Stella Burns

Stella Burns is the project and nom-de-plume of singer-songwriter and musician, Gianluca Maria Sorace.

Sorace is the front-man with Hollowblue, who have recorded three albums, ‘What You Left Behind’ (2004), ‘Stars are Crashing in My Backyard’ (2008) and ‘Wild Nights, Quiet Dreams’ (2009), of richly-textured, strings-laden pop.

Stella Burns maintains Sorace’s swooning, gorgeous vocals, which have drawn him comparisons by ‘Uncut’ with Billy Mackenzie, but is otherwise a very different act. Much starker and largely acoustic in tone, it finds Sorace experimenting with a dozen different instruments including banjo, mandolin, cello, harmonica and trumpets. As befits the “space cowboy” character whom he has based Stella Burns around, it is with its scorched, windswept soundscapes like a stripped-down and lo-fi Ennio Morricone or Calexico.

Stella Burns’s debut album, ‘Stella Burns Loves You’, which was funded by PledgeMusic, was released on the small Italian label Twelve Records in 2014.

The new Stella Burns' album "Jukebox Songs" is going to be released by Love and Thunder Records on September 13th 2016.
Stella Burns again creates his own acoustic sound playing this time many songs by others.. all with banjo, acoustic and slide guitars, piano and drums.