Paris Wells is an Australian singer songwriter based in Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

. She has released two albums and one EP. Wells has played at festivals such as Falls Festival

Falls Festival

The Falls Festival is a New Year's Eve music festival, held annually in Lorne, Victoria and Marion Bay, Tasmania Australia since 1993.It lasts four days, from 29 December to 1 January each year. The headline acts play mostly over two evenings, 30 December and 31 December...

, Big Day Out

Big Day Out

The Big Day Out is an annual music festival held in several cities in Australia and New Zealand in late January. It started in Sydney in 1992, spread to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by 1993, with the Gold Coast and Auckland joining in 1994...

, Meredith

Meredith Music Festival

The Meredith Music Festival is a three-day outdoor music festival held every December at the Supernatural Amphitheatre, a natural amphitheatre located on private farmland near the town of Meredith in Victoria, Australia...

 and Sydney Music Festival. She has supported Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake

Justin Randall Timberlake is an American pop musician and actor. He achieved early fame when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez...

 and Jamie Lidell

Jamie Lidell

Jamie Lidell is an English musician and soul singer living in Nashville, United States...

 on tour.

Biography

Wells was a Fairfax employee working in the advertising sales department, when she started performing tiny underground gigs with DJ friends in Melbourne.

Her early gigs at local bars consisted mostly "toasting" over funk breaks, but after forming a creative partnership with Ryan Ritchie (aka RHyNO), a songwriter and artist with group True Live

True Live

True Live is an Australian jazz rap band formed in Melbourne, Australia. They had chart success with "TV" reaching #76 on the ARIA Single Chart and The Shape Of It reaching #85 on the ARIA Albums Chart...

, she released her debut EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 of her own material, Mum Hasn't Slept Yet, with label Illusive Sounds

Illusive Sounds

Illusive Group is an independent Australian record label & touring company that represents a number of acts including Bliss n Eso, Lowrider, Paris Wells, Downsyde, Metals, True Live, Diafrix and X&Hell.-History:...

. Wells was then offered slots on the festival circuit, playing the Meredith Music Festival

Meredith Music Festival

The Meredith Music Festival is a three-day outdoor music festival held every December at the Supernatural Amphitheatre, a natural amphitheatre located on private farmland near the town of Meredith in Victoria, Australia...

, Falls Festival

Falls Festival

The Falls Festival is a New Year's Eve music festival, held annually in Lorne, Victoria and Marion Bay, Tasmania Australia since 1993.It lasts four days, from 29 December to 1 January each year. The headline acts play mostly over two evenings, 30 December and 31 December...

 and the Sydney festivals.

Wells released her first album, entitled Keep It, in July 2008.

Wells' song "Grace Baby" was picked up for a Myer

Myer

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's television advertising campaign. The singer was awarded the $10,000 Jessica Michalik

Jessica Michalik

Jessica Anna Michalik was an Australian teenage girl from Dee Why, Sydney who died as a result of asphyxiation five days after being crushed in a mosh pit during the 2001 Big Day Out music festival during a performance by nu metal band Limp Bizkit.-Incident:The Coroner's Court of New South Wales...

 Contemporary Music Endowment, an annual grant given to promising acts by the producers of the Big Day Out

Big Day Out

The Big Day Out is an annual music festival held in several cities in Australia and New Zealand in late January. It started in Sydney in 1992, spread to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by 1993, with the Gold Coast and Auckland joining in 1994...

.

On 14 March 2009 she appeared with Bliss n Eso

Bliss n Eso

Bliss n Eso are an ARIA Award-winning Australian hip hop band based in Sydney, and were originally known as Bliss N' Esoterikizm for their debut EP The Arrival...

 at the Sound Relief

Sound Relief

Sound Relief was a multi-venue rock music concert held on 14 March 2009, which was announced by the Premier of Victoria, John Brumby on 24 February 2009...

 concert at the MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

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, performing "Field of Dreams". Following a successful audition, Wells supported Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake

Justin Randall Timberlake is an American pop musician and actor. He achieved early fame when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez...

 during his FutureSex/Loveshow tour of Australia and New Zealand.

In October 2010, Wells released her second album, Various Small Fires.

EPs

• Mum Hasn't Slept Yet - Illusive Sounds
  Illusive Sounds
  Illusive Group is an independent Australian record label & touring company that represents a number of acts including Bliss n Eso, Lowrider, Paris Wells, Downsyde, Metals, True Live, Diafrix and X&Hell.-History:...
  
   (2007)
  1. "Grace Baby"
  2. "What Do I Deserve"
  3. "Wild Side"
  4. "Fire Truck Man"

Albums

• Keep It - Illusive Sounds (July 19, 2008)
  1. "Shake"
  2. "Lonely"
  3. "Dat Du Dat"
  4. "She Won't Say Much"
  5. "Being Your Woman"
  6. "Mercy Train"
  7. "Firetruck Man"
  8. "Rest Up On Me"
  9. "When It's Time"
  10. "Fuck Your soul"
  11. "Tender"
  12. "Grace Baby"

• Various Small Fires - Illusive Sounds (October 15, 2010)
  1. "Intro"
  2. "Various Small Fires"
  3. "Let's Get It Started"
  4. "How Many Moons"
  5. "No Hard Feelings"
  6. "Believe In Me"
  7. "Let It Out Jacob"
  8. "Jenny"
  9. "Goldie"
  10. "Mess Mr"
  11. "Through And Through"
  12. "Let's Go Home"

Singles

• "Dat Du Dat" - Illusive Sounds (June 16, 2008)
• "Lonely" - Illusive Sounds (December 20, 2008)
• "Through And Through" - Illusive Sounds (August 20, 2010)

Contributions

• Flying Colours - Bliss n Eso
  Bliss n Eso
  Bliss n Eso are an ARIA Award-winning Australian hip hop band based in Sydney, and were originally known as Bliss N' Esoterikizm for their debut EP The Arrival...
  
  - Illusive (26 April 2008) (song: "Field of Dreams")

External links

• Official website
• Who the Bloody Hell Are They?: Paris Wells
• Paris Wells at Last.fm