ELODIE REVERIE Ethereal, Mesmerizing, Intriguing. What inspired you to begin a career in music? In December of 2018 while I was living in LA working as a documentary production assistant I decided I wanted to learn to produce music using Logic. Although those close to me would agree it came out of the blue, they’d also agree that it made sense. I’ve played piano since I was 5 years old, which allowed me to hone my naturally instinctive ear. In college for an assignment to create a documentary, I’d recently started voice lessons and made a documentary about my quest to write a song, deciding at the very least it would be a good portrait on dealing with gender, elite higher education, and failure, and I surprised myself and the songwriting seed was planted. I loved jazz singing so much, I even opened for Macy Gray and Wyclef Jean at a Jazz Foundation of America event for an audience of 500 people. I was discouraged by the Amy documentary, and decided to focus my efforts on documentary and moved away from music. It was always on and off. I remember when I was living in LA, I went on a karaoke date with a CAA floater and I BOMBED so I quit for months.
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I worked on a documentary about slam poetry called Don’t Be Nice as a post-production assistant,
and at the center of the storyline was an incredibly creative inspirational coach, and I think being exposed to her was formative for my creativity and decision to create my own music. In December of 2018 I set my resolution to create music. I think LA gave me the space to dream and think and let my mind wander in a way New York(where I’m from) didn’t. I stumbled into a free intro to Logic class at the Apple Store in January of 2019 and I created Fire in the Desert. I began to release music under the stage name Elodie (rhymes with Melody) Rêverie (also rhymes with melody and means daydream in French). Within a year I had 12 pages of google results, close to 200 reviews of my music, traveled to Scotland for a songwriting retreat, and opened for Hoobastank. I’m approaching 2 years and haven’t looked back. Describe your sound in 3 words? Ethereal, Mesmerizing, Intriguing. What differs you and your sound from other upcoming artists in the music industry? One key thing. I harness my emotions, and other people connect with my lyrics, voice and melodies on an emotional level. I think we should all be tak ing our time to create music we want to hear in the world, and focus on that emotion. Today, there is so
