1. Olga Bell was born on Olga Balashova, Russian:, 3 October 1983 and is an American musician, music producer, composer, and singer-songwriter.
12 Facts About Olga Bell
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Olga Bell was born in Moscow, Russia, raised in Anchorage, Alaska and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
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Olga Bell started playing the piano at age seven, after moving with her mother from Moscow to Anchorage, Alaska and made her public debut two years later.
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Olga Bell's studied under Svetlana Velichko, a former Moscow Conservatory professor and Samuel Feinberg student, and at age twelve performed an original composition for piano and orchestra with her hometown Anchorage Symphony.
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Olga Bell was a fellow of The Banff Centre and Yale's Norfolk Festival, where she studied with Claude Frank and members of the Juilliard, Tokyo and St Petersburg String Quartets.
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Olga Bell bought a laptop and started recording herself, singing into the built-in mic and making beats.
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In 2011, with Chiavaro and McMurray having left the band, Olga Bell worked with Jason Nazary and Gunnar Olsen to produce and release her first full-length album, Diamonite.
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From 2011 to 2013, Olga Bell toured as a keyboardist and vocalist for Chairlift and Dirty Projectors.
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In mid-2015, Olga Bell toured with Son Lux and premiered live versions of songs from Incitation, an EP she released on One Little Indian Records later that year, and Tempo, a full-length album to be released the following year.
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On 12 August 2015, Nowness premiered the video for "Goalie", the last track on Incitation, which Olga Bell co-directed with Christina Ladwig.
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Olga Bell worked with Noah Kalina to produce a lyric video for the EP's title track.
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On 9 March 2016, Olga Bell released "Randomness", which Pitchfork named Best New Track.