Pool Of Sound - Eleanor Nelly

The young songstress Eleanor Nelly from Huyton has made her name across the Liverpool music scene since her debut performance at the Cavern Pub's Monday club at the tender age of 14. She began gigging around Liverpool at the age of 13 and credits the city's supportive music scene as instrumental to her success. Her favourite memory is in fact her first gig. "I was like twelve or thirteen and went down to this pub in Liverpool called The Albert. I turned up and literally had to play one song because they were worried about me being in there because I was so young…so I got up and played 'Valerie'. People played along with me and sang with me - and it was just the start and I didn't even know it! It always gives me such a warm feeling thinking about it."

In 2014, aged 14, she had won the Knowsley Housing Trust Rising Stars competition which gives one lucky young person the chance to pursue their dream of a music career. Eleanor certainly grasped that opportunity with both hands.

The years between 15 and 18 are always significant, but for Eleanor Nelly they have proved life-changing. In 2015, she was named 'One To Watch' by Liverpool International Music Festival Academy and in 2016 was named one of LIMF Academy's Most Ready artists. With a sound that merges country, blues and rock 'n' roll, Eleanor sings about stories that are straight from the heart, songs that are honest and true.

At Zanzibar in Liverpool. January 2016

She says her performance with the Philharmonic Youth Company at LIMF in 2016 remains "the most surreal experience of my life and forever my favourite memory." In that show she worked alongside the composer Katie Chatburn to perform three songs with the Phil's Youth Orchestra which demonstrated that she was not fazed by a big occasion showing her immense capability in a live setting.

In January 2017 she announced on her Facebook page that she had signed a management deal with the legendary Decca Records and, with the upcoming release of her new EP, the incredible pace of the past two years showed no sign of slowing. With her new E.P. `Insane & Loved' having been released in time for her 16th birthday she was already causing quite a stir. Her highlights from this whirlwind period include writing music in Nashville, supporting Rhys Lewis on her first tour and recording in Abbey Road Studios.

In 2018 she released her debut single 'Polaroid' which she had written on her trip to Nashville the previous year. The video accompanying it was filmed in the 'Bombed Out Church', St Lukes, in Liverpool on a freezing cold day. It was from the EP, 'People Like Us' which contains five songs, written with heart, penned with the world arguably on her shoulders, but as someone that never gives in. Eleanor Nelly inhabits the role of a majestic 21st Century wandering troubadour to great applause, a songbird with a voice that both breaks your heart but tells you in no uncertain terms of how loved you are in the world. This is an E.P. that captures just how far this great Liverpool export has come. On her Facebook page in 2021 she posted, " My EP 'The Best Is Yet To Come' is out now on all streaming platforms!! Can't wait for you to all finally hear the songs I've had with me for the last few yearsXXX. Supporting the lovely and unbelievably talented John Witherspoon Music next month at EBGBS, Seel Street on the 20th of December."

 

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