She has a rich, soulful and passionate voice and always pours 100% into each and every performance, often taking requests from eager listeners.Ĭeleste performs for weddings, corporate, public and private events and has ongoing engagements with venues like Barrel & Board, Town & Country, Coomber Craft Wines, & many more. Her voice is a cross between Patsy Cline, Diana Krall, Karen Carpenter & Etta James. She performs what she refers to as "the soundtrack of our lives" covering artists from Stevie Nicks to Stevie Wonder, Billie Holiday to Bill Withers, John Denver to John Legend, Etta James to James Taylor, Nina Simone to Carly Simon, Amy Winehouse, Adele, George Ezra and so many more!Ĭeleste was classically trained at Chapman University as an opera singer and brings rich, clear, deep, soothing & sultry yet powerful contralto vocals to this vintage music. She performs a wide variety of easy listening classics from many artists with an impressive repertoire of over 450 songs from over 10 decades of music. "To Love a Man," her first post-album single, appeared in March 2022.Top 40 Adult Contemporary & Indie Recording Artist for Radio Charts NationwideĬeleste Barbier is a premier solo vocalist & recording artist located in Southern California, based out of North San Diego County. Additional singles continued to build anticipation for her debut album, Not Your Muse, which arrived in January 2021 and debuted at number one on the U.K. Early the following year, Celeste released her first charting single, the inspirational "Stop This Flame," and won the BRITs' first Rising Star award. The short set also included the Gotts-backed title track and "Summer" with rapper Jeshi. Years later, Celeste's single "Both Sides of the Moon" - featuring backing by Gotts Street Park ( Kali Uchis, Rejjie Snow) - landed on her 2019 EP Lately (Both Sides/Polydor). Smoky and lush, her songs distilled her varied influences while resembling the style of artists such as Alicia Keys, Adele, Erykah Badu, and Floetry. In 2017, she released "Daydreaming" from the three-track set The Milk & the Honey, which was issued on Lily Allen's Bank Holiday label. She made her live debut with that eclectic, genre-spanning blend, and things took off from there. Her personal poetry evolved into song and, by the time she was enrolled in college, she'd made the decision to pursue music.Īway from school, Celeste started jamming with friends, playing soul, funk, and jazz while covering the likes of Sly & the Family Stone, the Clash, the Specials, the Moody Blues, Alice Coltrane, Janis Joplin, Thelonious Monk, Ray Charles, and more.
Her father passed away when she was 16 and, years later when she happened upon his old vinyl collection, she immersed herself in the wealth. In the secular pop sphere, Celeste fell in love with Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, the Supremes, Destiny's Child, and Solange. Eventually, Celeste and her mother moved to Brighton, where daily church attendance helped develop her vocals while singing hymns. Surrounded by eclectic characters and unique experiences that informed her young life, she was also shaped by the struggles of being biracial in a homogenous town. Not long after she was born in California, the artist who performs simply as Celeste returned to Essex with her British mother. chart-topping full-length debut, Not Your Muse (2021). Emerging in the late 2010s, she issued her first official short-player, The Milk & the Honey (2017), before signing with the majors for another EP, Lately (2019), and her U.K. but raised in the U.K., soulful R&B vocalist Celeste Waite channels influences such as Aretha Franklin and Billie Holiday to craft languid, jazzy numbers that are elevated by her powerful voice and poetic lyrics.
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