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I Finally Did It
- Apr 13, 2025
- 3 min read
Photo by the lovely Vanessa MacDonald
It's been a deep process, a decade long journey, and now the music is released into the world and my inner voice says "there's no turning back!"
There is a part of me I've been saving, a part that I felt needed protecting, and so I've been hiding it from the public eye.
What you've heard from me so far, through Nēlé, is a portal into the effervescent, light, positive energy vibes that I love to be seen as. But this is not all I am or have to share through music. So with great love and painstaking patience I have found myself here, in honor and responsibility to the creative life force, releasing music the way that feels right. With my real name.
Nicole Marie
Eee! I get a bubble of anxiety-tinged excitement just writing my name here. It may not seem particularly bold in this Age of The Internet where creating profiles and giving away personal information can feel like second-nature, but my truth is that it's still a big deal. A longstanding hurdle I've now overcome.
I've always wanted to be part of a band. Musicians who choose to gather a team of people around them and unify under one name, sharing and shielding, melding and making magic together. I've maintained my desire for such a set up, and have found a band-mate! However, that success story is for another day. Back we go into the topics of vulnerability and protection. Finding bandmates is one way to protect the artist self in the public eye. Then there are individual musicians such as Lady Gaga (real name: Stefani Germanotta) who create a persona for their artist self which acts as a shield or second skin. A separation that says this is also me, but not all of me. This persona is what Nēlé represents of me. She is the part of me that offers up joy and uplifting, light-filled energy to the world. She focuses on mastering this slice of the emotional pie and offers it up tastily to listeners via the songs you have heard so far, and will continue to hear. She has a lot of experience and content still to offer in this realm.
... And there is more to me than that joyful, positive-affirmations vibe. And Nicole Marie is ready to open her kimono to reveal a body of work that is pouring out of a larger, lived truth. Songs that feel like grief, that speak to higher understanding, that ooze a genre-bending folksy-jazzy-rock rawness that makes for really good music.
I want to create remarkable music. Music that connects us beyond space and time. Music that unearths memories. Music that makes you feel like I'm reading your mind. Music that makes us friends even if we are strangers. Music you want to sing in the car, in the shower, and with your people.
I've written a lot of music that I haven't shared yet. And I will keep writing. And producing. And sharing. I want to compose songs that sink deep with timelessness. I want to be an unforgettable singer. Alanis Morrisette, Dave Matthews, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Jewel. These people are some of my inspirations for great musicianship. Truth-sayers whose courage in the creative realm change people's lives. I am going for that now. I am ready.
So thank you for listening in to hear if the next song will be one of the greats, one that touches your heart. Thank you for being a fan of this work.
And now, you are welcome to tune into two new songs 'Rest' by Nicole Marie and 'Glow' by Nēlé. Please enjoy, and let me know how you like it by hitting reply, commenting and sharing!
Nicole Marie - Rest
Nēlé - Glow
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