18-year-old singer/songwriter ella jane's electric debut onto the indie-pop scene is only just beginning. The daughter of a jazz pianist, ella jane took her first steps fumbling to a syncopated swing beat. With the lyrics of her namesake Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong as her nursery rhymes, the singer was born and raised entangled in a love affair with music and language. She sang as much as she spoke, and was always writing - and so, equipped with a sharp ear and a passion for the music that illuminated her childhood, the small-town, metropolitan New York native decided it was time to write songs of her own. She soon fell hard and fast in love with songwriting and the stories she could tell with just a melody and metaphor; and the more she refined her taste in music, the more she strove to refine her compositions. Drawing from a wide range of musical and lyrical inspirations, ella jane soaks her youth in rich, vivid imagery, and with each song she seeks to neatly wrap tough, raw emotion in the silk ribbons of a dreamy pop hook.