Joséphine Ancelle was featured at the May 2010 French Culture Nights event.
Joséphine Ancelle left her Paris home at the tender age of 17, moving to Montreal in pursuit of her dream—a career in music. Her two years there found her making major strides toward this goal, recording a Vibe-Award winning album with the People’s Gospel Choir of Montréal, and also singing in a Narta television commercial airing in France. She soon realized she had to make another move to chase her dream.
Upon arriving in New York, Joséphine co-wrote, recorded and independently released her first album, Unfinished Life, in November 2007. She quickly made an impact on the local scene in New York, playing famed venues such as The Bitter End, The Living Room, Crash Mansion, The Sidewalk Cafe and Cafe Vivaldi. Appearances on NYC TV, mentions in publications such as Time Out New York and Metro New York, some stateside airplay on online radio and podcasts, and the development of her music video for “I Think of You” followed. The FIAF (French Institute – Alliance Française) even calls on her talents to participate in their Bastille Day concerts in the Big Apple as well as for other events.
Joséphine’s mostly guitar-based and frequently bi-lingual pop-folk songs are highly personal and complex, often balancing introspection and vulnerability with jubilance and confidence. Her sound has been compared favorably to Lisa Loeb and can be described as Sixpence None The Richer interpreted by Ingrid Michaelson and Yael Naim. Wildy Haskell, renowned blogger of Wildy’s World, states that “Ancelle has one of those voices where you just hope she never stops singing,” and muses, “There is something incredibly pure and heartfelt about Ancelle’s singing style … It’s just pure emotion, honest written and transfer from heart to voice and heart to guitar.”
In December 2010, following up her success to The I Love Yous, Joséphine Ancelle released a new selection of hits, entitled Ends With Always, recorded in Nashville with renowned producer, Paul Umbach. She is currently promoting the new album while preparing a tour for the Fall 2011 that will take her from the US West Coast to London and Paris.
For more information visit her website
