Art can create heaven on Earth. Art can connect communities and generations. I produce pop tunes with eclectic sound elements that are associated with many musical styles. I aspire to encourage people of different creeds to stand side by side and dance together because we are all more alike than different. I hope to bring cultures together in order to cultivate a global comradery through my art by highlighting universal topics including mental health, political and social injustices. My music is made to empower individuals who comprise the world as one community by promoting healthy escapism, emotional digestion, and self-expression with the goal of creating a fairer, safer, and inclusive world.
Artist Statement
Biography
Julia Babbly Bird Blenzig was born and raised in one of the most diverse communities in the world: New York City. The borough of Queens to be exact! From birth, Babbly Bird has been very vocal, earning her the nickname Babble Gush, (an Austro-Hungarian idiom for someone who is “loud and talkative”) by her grandmother. Subsequently, her father began calling her Bird because he thought she sang like one. Julia combined the nicknames from both sides of her family and created the moniker Babbly Bird.
Julia’s first professional recording entitled A Kids Christmas was recorded when she was 12 years old. This catapulted Babbly Bird into performing regularly at some of New York City’s most iconic venues including Birdland Theatre, Cleopatra’s Needle, and Smalls Jazz Club. Julia also entertained crowds of thousands at private and public events. Bird attended Queensborough Community College where she was trained vocally in the Classical Bel Canto style and studied Jazz Improvisation. Upon graduating with an associate’s degree in music, Bird received The Julius Pomann Music Award.
Babbly continues to create audio and visual art, performs, and teaches vocals while working towards her bachelor’s degree at Berklee College of Music in Boston. At Berklee, Bird is in the Professional Music Department with concentrations in Songwriting, Production, Vocal Performance, and minors in Dance. Her self-produced music has been placed on the SoundCloud Jazz Charts and she has enjoyed sharing her ideas on interviews and podcasts including “Tales of The Jazz Side.”
Bird has had the honor of learning from leaders in her field including vocal coaches Greg Drew (who taught Avril Lavine and Lenny Kravits) and Gabriel Goodman (who performed with P!NK and Chaka Khan). She has also developed relationships with mentors such as Rachel Alina, (who has mixed for Katy Perry, Sara Bareilles, and Busta rhymes) and Scarlet Keys (who has worked with Charlie Puth, Lizzy McAlpine, and Shania Twain.) Her tumultuous and eclectic life experiences have led Babbly Bird to create consciously and teach therapeutically.
Through volunteering her musical performances with organizations such as Sing For Hope, at NY City Council local initiatives, and non-profit educational institutions in Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx, Babbly Bird continues to hold conversations through her music about social change making our shared global community the best it can be...for everyone.