Ella Jane

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Ella Jane
Birth nameElla Jane Roth
Origin Westchester County, New York, U.S.
Years active2019-present
Labels Fader Label

Ella Jane Roth is an American singer-songwriter known professionally as Ella Jane. She has released two albums, This is Not What it Looks Like! (2021) and Marginalia (2022).

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Early life and education

Roth was born and raised in Westchester County, New York to a Jewish family. [1] [2] Her father, a jazz pianist, named her after singer Ella Fitzgerald. [2] She began playing the piano when she was four years old and she started songwriting when she was eleven. [3] Roth attended Tufts University in the fall of 2020 as an English major. [4] [3] She dropped out to move to Brooklyn and pursue music full-time. [3] [1]

Career

In February 2020, she independently released "The City" using GarageBand. [5] This was followed "Nothing Else I Could Do" in July 2020. [5] It was written in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic after a creative and emotional rut. [4] For her final creative project in AP English Literature and Composition, she chose to write a song inspired by The Great Gatsby . [4] She posted the song on TikTok in October 2020. The Tiktok video of her performance of the song went viral, gathering over 2 million views. [4] Roth was signed to Fader Label in 2020. [6]

Fader Label released Ella Jane's debut album, This is Not What it Looks Like!, on September 10, 2021. [7] [8] Her single, "Calling Card," released on October 26, 2021 and has over 500,000 streams on Spotify. [9] Roth performed her track "Calling Card" on Elton John's Rocket Hour radio show on Apple Music. [3] The song was influenced by the character, Cassie, in Euphoria. [3]

In 2022, "Nothing Else I Could Do" was featured as part of the soundtrack of the Netflix TV series, Heartstopper. [10] [11] In 2022, she relocated to Los Angeles after living for a year in Brooklyn. [1] On October 28, 2022, Roth released her second album, Marginalia. [12] In 2022, she released the pop song "Sore Loser" with Charlie Hickey. [13] Roth cites singers Lorde, Taylor Swift, and Phoebe Bridgers, among her lyrical influences. [12] In 2023, Ella Jane posted on her Instagram the album "Circuitos Sintéticos" by Brazilian music producer Arlyzinho BR, [14] [15] gaining recognition on various Brazilian news portals. [16] [17]

Discography

List of EPs
TitleDetails
This Is Not What It Looks Like!
Marginalia
  • Released: October 28, 2022
  • Label: Fader Label

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