About

Ella Anchor is an independent artist who has found a way to express herself in the music world where there are no barriers, making it possible to expand her mind to different methods to create, feel and live.

Her songs main style is Pop Rock and she aims to connect with her listeners through her lyrics that usually talk about situations that many other people have already experienced.

In some of her songs are added the excitement of guitars, bass, drums and synthesizers, and some others are kept the simplicity of having only the piano as the dominant instrument.

Ella Anchor is taking it a step further by learning to produce, record, mix and master her own music. This has been a great challenge experienced day after day, as no one is born ready.

Everything is a process of evolution, and Ella hopes her listeners will grow along with her and find themselves in her music.

Earlier Life

  • Younger Ella Anchor playing keyboard

    When everything started

    Rafaela Andrade, known as Ella Anchor, was born on January 26th, 1990, in the city of São Bernardo do Campo - SP - Brazil.
    Music began gaining space in her life still at a young age, when she started listening to the records her father used to buy.
    She would also be delighted with her older sister, who took classical piano lessons. At the age of five, her mother encouraged her to take music lessons too.
  • Ella Anchor wearing a Good Charlotte t-shirt and brass knuckles necklace

    Musical influences

    Around age 12, she started listening to artists that were becoming popular at that time, such as: Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, Red Hot Chili Peppers, t.A.T.u.
    Ella used to translate their songs into Portuguese to understand the meaning of the lyrics and learn English.
    She moved to another city when she was 14 years old. It was at that time that other musical influences emerged, such as Good Charlotte, Evanescence, Yellowcard, Rammstein and she started to compose small melodies and lyrics, but still didn't have enough knowledge to write entire songs.
    At the age of 16, she went a rock festival for the first time, where Yellowcard and Fall Out Boy were playing.
  • Ella Anchor under a cherry blossom tree in Japan

    Life in Japan

    In 2009, Ella moved to Japan to work. It was a hard decision since she had to leave behind all of her friends. Amongst her neighbors there were two boys that liked to play guitar and sing, Ella and the boys used to record cover videos for fun.
    Japan brought to Ella the opportunity to go to the concerts of two of her favorite bands: Linkin Park and Evanescence. She went back to studying piano, and being, inspired by the struggles she faced while living in Japan, she managed to write her first songs.
  • Ella Anchor in front of Berklee College of Music building in Boston - USA

    United States adventure

    Ella returned to Brazil in 2014 and then, in 2016, she went to the United States for a two year exchange program.
    During that time, she was able to study a little bit of music production, songwriting, music business, and had the chance to attend for two consecutive years to the Berklee Onsite event, which brings together Berklee Online students from all over the world for workshops and lectures.
    She also got the chance to go to concerts of many people who inspires her including her favorite band Good Charlotte.
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    Ella now

    Now, Ella is back to Brazil, continuously immersing herself into the musical universe in her spare time.
    She created this special place to share her songs with anyone who wants to listen to them.
    Ella wants to connect to the listeners hoping they can find in music the happiness that she has found.