It’s nearly impossible to hear Ollie Childs’ voice without swooning. The strength and sincerity of his buttery vocals together with songs that dip seamlessly from stories of love, to the misery of heartache, and even to the darkness of divorce - are heart melting, to say the least.
Ollie first picked-up a guitar at age 19 on his lunch break while working as a motorcycle mechanic. A coworker had brought the instrument to the shop and let him have a go. Quickly, Ollie was hooked, and has been...
It’s nearly impossible to hear Ollie Childs’ voice without swooning. The strength and sincerity of his buttery vocals together with songs that dip seamlessly from stories of love, to the misery of heartache, and even to the darkness of divorce - are heart melting, to say the least.
Ollie first picked-up a guitar at age 19 on his lunch break while working as a motorcycle mechanic. A coworker had brought the instrument to the shop and let him have a go. Quickly, Ollie was hooked, and has been writing and composing music ever since.
Interestingly, British-born Ollie finds most of his inspiration from great American singer/songwriters like Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, and Michael Stipe. His music echoes of the same integrity, vulnerability, poeticism and tell-it-like-it-is sensibility as these artists, but the singularity of his voice, his personal style and his disarming sense of humor, create a sound that’s all his own.
“What I love about music,” Ollie says, “is it’s ability to expose the beauty and lightness of human emotion from underneath even the darkest of experiences.”
Born and raised outside of London, the 34 year-old singer-songwriter moved to New York City earlier this year. Ollie spends his time between NYC, Martha’s Vineyard and Cumberland Island, Georgia and recently completed a U.K. and European tour with Ben Taylor. His grandfather, Frank Doel, was a central character in the 1983 film, Charring Cross Road, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins.
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