About
Jessye
Jessye DeSilva seamlessly blends theatrical pop elements with traditional folk and roots music to form her piano-driven alt-americana sound.
Boston-based singer-songwriter Jessye DeSilva has been releasing music and touring nationally since 2019, earning praise from No Depression, Rolling Stone, and The Boot. Known for blending Americana roots with expansive, genre-defying songwriting, she has shared stages with Lisa Loeb, Adeem the Artist, and Brian Dunne, performed at AmericanaFest, and collaborated with artists including Jake Blount and Ellen Angelico.
She infuses hope into songs about religious alienation, mental health struggles, and societal injustice to create a uniquely queer and unholy ruckus. Jessye’s forthcoming album Glitter Up the Dark was produced by Aaron Lee Tasjan and incorporates Eighties pop and Nineties alternative flourishes to the stately Americana and country-rock sounds of 2023’s Renovations and 2022 debut Landscapes, which earned her a nomination for Americana Artist of the Year at the 2022 Boston Music Awards.
No Depression says “Comparisons to Elton John and Brandi Carlile are easy — DeSilva clearly takes a page from these idols, anchoring [her] songs in pop melody juggernauts, gauzy textures, and vocal bravado.” Nashville Scene named her a 2023 Artist To Watch, saying “DeSilva could inject new life into a genre that could definitely use a little more pretzel logic.”
About Glitter Up the Dark
“Aaron and I came up with the idea to write an album that would center the idea of joy, in a broad sense,” says DeSilva. “Specifically, the joy of marginalized communities, queer and trans communities, and how that joy is something really powerful as a tool for resistance but also something we need for survival, and something we need to fiercely protect. That doesn’t mean every song is joyful, which speaks to the nuance of what joy means and how joy is something you have to fight and work for. Standing strong in the sense of yourself in spite of the world fighting you on that is a part of joy.”
