Halo Kitsch

Halo grew up on the fringe of suburbia with a big family in a little mobile home park. Before she’d even turned two, the piano in the living room caught her eye and she began to play every keyboard she could get her little fingers on. By the time she was 19, she had a written collection of over four dozen finished songs, and an iPhone with 100 voice memo recordings of every little spark of an idea. Three years into college, she couldn’t pretend she wanted a degree anymore and dropped out to chase music. Halo worked as a waitress, a bartender, and in a holiday photo booth all at the same time to save up enough for her first studio session.

Halo jokingly compares herself to a method actor; she lives firsthand through every experience she writes. Indeed her writing does tend to be extremely narrative. The difference is that instead of creating pain to write, she writes out of pain. Halo’s songs take back the power from every experience where her character fell victim. She emerges from emotional abuse, failure, mental manipulation, addiction, societal labels, romantic toxicity, and the like with the fiery rejuvenation of self discovery.

In Halo’s music, the protagonist is also the victim and the antagonist. Writing all of her material, Halo has begun expanding her creative circle, including collabs in the works with up-and-coming producer Ben Zelico, Ely Rise (Lady Gaga), Doug Schadt (Maggie Rogers), Jo Caleb (99 Souls) and others. She has caught the early attention of Spotify, with major playlist support on three New Music Fridays, Pop Rock, Indie Pop, Fresh Finds, Outliers, It’s a Bop, and press looks from Before the Data, Bedroom Pop, Ones to Watch and Wild Honey Pie.

With a sound and style that stirs up the raw energy of Florence and the Machine with the retro boho individuality of Sheryl Crow or Madonna’s “Ray of Light”, Halo’s an old soul stuck in the body of a pop fanatic who gives a f*ck and can’t stop singing about her exes.