Elle Varner
Elle Varner
Gabrielle Serene "Elle" Varner is an American Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Raised in Los Angeles, she studied at New York University's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. In October 2009, she signed with RCA Records along with a co-publishing agreement with Sony Music...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth12 February 1989
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
One of my favorite dishes is this alfredo I make, and I make the sauce from scratch. I love making everything from scratch.
I love all things crafty. I love to make jewelry. I love to cut up old clothes and turn them into something new. I love projects like transforming a busted table into a shiny new table. I'm really into restoration and little side projects.
I was really heavy growing up, so it was never feeling like the pretty girl, never being popular.
I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.
It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.
Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.
It’s nine o’clock on Sunday night/Do you know where your man is?
I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.
As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.
As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.
One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.
I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.
Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.
One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.