V'nessa Tzavellas

Artist Information

Biography

2007 Releases EP "Beautiful Things", receives positive reviews & is compared to artists such as: Christina Aguilera, Annie Lennox, Shakira, Joss Stone.

2007 Northeast Semifinalist in the 2007 Discmakers IMWS (Independent Music World Series).

2007 Song "Flashes" featured on "Gotta have our Pops" JJ Sugar Volume 3 Compilation cd 2007

2008 Chosen to perform MEANYFest at NYC's Knitting Factory

2008 Winner of Singer's Universe

2009 EP Title track "Beautiful Things, featured in T. George McArdle's short psychological thriller, "Spin Slowly" & in the movie soundtrack, available at:
http://www.stellajayne.com/SJ_Merchandise.html

2009 Top 20 Finalist in the 12th annual Unisong International Songwriting Contest with song "Flashes"

"Beautiful Things, from V'nessa Tzavellas, is a record that showcases an artist who is not reluctant to lay out, in song, her deepest thoughts for everyone to see. Tzavellas's environment is echoed in each track as her emotive timbre will send listeners a vision of life and all of it's perks. Sari N. Kent, Celebrity Cafe

The striking, streetwise Tzavellas hits the mark on this one, we can't wait to see where she goes next. David Malachowski, SOUND ADVICE - Daily Freeman

V'nessa Tzavellas offers something new and innovative to today's pop music. This Queens native's sound is as unique as her background. Her Greek father & Nuyorican mother created a very unlikely & diverse musical environment, an apparant contribution to her vibrant form of urban rock with a world influence. Her clever song-writing and soulful voice creates a collection of six eclectic, catchy tunes on her EP, "Beautiful Things" serving up a taste of what's to come on Tzavellas' full-length CD which she is currently recording. Doing something that is both ambitious and intriguing, she is determined to create a spirited, stimulating, performance-oriented project. Intent on getting her original and genre-bending music heard by the masses, it now seems likely that listeners will spend more time enjoying it than trying to label it.

Instrumentation

Discography

EP "Beautiful Things" includes tracks "Afterglow", "Controlled", "Flashes", "Beautiful Things", "Nothing" & "Days Like These" that can be heard on:
Plattsburgh Pipeline Radio

Off The beat & Track on WKZE - 98.1 FM - Red Hook, NY-www.wkze.com- Sat. nights 9-11

ROBIN HOOD RADIO.COM -www.robinhoodradio.com- Sat. nights 9-11 (Rebroadcast Sunday 9-11pm, Thurs. & Friday 7-9pm)

Scene Unseen - The Hudson Valley Music Showcase

6:00 - 8:00 PM every Wednesday on 91.3 FM WVKR Poughkeepsie...request line: 845-437-7178

Girlsrockradio.com

Harrisradio.com

Engage internet radio on evolvingartist.com

nefariousbovineradio.com

From The Underground, thursday Nights from 7 till 10 pm est
WNRC 97.5 FM Nichols College Radio, streeming on the web at: www.nichols.edu/wnrc

Official Website

http://myspace.com/vnessatzavellas

Audio

• Beautiful Things (Radio Edit)
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• Flashes
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• Controlled
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• Afterglow
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• Flashes Remix
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Lyrics

• Flashes
• Beautiful things
• Controlled
• Aftergow

Video

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Press

• Pair of Regional EPs shows promise for two singers [+ Show ]
  

  ARTIST: V'nessa Tzavellas ALBUM: Beautiful Things Beacon-based Queens native V'nessa Tzavellas off...ARTIST: V'nessa Tzavellas
  ALBUM: Beautiful Things
  Beacon-based Queens native V'nessa Tzavellas offers a refreshingly different EP produced with polish by Chris Cubeta.
  It's starting point is urban pop, funk and rock, but where it delightfully departs it into latin and Eastern European modalities and that's where the real magic begins. Tzavellas' passionate pipes turn up the heat, as she can wrap herself around any melody. There's an inherent hip-hop sensibility to her phrasing that is both clever and contemporary.
  Her lush, thick voice, and slow vibrato rock "Afterglow" (Colo Bondz rhymes in the middle). Tzavellas' voice really cuts loose in "Beautiful Things," as it crosses the line between really good and potential hit. The surfire "Flashes" has an underlying heat. , "Controlled" deeply grooves while she asserts her independence. The striking, streetwise Tzavellas hits the mark on this one, we can't wait to see where she goes next.
  For more information, visit www.myspace.com/vnessatzavellas
  David Malachowski

• V'nessa Tzavellas [+ Show ]
  

  V'nessa Tzavellas is an evocative artists whose varied ethnicity is reflected on every track of her ...V'nessa Tzavellas is an evocative artists whose varied ethnicity is reflected on every track of her album "Beautiful Things" This Queens, New York, native has taken the influences from her Greek father and her Nuyorican mother and produced tracks that are soulful with a pop twist.
  
  Guitar and drum work on the first track has an expressive vibe. On this song, Tzavellas sings about her innermost emotions. “I shine like the light of the moon on the ocean…Ever-changing motion. Oh, the tide is takin’ all control, washin’ over me like waves crashin’ up its shore.” The meditative picture that Tzavellas paints here for listeners promotes calmness and serenity.
  
  The second song has salient acoustic guitar. Then drum work that seems to have assistance from a synthesizer joins the melody, giving the song a completely different sound. Tzavellas speaks of not concealing oneself because of fear. “At time it seems easier to blind myself…Evils of the world but if you’re livin’ your life behind those lies, you also hide from the light and all that is right. Beautiful things, there out there. You need only see them. Beautiful things, around us. Weren’t only made for dreamin’. Beautiful things, there out there. You only need to believe them. Beautiful things, around us. Weren’t only made for dreamin’.” This song tells listeners that if they really examine what is in front of them, they will find magnificent things that might not have caught their eye previously.
  
  “Beautiful Things,” from V’nessa Tzavellas, is a record that showcases an artist who is not at all reluctant to lay out, in song, her deepest thoughts for everyone to see. Tzavellas’s environment is echoed in each track as her emotive timbre will send listeners a vision of life and all of its perks.
  
  Reviewer: Sari N, Kent
  
  
  

Setlist

7 originals, 2 to 6 covers, depending on venue. Sets can go anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour depending on the show. Working on more originals at the moment so the sets will soon consist of more original material.

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