Years active 2011–present Name Arielle Arielle | Role Singer | |
Born August 3, 1990 (age 33) ( 1990-08-03 ) Short Hills, New Jersey, U.S. Occupation Musician, singer, songwriter Website www.officialarielle.org Profiles | ||
Arielle (born August 3, 1990) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitar player born in Short Hills, New Jersey, and raised in San Mateo, California. Her musical inspiration comes from music groups such as Queen and Boston.
Early life and career
At the age of five, Arielle began singing with the Peninsula Girls Chorus of California. Her father bought her first guitar when she was ten years old. By the age of sixteen, she had worked with musicians such as Nuno Bettencourt, Michael Angelo Batio, Uli Jon Roth of Scorpions, and Brian May, the lead guitarist of Queen. In 2011, she was a guitarist for Cee Lo Green at Coachella, after which she was signed to Open E entertainment. That same year, she was featured on the cover of Guitar Player Magazine's online magazine Guts & Glitter.
In 2012, Arielle sang with a number of global activists in Taiji to protest dolphin slaughter. She also opened for Heart, Joan Jett, and Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills & Nash at Kiss the Sky in 2014, which was a concert raising awareness for captive whales and dolphins.
In 2013, she teamed up with Red Decibel Music Group (Adam Watts & Gannin Arnold) to produce her EP California, an acoustic guitar folk/pop track; this track became one of her most notable and played songs. Her video of the song ranked #3 on CMT Country Pure Charts.
Arielle also designs guitars, and has more recently set up her own recording studio, where she records and releases material independently.