El 

BIOGRAPHY
El has always had a love for singing, music that started in early childhood. Her mom an incredible singer, deeply influenced El with her beautiful voice.

El played in bands in the Connecticut/New York area including, Bwilde Battraxx, Amberrain and Johnny Plays with Matches. Some clubs included The Bitter End - New York City, EL and Gees, New London, The Grotto, New Haven, and many other venues throughout the area. She also performed in many venues in Florida as a guest artist as well as Los Angeles.

El was pulled on stage with Tower of Power to sing the background vocals for "Your still a young man" at a Wesleyan University Spring Fling.

Johnny Plays with Matches won the 106 WHCN-FM 1991 Connecticut's best top ten rock band award, for best original song called "Feed the Fire” which El co-wrote and performed. The song received airplay, in regular rotation, for two weeks on the station. Rock Fax Magazine, Nickel Studios and 106 WHCN-FM, who sponsored the contest, netted 300 entries with ten finalists.

While in Tampa "guest" singing with many different bands, her favorite, a show EL was featured as “Kashmir”, a guest artist for the band “Children of the Beat”, held at the Beacon Theatre in Orlando. The show was wild, with the audience dancing on top of speakers with her and EL dressed in a light blue plastic jacket, black lace cropped top and blue velvet hip huggers with a very long straight slick backed pony tail.

In Tampa as a solo artist, El began to write and record and produce her first CD. Then in 1998 she formed Bay Island Records and Bay Island Music Publishing (ASCAP).

She moved back to Connecticut in 1999 and joined the band Amberrain, then went solo a few months later releasing her first CD single in July, 1999.

The CD single "self titled-El has had a lot of attention and airplay. "My Inspiration" receiving most of the attention. "My Inspiration" truly was written from the heart.

She performed a showcase in February at the Millennium Music Conference 2000 in Harrisburg, PA, which drew a lot of attention to her music.

The CD-single song "My Inspiration" reached #2 on Billboardtalentnet radio. Twice El was listed in the top ten favorite artists on the site, the peak at #6, which was listed in the February 19th, 2000 issue of Billboard Magazine.

El lived in Los Angeles, Tampa and London, England before returning to Connecticut where she finished recording her CD release in late May 2005. Forbidden Love is a collaboration between EL and AleX Westerberg, Producer and owner of WM Records, Tacoma, Washington.

El is also an actress, artist and entertainer for the Trail of Terror in Wallingford, Connecticut. As well as being an actress she sang and performed as "Raven Mae" to entertain the crowd waiting to get in (2002). The Trail of Terror has raised and donated over 3 Million dollars, to assist the local community.

El was graciously invited to join a film group by Movie Director, Demian Lichtenstein (3000 Miles to Graceland) and became inspired to write the story for and release the music video for Forbidden Love. (April 29th, 2006) Director Bruce Snyder filmed the video, El co-produced it and also collaborated with Wayne Barneschi of the Trail of Terror where parts of Forbidden Love were filmed. This is the first in a series of Videos, music, photos, and journals entries to tell a tale about "Raven Mae" written and created by El.

EL  is currently getting ready to release  a new cd tuned to 444hz to create feel good frequencies.