Nicole Dollanganger

Nicole Dollanganger
Born (1991-09-08) September 8, 1991
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
Years active 2012–present
Labels
Website nicoledollanganger.com

Nicole Dollanganger (born September 8, 1991) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who currently resides in Whitchurch–Stouffville. She began posting songs on Tumblr in early 2012 and wrote and recorded her first four records in her bedroom while sick on bed rest.[1]

In 2015, she became featured on Grimes' Eerie Organization, a collaborative created solely for the purpose of releasing Dollanganger's album, Natural Born Losers.[2] She later went on to assist Grimes on the Rhinestone Cowgirls Tour in the fall.[3]

Nicole's stage name "Nicole Dollanganger" is a reference to the 1979 "Dollanganger Children" series by V. C Andrews.

Career

2012–2014: Career beginnings and early recordings

Early in 2012, Dollanganger was hospitalized and put on bed rest where she began writing and posting songs on her blog. She had been using Tumblr for about a year when she posted her first song "Coma Baby". She says of that experience, "It was the first song I’d ever written and recorded by myself, so I was extremely nervous about the whole thing. I had decided to post it and delete it a few minutes later, only in those few minutes I received an overwhelming amount of encouragement and support".[4] It was later included on her first album Curdled Milk.

Over the next 2 years, she went on to release Flowers of Flesh and Blood, Ode to Dawn Wiener: Embarrassing Love Songs, and Observatory Mansions. She sold each record in limited runs of handmade CDs and cassettes.[5]

2015–present: Eerie Organization and Natural Born Losers

In 2015, Dollanganger opened for Lana Del Rey alongside Grimes at their joint show in Toronto. Grimes later announced the Eerie Organization, claiming to have started the collaborative to put out Dollanganger's album, Natural Born Losers. "It's a crime against humanity for this music not to be heard", she stated.[6] In late 2015, Dollanganger was the support for Grimes' Rhinestone Cowgirls Tour.[7] Rolling Stone featured her as one of "10 New Artists You Need To Know", stating that her "gothic folk songs detailing mental illness, guns, sexual violence, poverty and death are as beautiful as they are brutal." [8]

In March 2016, her song "Chapel" was featured in the soundtrack of an episode of the television series The Walking Dead.[9] Dollanganger later embarked on a co-headlining tour with Elvis Depressedly and Teen Suicide in fall 2016.[10]

Discography

Albums

EPs

References

Nicole Dollanganger Official Site

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