Biography
Kelly Zullo is a rising singer-songwriter, though she uses the term loosely. Like most singer song-writers, using a guitar and voice, Kelly Zullo is energy, upbeat, and philosophy all in one. Playing her instrument as percussion and guitar at once, Kelly's tribal strumming and singing at once create a unique and passionate slant on the singer song-writer that doesn't reiterate the norm. Invoking to-the-point anecdotes on life paired with an aggressive, passionate guitar/ dance-beat, the usually delicate singer song-writer set is renewed into a quirky, honest craziness.
Featured in the Nashville music scene as one of the best 3 unsigned female acts on the circuit in her last rise to the surface, Kelly has re-surfaced with stronger lyrics, as a stronger instrumentalist and a lot more sincerity and material than in her previous days on the Nashville circuit. She has opened for some of her favorite artists such as Melissa Ferrick, Michelle Malone, Natalia Zukerman, and released 2 albums with a studio sound.
With just a guitar and a voice, Kelly Zullo makes a statement with passion which has been recognized in her 2 releases 'Thin Line' and 'Case of Truce', studio albums which got some reviews such as..
"she's got spunk. Zullo's themes aren't necessarily groundbreaking (whose are?), but she infuses them with passion, honesty, and--just as importantly--big, fat guitar riffs." -Upstage Magazine
"Each of the half dozen songs of broken love and life's tribulations come through like true poetry framed in exquisite folk-pop but unfettered by excessive studio tricks or ostentatious arrangements" -Womanrock.com
"lingers somewhere in the Melissa Etheridge and Michelle Shocked relam, and her writing is truthful and simple" -Performing Songwriter
46 jobs in between music, Kelly took time to live life after the first independent try and travelled/ worked bike messengering in NYC, waiting tables, office work, modeling, and working and traveling the US.
Independent Radio Airplay:
WHHB Bloomington, IN
PIXY 103 Cape Cod's Rock
Chicago Local Radio,
WCRD Ball State Univ.,
WLCV Univ of Louisville,
WMUA 91.1 fm Acoustic Cafe,
CUIT Univ. of Toronto,
CKMS 100.3 fm, Univ. of Waterloo,
Women In Music (Nat'l syndicated show)
Print Publications:
Maverick-Country UK
Performing Songwriter
Southern Voice
Time Out New York
The Tennessean
In Review (Nashville, TN)
Chattanooga Times
Instrumentation
Kelly Zullo: Guitar and Vocals
Discography
A Case of Truce (2006) - " Especially noteworthy is the independent woman approach of 'Stone Girl', with some great lyrics, stunning guitar work and a vibrant vocal." --Maverick Magazine UK
Thin Line (2001) - Performing Songwriter's top 12 DIY
Les Femmes Qui Rock (1999) Compilation cd
Links
| http://www.kellyzullomusic.com |
| Myspace |
| Web Page |