Elle Barbara

Elle Barbara is an avant-garde singer-songwriter, recording artist, experimental theatre director, video director, performer, community worker, and pinup, based in Montreal, Quebec. Her music alternately combines elements of dance, disco, sophisti-pop, synth-pop, prog, jazz, and glam, with an interest in library music, orchestral music, and psychedelic soul. She has been an underground fixture in her native Montreal for more than a decade. A lover of the odd, obscure, and overlooked elements in pop music, Elle Barbara finds inspiration in unexpected sources, like off-the-radar acts Su Tissue, Francis Bebey, Martin Newell, and Alain Kan, in addition to mainstream luminaries such as Madonna, Marvin Gaye, David Bowie, and Mary J. Blige.