Celia Chavez Music

Celia Chavez takes a new solo moniker, Babilonia, to celebrate her new five-song EP titled "If I Ever Think To Double Back". Following over a decade of steady touring and recording with Enrique Iglesias, P!nk, Melody Gardot, Julia Fordham, reggae legend Burning Spear and her original acoustic duo Petty Chavez, her new moniker Babilonia presents Chavez clearly as a skilled, compelling singer-songwriter claiming her place at the front of her own formidable band.

Chavez braids together strands of music she's lived and loved — her parents’ jazz and soul records in Seattle, her hometown; the indie electricity of New York City’s Lower East Side and Brooklyn; the songcraft of Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles (where she now resides).

The name Babilonia (her grandmaternal surname) has always held mystique for Chavez, along with its origin linked to the city of Babel, where legend says the peoples of the world were scattered and human speech fractured into many languages. “This project calls home and harmonizes all the voices I have summoned while in service to so many distinctive artists. Babilonia contains my vulnerability and power, joy and imperfection. She gives me a new creative center, a fresh universe to expand into.”

With fresh perspective and courage gained while grounded at home in the years following 2020, Chavez found guidance with producer Jeremy Little. Together they found a sonic, lyrical language toIf I Ever Think… resist melancholy, embrace the bittersweet and become, song by song, an arrival at wholeness and peace.