as my viewpoint of the world
- I always wanted to be an artist of some sort and I was really shy growing up, so performing didn't really seem like a natural choice, but whenever I got on stage to do something I felt more comfortable than I did in real life
- I think that music comes in waves and there was kind of a hole for a while there. There was room for singer-songwriters who are doing something that was more alternative and different and now, we seem to be rising at the same time. And I think it's fantastic.
- (describing her music) It's sort of like the soundtrack to a fairytale. It's a bit consumed with love stories and the lovesick.
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Other Credits - Alison's acting debut! She plays "Nova Kent" on CSI: NY episode, "Can You Hear Me Now?", which aired on September 26, 2007.
- Plays "Singer" in the 2004 movie, "Little Black Boot"
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PHOTOS
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Alison looking elegant in a vintage looking b&w photograph
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Shhh!
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Alison preparing to sing. |
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Escaping!
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