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At once sweet and sassy, celebrating reckless behavior with a charmed wink." -Time Out NY

Sweet Soubrette plays the ukulele, but she's no novelty act; this sultry songwriter sings about love (mainly the doomed kind) with wit, depth, and charm. With a sound that brings to mind artists like Regina Spektor and the Magnetic Fields, her songs are wickedly captivating--playful, tender, and wry.

Sweet Soubrette is New York native Ellia Bisker, whose musical influences range from early popular song, musical theatre, and blues, to folk icons like Leonard Cohen, to contemporary artists like PJ Harvey. Some of her songs evoke alt-folk artists like Joanna Newsom or Feist; others are reminiscent of classic Tin Pan Alley numbers. What they all share is a single sensibility: as her song "Suckerpunch" asserts, "There's nothing more romantic than a doomed romance." Bust Magazine has described her as "Brooklyn's fishnet-clad femme fatale," and it can't be denied that her songs are dangerously seductive.