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| Birth name | Kelsey Elizabeth McJunkins |
| Born | May 12, 1991 Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Origin | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Avant pop, [1] baroque pop [2] |
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| Years active | 2016–present |
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| Website | www |
Kelsey Elizabeth McJunkins (born May 12, 1991), known professionally as Kelsey Lu, is an American singer and cellist based in Los Angeles, California. [3]
Kelsey Lu was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and had a strict Jehovah's Witness upbringing. [4] Both of Lu's parents are musicians: her father is a percussionist, her mother a pianist. [5] Her father's family hails from Nigeria. [6] Lu began studying classical composition at age 6, learning piano, violin, and cello. [4] At age 18, Lu left their family home to attend the University of North Carolina School of the Arts on a scholarship. [5] A year later, she dropped out of the school. [7]
Kelsey Lu recorded her debut EP, Church, in a church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. [8] During this time, she toured with the band Wet as her opening act. [4] She released Church in 2016. [9] She released her debut album, Blood, in 2019. [10] In that year, she also released Blood Transfusion, a collection of remixes of tracks from Blood. [11]
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| Title | Year | Album |
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| "Shades of Blue" [12] | 2018 | Non-album single |
| "Due West" [13] | Blood | |
| "Morning Dew" [14] | 2020 | Non-album single |
| "let all the poisons that lurk in the mud seep out" (with Yves Tumor featuring Kelly Moran and Moses Boyd) [15] | ||
| "Ride or Die" (with Boys Noize featuring Chilly Gonzales) [16] | 2021 |
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| "Where or When" [17] | 2020 | Onyx Collective | Manhattan Special |
| "Manchild" | 2022 | Neneh Cherry | The Versions |
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