Nite Jewel

Nite Jewel
Birth name Ramona Gonzalez
Origin Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres Lo-fi, alternative dance, electronic
Occupation(s) Composer, singer-songwriter, multimedia artist
Instruments Vocals, keyboards
Years active 2008–present
Labels Human Ear Music, Gloriette, No Pain in Pop, Italians Do It Better, Secretly Canadian
Associated acts Dam-Funk, The Samps, Julia Holter
Website nitejewel.com, myspace.com/nitejewel

Nite Jewel is the alias of Ramona Gonzalez, singer/songwriter from Los Angeles, California.

Biography

Ramona Gonzalez began as Nite Jewel in 2008 as the result of her juggling music with undergraduate studies.[1] She cites artists such as Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey as her musical inspirations.[2] With assistance from her husband, Cole M. Greif-Neill, she created songs on a portable eight-track cassette recorder.[3] She stated that "moments of ecstasy, emotion, and hardship" were her inspiration for those recordings.[4] Gonzalez is the niece of the English soccer commentator Clive Tyldesley, affectionately parodying his commentary style on the song 'Clive'.

Soon after starting her MySpace music page, her song, "Suburbia" was selected to be in Noah Baumbach's film Greenberg.[4] Within a year she was touring European festivals.[1] Her music draws comparison to Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam.[5] Nite Jewel describes herself more as "liquid cool" citing English electronic music duo Autechre as a major musical influence.[6]

Ramona Gonzalez has a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Occidental College.[7] She is also a multimedia artist and has exhibited a number of video and sound installation pieces in the L.A area, one of which was entitled The Question Concerning Technology.[5]

December 6, 2011, Nite Jewel released her single, "She's Always Watching You".[8]
On March 6, 2012, Ramona released her second album (and debut release for SC), "One Second of Love".[9] Secretly Canadian will reissue Nite Jewel's first album, Good Evening, in the fall of 2012.

Since releasing her debut album for Secretly Canadian, Nite Jewel has toured both North America and Europe. Performances included a date a Midi Festival and a forthcoming show at Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest! In addition to playing her original music, Ramona performed Kraftwerks's Computer World in Los Angeles' Krautrock Classics on June 1, 2012. Later that summer, she traveled to New York City to perform in the same event at Le Poisson Rouge.[10][11]

On April 29, 2012, Nite Jewel performed at the Brandeis University Springfest.[12]

Discography

Collaborations

References

  1. 1 2 Breaking: Nite Jewel, www.rollingstone.com
  2. ↑ "Nite Jewel on Her New Album, Humanizing Electronic Music, and Working on Her Image -- Vulture". Vulture.com. Sunderman, Eric. 08-03-12. Retrieved 07-03-14. Check date values in: |access-date=, |date= (help)
  3. ↑ Bring in Da Kraut Funk: Nite Jewel Performs Tomorrow for Re:Play L.A., laweekly.com
  4. 1 2 Philosophy of Music, www.oxy.edu
  5. 1 2 Nite Jewel (No 614), www.guardian.co.uk
  6. ↑ wNew Rock Review: Nite Jewel, wnew.radio.com
  7. ↑ All Nite Jewel, hannesgrassegger.twoday.net
  8. ↑ Nite Jewel, signed to independent record label [http://secretlycanadian.com/artist.php?name=nitejewel Secretly Canadian in 2011. la.thedelimagazine.com
  9. ↑ New Album: Nite Jewel – One Second of Love at Pretty Much Amazing, prettymuchamazing.com
  10. ↑ L.A. TACO. "Krautrock Classics: Nite Jewel & Peanut Butter Wolf To Perform Kraftwerk's Computer World ~ L.A. TACO". L.A. TACO.
  11. ↑ http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/3540
  12. ↑ Nite Jewel rounds out 2012 Springfest lineup - The Arts - The Justice - Brandeis University, thejustice.org
  13. ↑ Nite Jewelia - Julia Holter & Nite Jewel, soundcloud.com
  14. ↑ Nite Funk - Am I Gonna Make It, www.thatsdeck.com
  15. ↑ Heart Shaped EP (w/ Nite Jewel), soundcloud.com
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