Jendayi Bonds chats with Amy Poehler, named “It Girl”
by Austin Chronicle. Nylon premieres trio’s “Get To Know” video.
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Charlie
Belle (L-R): Gyasi Bonds, Jendayi Bonds, Zoe Czarnecki. Photo Credit: Barclay
Ice & Coal.
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CHARLIE
BELLE – IN THE PRESS
NYLON says
“To put it simply, these are some of the raddest kids around.”
“Yup, she rocks.” – AUSTIN CHRONICLE names
Jendayi Bonds of Charlie Belle Austin’s “It Girl”
“Super-melodic, toe-tapping guitar-pop” is how ROOKIE describes
“Get To Know.”
“Everybody is getting to know Charlie Belle.” – MTV
IGGY
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Charlie Belle is an Austin, Texas-based trio comprised of three
teenagers with 30-plus years of music-making between them. The group, comprised
of sister and brother Jendayi Bonds
(vocals, guitar) and Gyasi Bonds
(drums, vocals), and Zoe Czarnecki
(bass) will see the national release of its debut EP on January 13th, 2015.
The band’s catchy sing-alongs bring to mind the
English “alternapop” sound of 90’s – bands such as The Sundays, Belly, and The Lemonheads (more popular in the UK
than its native Boston, after all) to name a few. Charlie
Belle – named for the Bonds
siblings’ great-grandmother – further sites Esperanza Spalding, The
Strokes, and Arctic Monkeys as
more contemporary influences.
At 16-years-old, Jendayi
is the elder in Charlie Belle. Born
in Atlanta, she picked up the guitar at seven years old after moving to
Philadelphia, quickly began writing her own songs, and at the age of ten,
formed Charlie Belle with Gyasi after relocating to Austin in
2008. Gyasi was only four when he began drum lessons and it didn’t take
long to discover that he was a natural.
In 2011, the then-duo covered “Strange Powers” (dang, these kids are cool!) for a series of
videos related to the promotion of the documentary of the same name about The Magnetic Fields. Shot in Gyasi’s
bedroom when he was just eight-years-old, the clip later landed
them in USA Today.
Soon after, Jendayi
was interviewed by Amy Poehler as part of the comedienne’s
“Smart Girls” web series and, at age
14, Jendayi fulfilled a personal
goal when Charlie Belle was invited
to perform at the Austin City Limits
festival, an appearance that became the jump-off point for the band as a live
act in Austin.
As Charlie
Belle begins down the road towards national recognition with the national
release of its debut EP, the band is continuing to get noticed at home. Just this fall, The Austin Chronicle named
Jendayi the “Best ‘It’ Girl” in the
paper’s annual “Best of Austin” issue, summing up their coverage with a simple
statement: “Yup, she rocks.”
Austin-based trio Charlie
Belle will see the national release of its debut EP “Get To Know” on January 13th,
2015. Members of Charlie Belle are
available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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Charlie Belle
“Get To Know” EP
(S/R – Jan. 13th, 2015)
Track Listing:
02. Shake You Off
03. Metaphorically Speaking
04. Key To My Heart
05. Under The Rug
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Charlie Belle Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
