
Nellie Bell - doing good business - 

NELLIE BELL
Strategy : inside & OUT

Nellie Bell grew up in Australia but her family’s roots lie off the coast of North Africa on the small island of Malta. The mixture of influences that create that island’s culture also informs Nellie’s music. She loves to make music that communicates quickly, is accessible and melodic, but her songs  also display a remarkable originality, an unexpected tendency to take the listener down new and exotic pathways. Nellie is a composer and an accomplished pianist and singer.

“I write music to heal myself. Sometimes I have painful experiences that make me write to express my truth. It’s what lies deep deep down inside that I find hard to get out into words when I speak. Through music, I channel something that makes me feel happy and brings my spark back! I also write a lot about love and what it means, and how there are so many layers to it and so many different kinds of love. I also realise now that I write about love to help me love myself more.”
 
“I recently got a Tattoo, which symbolizes change and transformation, I chose to put it on my heart. It also represents commitment to music for life and freedom."

Nellie’s focus has been on composing and recording her music, but she has also been exploring new ways to manage the business side of things as the music industry shifts and narrows, as well developing new ways of working so that doing good business is good business.

Earlier this year, Nellie worked with her team to innovate a new business model to raise private investment, enabling her to record, mix and master her album on her own terms. She set up Nellie Bell Ltd, a company which will enable her to make and share music her way.  The company structure allows her to retain publishing and recording rights and have more control over how she develops her career.  And, by integrating her three passions of music, young people and empowering women, she is building a new kind of company where people, profit and place have equal standing. 
 
As well as composing and performing, Nellie has 13 years’ experience working with young people in schools and informal settings.  Nellie aims to nurture emerging talent as well as support young people and the wider community to reach their full potential. She is exploring a number of initiatives and partnerships to assess how best to invest in activities that will do both, within the business and community setting, ensuring there are pathways and connections throughout.  Current discussions include:	
		
Nellie Bell Project 1	A Moment to Yourself©

 A campaign partnership with Sennheiser, Momentum Blue Tooth Wireless Headphones,  called “A moment to yourself”. Using this campaign and the headphones to promote consciousness awareness through listening and breathing and perform a live gig and to promote the new music video.."You Are Real". Which is about waking up to a new reality. 
				


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