PaviElle hails from St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood, growing up in a family steeped in music. As a devoted music connoisseur, her father introduced her to a wide variety of sounds, her uncle, George Young, played saxophone for Purple Haze, her mother played saxophone as well and her actor/playwright brother Ahanti Young is an accomplished percussionist and performs with her on the new record.
On her record, For Fear Not, she strayed only a couple miles from her old neighborhood, recording at St. Paul's Bellows studio with Casey O'Brien on bass and guitar, Ted Godbout on keys, Nick Dodd on drums, Bryan Highhill on trumpet and Tony Beaderstadt on trombone.
While the sound the group captured was vintage, PaviElle brings her own personal style and passionate energy to her singing, making for a fresh sound that's uniquely her own. She says she always has a way she wants her songs to swing, and it's this free-style emotion, in the scatting and vocalizing, that brings a millennial's heart-born, contemporary vision to a classic soul music sound.
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