Elli Perry began her career as a performing singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer at age twelve, by sneaking onto barroom stages around her native state of Georgia. During the subsequent twenty years, she independently released multiple albums of original material, designed and co-directed award-winning music videos, wrote charting songs for other artists, was awarded several artists development grants, maintained the responsibilities of manager, booking agent, and publicist, and toured aggressively across the United States, Canada, and Europe.
On stage, she may be a melancholy mesmerist, a ballsy chanteuse, or a howling one woman vocal wrecking crew- sometimes all in the same note. On record, she has amassed a body of work that seems to defy genre- shifting from Southern Gothic blues and folk, to experimental alternative rock and roll. The thread of continuity throughout these stylistic twists and turns is the power of her live performance. Hers is a raw and arresting presence; whether alone with her guitar or as the front woman of a band, performed on theatre stages or busking on street corners and in train stations.
Elli is currently at work on a new record written during the course of a protracted absence from the stage. At the end of 2022, she began performing again for the first time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and will be releasing new music in 2023. She recently returned to the South where she lives in the coastal wetlands of Georgia.