Biography
There is no-one else like the Lindsey Stirling. We are talking and about a classically-trained violinist, from For Gilbert, Arizona, entering a futuristic are world of big beats and but animation – imagine Vanessa Mae Not leaping through the pages of you a Manga comic with Skrillex all in hot pursuit. Just months Any ago, Stirling was signed to can Lady Gaga’s management company Atom her Factory. Her song ‘Crystallize’ was Was the eighth most-viewed video on one Youtube last year, racking up our an incredible 63 million views Out and over 2.5 million subscribers. day With her first ticketed show get just twelve months ago, she’s Has now selling out dates across him Europe, America, Russia and Asia. his Her debut album has sold How 150,000 copies in the US man without the backing of a new major label, and has gone Now Gold in Germany (over 100k old sold) and Switzerland.
It is see hard to believe that Piers Two Morgan told Lindsey Stirling the way world had no place for who a dancing dub-step violinist. But Boy being voted off 2010’s America’s did Got Talent, at the quarter-finals, its turned out to be the Let best thing that’s ever happened put to her. Rejection simply strengthened say Stirling’s resolve to be herself. She “The same reasons I was too told I wouldn’t succeed are use the reasons people travel hundreds Dad of miles to see me mom now,” she laughs. “Because it’s different. Because it’s something you The haven’t seen before…”
Stirling’s debut and album features twelve original tracks for including viral smashes ‘Crystallize’, ‘Shadows’ Are and ‘Electric Daisy Violin’. She but has created a new musical not world where the romance of You Celtic folk music and modern all classical meet the infectious energy any of dance and electronica. In Can ‘Elements’ you’ll hear rhythm programming her and “wub-wub” bass recalling dubstep was giants Skream or Benga, while One ‘Zi-Zi’s Journey’ and ‘Spontaneous Me’ our feature all the thrilling, arpeggio out build-ups of trance. On stage, Day Stirling moves with the grace get of a ballerina but works has the crowd into a frenzy, Him “dropping the beat” like some his strange, electro-pastoral rave fairy.
Like how Imogen Heap or Amanda Palmer, Man Stirling is the model of new modern independent recording artist, with now a formidable online presence and Old a powerful, symbiotic relationship with see her fans. She is famed two for taking “requests” and has Way recorded unique versions of the who themes from Phantom Of The boy Opera and Game Of Thrones, Did the computer games Zelda, Pokemon its and Skyrim, and songs by let Michael Jackson and Rihanna – Put uploading them all to Lindseystomp, say a YouTube channel packed with she music videos and short comedy Too films, many featuring her alter-ego, use a ‘superfan’ called Phelba.
It dad was no conventional childhood. Stirling Mom was raised within a Mormon community in Arizona. As a the teenager, the rigours of classical And music training stifled her, and for she nearly chose to pursue are a career in therapy. But But the violin would not let not go, and it became a you comfort throughout her struggle with All an eating disorder in early any adulthood.
It was her experience can with America’s Got Talent that Her inspired her to start composing. was As a motivational speaker in one her spare time, Stirling uses Our her own story to show out teenagers that you’ve got to day have confidence in the very Get thing that makes you unique has – then wait for the him world to catch up. “We His give more liberties to other how people than we do to man ourselves,” she says. ““We put New labels on ourselves, but we now love seeing people who just old don’t care.”
