Biography
When it comes to Olivia Sebastianelli, nothing is quite as it seems. She may appear to be all English rose with an acute instinct for a chorus, but peel back the layers and you’ll find a Converse clad, South London girl of Italian descent with a love of tattoos, poetry and punk.
With influences including Elvis Costello, Kate Bush, John Cooper Clarke and Tim Burton, Sebastianelli’s songwriting is evocative, provocative pop with a twist. It’s led by instinctual, captivating choruses and massive melodies – but still waters run deep. This is songwriting that has something to say, and says it ...
When it comes to Olivia Sebastianelli, nothing is quite as it seems. She may appear to be all English rose with an acute instinct for a chorus, but peel back the layers and you’ll find a Converse clad, South London girl of Italian descent with a love of tattoos, poetry and punk.
With influences including Elvis Costello, Kate Bush, John Cooper Clarke and Tim Burton, Sebastianelli’s songwriting is evocative, provocative pop with a twist. It’s led by instinctual, captivating choruses and massive melodies – but still waters run deep. This is songwriting that has something to say, and says it beautifully, with a delicacy rarely found within such obviously killer pop tunes. “First and foremost I consider myself a storyteller,” says Olivia. “I want someone somewhere to listen to one of my songs and to say to themselves, ‘I know how this feels. I’m not alone in this’. I write pop music, pure and simple, but pop music that I think can really move and inspire.”
Olivia regularly writes with award-winning, mega-writers Biff Stannard, Steve Booker and Ed Druit but is also finding friends amongst the new breed of writers from Pete Hammerton, Max Wolfgang and Luke Fitton.