Ella Ronen
Ella Ronen | |
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.jpg) Ronen, 2021 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 25 November 1986 Neve Monosson, Israel |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, Poet |
| Years active | 2013–present |
Ella Ronen (born November 25, 1986) is a singer-songwriter, musician, composer, songwriter, producer and social activist. She was born in Israel, to a Hungarian mother and an Iranian father.
Biography[edit]
Ronen was born in 1986 in Neve Monosson. She studied composition and songwriting at Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. She also completed a bachelor's degree in French and English literature at the University of Lausanne and a master's degree in English literature at Tel Aviv University.
Career[edit]
As a child, Ronen studied classical music and sight-reading at the Israeli Conservatory for Music. Later on, during her studies at Rimon, she began performing with a band under her name. Israeli musician Ariel Horowitz assisted as artistic advisor.
In 2011 she moved to Switzerland. In 2013 she participated in “The Voice of Switzerland". Ronen's audition video was the most watched on the program.[1] She then formed a band with local musicians and began performing in Switzerland. Following her participation on The Voice, she was signed to the Swiss indie label Sophie Records and in 2014 released her debut album "Mirror Maze". The single ‘Please’ has been widely played on radio stations in Switzerland, Germany and Israel. The song also appeared in a global Jeep commercial.[2] In the same year she was invited to be the opening show of the Icelandic singer Emiliana Torini in Zurich.[3]
In 2015 she performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival[4] and at the Waves Festival (GR). That same year she moved back to Israel and performed throughout the country.
In 2018, she participated in the Musician's Accelerator Program "Synthesizer" and released her second and first album in the Hebrew language "Toska" (from Russian: longing for something that does not exist). The final performance of the "Army Song" project was played a lot on radio stations around the country and entered the playlist of Kan 88.[5]
In 2019, she performed as part of the "Menashe Forests" festival alongside Assaf Amdursky, Abigail Kovari, and others.[6]
In February 2020, the first single "Welcome to the Universe" was released from her third album Motherland which was released in July 2021. The song was played on radio stations and received excellent reviews. Another single called "Bubble" was released in May 2020 and was also played on radio stations around the country. In March 2021 she released a third single from the same album, "Housebroken". The song entered the playlist of Kan 88.[7]
At the end of 2020, Ronen released a cover version of Whitney Houston's song: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).[8]
The song ‘Either-Or’ (oh-oh) was released as part of the "Melodies for an Emergency" project which consists entirely of songs written during the first closure during the Corona period. In the partnership project, among others, Sapir Wallach, Abigail Kovari, Flora and others.
In July 2021 Ronen released her third album, ‘Motherland’, a concept album that deals with belonging, home and foreignness, which received glowing reviews in both Switzerland and Israel. On the same month her Zurich-based band and her performed at the official Zurich openair festival, Stadtsommer.[9]
Ronen's song ‘Either-Or’ (oh-oh) was released as part of the "Melodies for an Emergency" project which consists entirely of songs written during the first closure of the Corona period. The collaborative project features Sapir Wallach, Abigail Kovari, Flora and others.
In July 2021 Ronen released her third album, ‘Motherland’, a concept album that deals with belonging, home and foreignness, which received glowing reviews in both Switzerland [10] and Israel [11]
The single “The Old Order" (Haseder Hayashan) from the album "Toska" was part of the soundtrack of the #MeToo revolution in Israel[12] That same year she returned to Switzerland and formed a feminist music collective called the Mino Collective, in collaboration with the American-Swiss musician Brandy Butler and musician and activist Sarah Palin.[13] The collective unites the local music community and initiates platforms for equal representation in the music industry for women and other underprivileged groups. In January 2022 Ronen recorded her next album, produced by Sam Cohen, at his studio in Upstate New York.
Social - Feminist Activism[edit]
The single “The Old Order" (Haseder Hayashan) from the album "Toska" was part of the soundtrack of the #MeToo revolution in Israel. That same year she returned to Switzerland and formed a feminist music collective called the Mino Collective, in collaboration with the American-Swiss musician Brandy Butler and musician and activist Sarah Palin. The collective unites the local music community and initiates platforms for equal representation in the music industry for women and other underprivileged groups. In 2019 the collective produced “Ode to the Patriarchy - An Evening of Misogynist Song” in Zurich, and Ronen initiated, produced and participated in the evening "If this is love" in Tel Aviv.
In 2020, she published a statement in Haaretz following her participation in Sharon Spurer's investigation and the hottest place in hell where she talks candidly about her the assault she underwent at 16, the process of realization and healing, and the decision to speak openly about the case. The text deals with fear and silence.[14]
Discography[edit]
- 2014 - Mirror Maze
- 2018 - Tosca
- 2021 - Motherland
References[edit]
- ↑ "Ella Enchanted" Jerusalem Post, Jacob Ryan, September 9th, 2014
- ↑ Jeep Commercial Sputnik Publishing
- ↑ Plaza Club, Zurich
- ↑ [1] Une jeune femme fait vivre la musique aux festivaliers sourds] 24 heures, Raphaël Delessert, 21.7.2014
- ↑ Kan 88 Editor's Picks, 19.6.18
- ↑ Recommendations for Menashe Forest Festival Time Out, 2019
- ↑ Editor's Picks Kan 88, 2021
- ↑ Review of 'I Wanna Dance with Somebody' Oneg Shabbat Music Blog
- ↑ Ella Ronen at Stadtsommer Zurich City, 2021
- ↑ Motherland Album Review on NZZ am Sonntag Frank Heer, 24.11.21
- ↑ Motherland Album Review and Interview with Ronen, Maariv Online Yaakov Bar On, 10.08.21
- ↑ #MeToo has Arrived to Israeli Music, Haaretz Ben Shalev, 07.11.18.
- ↑ Artist Collective Launches Cinepop Project, Swiss Info 11.04.2019
- ↑ It Happened to Me: Musician Ella Ronen Writes about the Assault by Roi Chicky Arad, Haaretz Ella Ronen, 11.9.20
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