Wacky-fun Timeline facts about the AE...

• Born in Burbank, California on December 11, 1979.
• 6 Months - Started playing keyboard songs.
• 6 1/2 Months - About two weeks later, started walking.
• Age 2 - Moved to Minnesota with parents and Hammond B3.
• Age 3 - Started ballet lessons. 
• Age 4 - Began violin lessons.
• Age 6 - Wrote first piano song.
• Age 7 - Began studying modern dance.
• Age 10 - Started alto saxophone.
• Age 11 - Decided she wanted to be a "Fly Girl" on the series, In Living Color.  Show was later cancelled.
• Age 12 - Began acoustic guitar. Started serious songwriting.
• Age 13 - Mastered alto saxophone.
• Age 14 - Began viola.
• Age 15 - Electric guitar.
• Age 16 - Accepted into Perpich Center for Arts Education.
• Still 16 - Started playing 5-string bass.
• Age 17 - Began playing live shows outside of school.
• Age 18 - Happily graduated from high school and moved out!
• Age 19 - Moved to Chicago.  Played bass in band with roommates.
• Age 20 - Moved back to Minneapolis.
• Age 21 - Began writing songs for first album.
• Age 22 - Started recording first CD.
• Age 23 - Began playing more acoustic shows around Minneapolis.
• Age 24 - Finished recording and CD design.
• Age 25 - Started Artcele, and Indie record label.  Released first CD, From the Padded Cell of Suburbia.  Coined the term "Electracousticlash" for the style of her favorite song off the album, "Who's Keeping Score".
• Age 26 - Began writing and recording second CD... playing Electracousticlash live shows.

A LITTLE BIT More ABOUT APRYL ELECTRA...

Apryl Electra is a singer-songwriter and musician who began playing piano at the age of six months and started composing music at the age of six years. She was playing piano before she started walking and talking amd writes all of her original material on guitar, piano and/or bass and does her own drum and bass programming. This has led to the creation of her own style: Electracousticlash, a mix of classically influenced piano, other acoutic instruments and electro-IDM.

Apryl Electra's first CD, From The Padded Cell of Suburbia (ASCAP), is a mix of rock ballads that tell of heartache to her Electracousticlash songs that speak of strength and empowerment. This collection of 14 extrememly well-written songs is long awaited: the earliest of the songs "Kiss The Wind" was written by Apryl Electra during her senior year in high school at the age of 17.

In July of 2005 Apryl Electra founded Artcele Records. Now, along with continuing to write, Apryl E. is recording her second CD on her own which is completely in the Electracousticlash style. AE is also currently playing as many shows as she can around the Twin Cities. She hopes to tour in the near future.

What people are saying about Apryl Electra...

“Like her look, Electra's music is powerful, melodic, and full of strange, unexpected harmonies. The sound dances between electronic and singer-songwriter.”
-Laurie Koh, Girlfriends Magazine

“Based on her appearance --- which is hard to ignore, given the '70s mirror shades, Day-Glo leggings, and two-toned neo-mullet --- you might assume that Apryl Electra is some electro-clash warrior, thriving on gender-bending and shock tactics. And you'd be mostly wrong. The local singer's debut album From the Padded Cell of Suburbia, a collection of piano-driven rock songs, goes down smoother, like a less despondent Tori Amos. But as soon as "Who's Keeping Score" shows up with the thump of a mechanical kick drum, it's apparent that this is a girl who knows how to party. I mean, just look at her.”
-Lindsay Thomas, City Pages, citypages.com

“She has a great voice and is hyperactively entertaining in an enjoyable way.”
-David de Young, howwastheshow.com

“Fearless high minded modern pop. Joyfully blending light and dark with gravity defying chops and a siren's voice. Watch out!”
-Her Vanished Grace

“A magnificent combination of energy, edge and prodigious talent; Apryl Electra has a rich, robust voice and songwriting skills far beyond her years.”
-Artcele Records

“One of the best songwriters in the Twin Cities.”
--Kat "Pony" Smith, keys/lead guitar for the Melismatics and former bassist for Mark Mallman