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Dolly Lowe

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DOLLY LOWE

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Dolly started life as a pretty little Goldilocks growing up in a big house in the forest just outside Paris. She had a horse and a dog and 4 big brothers. Just 2 years old she had her first part in a feature film, an adaptation of Peer Gynt featured only this year in the San Francisco Independent Film Festival. Then she started singing, but in secret – she sang for the animals in the forest not one human being knew she had a voice.

Swallowing that timidity that often veils the brashness of an artist Dolly asked for singing lessons and fortunately for her there happened to live nearby that great Franco Iranian opera singer, Ariana Vafaradi (https://www.arianavafadari.com) who took Dolly under her wing. Ariana sings opera, traditional Persian folk music and has performed with DJ Chambord, at Burning Man – she’s eclectic.

Dolly took a liking for Jazz – she studied the classics – Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday. Then one day she got on stage in front of people including her parents and sang « I’d Rather Go Blind ». A star in the making was born, with a musicians notion of harmony and rhythm and improvisation far beyond her years... and a hypnotic presence on stage.

Dolly moved to LA – her family was awarded green cards in the diversity lottery. On the plane to LA, even before landing, an acting manager approached her mum and said that the 15 year old girl who was her daughter had something special and wanted to see her when we got to LA. This was the same manager who discovered Julia Roberts, Uma Thurma – the manager of Julia Fox, Soko. He knew what special meant. He introduced Dolly to the world renowned photographer, Bruce Weber, lover of jazz and director of the award winning documentary on Chet Baker, Let’s Get Lost. She became his muse – singing at his latest book launch with no other than the great bass player, John Leftwich (Melody Gardot, Pharrel Williams, Rickie Lee Jones, Carmen McRae...). Her acting coach, John Ruskin introduced her to Billy Steinberg (Whitney Houston, The Bangles, Madonna, Cyndi lauper) and she found herself in a studio recording for Billy and Rick Nowels (Madonna, Lana Del Rey). Dolly was also « discovered » by the late great Barbara Morrison singing regularly with her and her band at the mythical LA jazz place, Pips on La Brea.

Meanwhile Dolly’s acting career was starting to take off. She was invited to Texas to do tests with Taylor Sheridan in late Spring 2023, but the actor’s strike stopped all projects in development. Dolly concentrated on her singing, moving to New York where she’s working as a model (Bruce Weber, Brigitte Lacombe, Tierney Gearon) and singing in the clubs. She appeared in Martin Scorsese's Super Bowl commercial for Squarespace.

Recently she’s performed sets at The Nines, Small’s, The Ned Hotel, Williamsburg Music Center, Casa Cipriani notably accompanied by the jazz pianist Elew (https://elewrockjazz.com). She even dropped by the mythical Chelsea Hotel and gave a private impromptu concert for Jefferson Hack and Pat Cleveland.

Dolly sings songs from the Great American Songbook, jazz and blues standards – her repertoire is extensive and extremely varied covering several continents, she sings in fluent English and French. She also writes her own songs, ballads, quirky pop songs, rock, even venturing into girl's band type punk.

It’s not often you get a beautiful girl who can sing beautifully, or a beautiful singer who is naturally beautiful. Dolly is Amy Winehouse, Billie Holiday, Brigitte Bardot all rolled into one.

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