Kelly Zullo
Born in Stillwater, NY Kelly Zullo started playing music at the early age of 12. Although she was not allowed by the 3rd grade music teacher to take recorder lessons, she found her way to private introspection with guitar, vocals, saxophone, audio engineering, drums, bass, and songwriting. Upon turning 18, she fled her hometown for Nashville TN, being a then country music enthusiast.
A few years in Nashville brought Kelly close to signing a production/ label deal for which she opted out to record her sound on her own. Unfortunately this proved not helpful, as she spent 3 years recording and ended up broke and burned out musically. Still pushing for resurgence beyond the so called let down of stardom, in 2001 Kelly released 'Thin Line'. The album got reasonable reviews from magazines like Performing Songwriter and Womanrock, and sold a few thousand copies around the southeast on a tour of small venues.
46 jobs in between music, Kelly took time to live life after the first independent try and travelled/ worked bike messengering in NYC, waiting tables, office work, modeling, handing out flyers... at which each job rarely lasted more than 2-6 months. Unable to sit still as a person who had quit music, in 2006 she returned to music and released 'A Case of Truce'.
It is now June 2008, and the latest album, 'Four Lies and forty Criminals', is finally the record claimed as sounding like the concert itself. Recorded with a mic and a guitar, with the exception of one studio track, there was no editing or fixing anything. The energy and performance had to be captured as one. The upbeat tracks are in your face and emotionally drenched while the quiter takes range from the silly to laid back, as on 'The High Way', which is about falling for love instead of the freedom of life. 'Where We're Hiding', the only studio track, is an upbeat rock and mock the human condition of acting other than we really are, and agreeing to live in a less desirable life than we could achieve. The cd closes with a song called 'Sing You To Sleep', which was an impromptu take that came from nowhere but was seemingly magical. You can obtain a copy of this new cd by ordering via the "buy it now" button @
www.kellyzullomusic.com