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Fifteen Year-old Pop Prodigy, Cecilia Gault, Releases Exquisite Debut

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Fifteen year-old pop prodigy, Cecilia Gault, releases exquisite debut EP, Beast, a sassy,
stylish, and sage commentary on love relationships and being a young girl coming up in
a cosmopolitan city.

Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, and published social justice writer,
Cecilia Gault is just 15 years old, but she is already making a profound impression in
the entertainment business. Cecilia has been praised by New York Times music critic
Vivien Schweitzer, and shared the stage with icons such as Patti Smith and Marshall
Crenshaw. As an actress, shes appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and How
to Make It in America, and on stage in Opera Omnias Giasone. Now, she releases her
masterful debut EP, Beast, a sassy, stylish, and sage commentary on love relationships
and being a young girl coming up in a cosmopolitan city. I feel like being a young girl
in New York City you have to be a beast to survive, Cecilia says.

Beast is a bold, euphoric, and profound release. Musically, it traverses alt-rock, urban,
EDM, hints of jazz and blues, and sleek modern pop. Cecilia counts as influences Bob
Dylan, Lykke Li, Adele, James Blake, Tom Odell, The 1975, FKA Twigs, Banks, and The
Neighbourhood. Her EP features a song cycle that begins with the dizzy joy of newfound
love and chronicles the relationships demise and the mourning of love lost. Beast also,
as mentioned, explores with panache what it means to be a young girl growing up in
the concrete jungle of New York City.

The EPs single, Red Mustang, is smoky and haunting, an infectious mix of smoldering
vocals and playful cultural commentary. I had a chance to spend a day with a super
model, and I wrote that song imagining what it was like to have everything at your
fingertips, Cecilia says. Its definitely a celebratory, girl power song. The songs
accompanying video perfectly encapsulates the songs perspective by integrating quirky
humor into luxury lifestyle imagery. Red Mustang is revisited later on the EP as a
transcendent dub. Elsewhere Cecilia covers euphoric dancey pop (Velocity) and
mesmerizing slow-burn ballads (Pills and Raining).

Cecilia wrote the songs herself and plays piano on the album. Shes also an astounding
vocalist, with an expansive range, sizzling nuanced phrasing, and a sophisticatedly
accessible melodic sense.

Cecilia describes her background as being a product of diversity and mixed-cultures in
love and harmony. Growing up in a bicultural householdIrish and Japaneseshe was
exposed to a diverse array of traditions and this openness also informed the music she
was exposed to. Cecilia enjoyed attending operas and pop-rock concerts with her
parents. At the young age of 7, her parents signed her up for singing lessons with the
hopes that music would ease her out of being so shy. At the same time, she began
playing piano. By 11, she began writing songs. Currently, Cecilia is a junior at a
Manhattan performing arts school, juggling academics with her professional music
career.

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