"Simone White has a voice like ether. It's sweetly airy and hypnotic. Hearing it can pull you under to a strangely beautiful, glittering world where nothing seems real." - NPR
Born in Hawaii, in a family of artists. Her mother was a folk singer and painter, her father a sculptor, her grandmother a burlesque performer, her grandfather a poet, her aunt wrote pop songs in the 50s.
Simone White has lived in Los Angeles, Eugene, Seattle and London and worked as a writer, actor and photographer but it wasn't until she moved to NYC in 2000 did she start recording and performing her music onstage.
Simone White has released seven albums (I am the Man, Yakiimo, Silver Silver, Three Versions with Kassem Mosse (EP) on the British label Honest Jon's; (Letter to the Last Generation, Genuine Fake, The Sincere Recording Co. Presents) self released. She has been a featured vocalist and featured vocalist / songwriter on a number of collaborations (Reinier Zonneveld, Fol Chen, Dive Index, The Wedding Present, The Happening).
She has had several songs featured in film and tv, notably- an award winning world wide television campaign for the Audi R8 and an Omega watch ad featuring Nicole Kidman.
She has toured with and opened for Little Dragon, Victoria Williams, Mark Eitzel, Andrew Bird, Nouvelle Vague, Thao, The Honest Jon's Chop Up with Damon Albarn, John C Reilly & Friends and others.
Simone White currently lives in NYC.
"Silver Silver is...an album of cathartic intimacy, built around electronic textures and sparse percussion, with White's gently yielding, half-spoken vocals pitched, pleasingly, equidistant between Laurie Anderson and Joni Mitchell." -Four star review, MOJO
"Soft-voiced L.A. musician Simone White is the only singer-songwriter signed to Damon Albarn's eclectic Honest Jon's label, and her singular talents are evident on her haunting latest album, Silver Silver. […] the lean-in-to-listen compositions is what makes her performances so captivating."
- TIME OUT NEW YORK
"The beguiling Los Angeles-based singer Simone White is known as much for her whispered vocals as for her smart songwriting."
-THE HUFFINGTON POST
"White's voice is a delicate instrument, more traditional-sounding than Joanna Newsom's but with a similar ability to interpret lyrics with deceptive and revealing ease. The arrangements she favors on record are of the organic, earthy variety, like vintage Lanois..." -LA WEEKLY
Simone White discography:
The Sincere Recording Co Presents (album, self-release (SW), 2003)
I Am the Man (album, Honest Jon's, 2007)
Yakiimo (album, Honest Jon's, 2009)
Silver Silver (album, Honest Jon's 2012)
Kassem Mosse/Simone White "Three Versions" (EP remix, Honest Jon's 2015)
Christmas Makes Me Blue (jazz version, single, SW, 2015)
Genuine Fake (17 track album, SW, 2017)
Tiny Drop (feat Andrew Bird), (single, SW, 2019)
This Is All You Felt (single, SW, 2019)
The Beep Beep Song (2019) (single, SW, 8/2/19)
Don't Turn Your Back On Love (single, SW, 8/16/19)
Letter To The Last Generation (album, SW 10/18/19)
Goldfinger (single, "Not From Where I'm Standing" Bond theme compilation, Come Play With Me records 10/30/20)
Letter To The Last Generation (vinyl album + two bonus tracks, Fetch Happened 12/4/20)
Featured vocalist and songwriter:
Dive Index- Lost In The Pressure (album, 2014)
The Happening- Miles Away From America (album, 2016)
Reinier Zonneveld- Archive (single, 2016)
Reinier Zonneveld- You Could Be the One I Want (single, 2016)
Reinier Zonneveld- "Interference" (single, 2016)
Featured vocalist:
The Wedding Present- Holly Jolly Hollywood (single, Scopitones, 2008)
Fol Chen-The Longer U Wait remix (single, Asthmatic Kitty, 2009)
Fol Chen- The New December (album, Asthmatic Kitty, 2010)
Fol Chen- "I Walked" (single, Sufjan Stevens cover, Ashtmatic Kitty 2011)
The Empress of the Blues- A Tribute to Bessie Smith (Back Water Blues", Reimagine Music 2014)
The Essentials featuring Simone White (album, SW, 2017)