Dutch ReBelle explained

Vanda Bernadeau, professionally known as Dutch ReBelle, is a rapper from Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

Early life

ReBelle was born in Hinche, Haiti. She was raised in Mattapan and Milton. ReBelle began rapping at age 9. In college, she decided to pursue a music career. ReBelle was discovered while doing locs at the house of a customer whose roommate had a radio show, when she rapped spontaneously on air.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Career

Regarding her stage name, ReBelle has stated, “When I was in high school, it kind of just happened that people started calling me Von Dutch after the trucker hat line. Then it got shortened to Dutch in college, and when I started taking music seriously, I added the ReBelle to the end. It was an ode to my country, but it was also from the Lauryn Hill song “I Find It Hard To Say (Rebel)”. ReBelle played her first gig at Boston University. She then went on to perform at the House of Blues and the Hard Rock Café.

In 2012, ReBelle performed at the Female Hip-Hop Honors in Los Angeles. In 2014, she was named Boston Music Awards’s Hip-Hop Artist of the Year.[7] In 2015, she performed at the first Boston Hip Hop Fest in a decade.[8] In 2017, ReBelle's song, "Rude Boys" was featured in Rock Band 4.[9] She's rapped at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,[10] Museum of Science's planetarium,[11] [12] and Boston Cannabis Week's music festival.[13] [14] In February 2020, she opened for Rapsody at The Sinclair.[15] In February 2023, ReBelle attended the Grammy Awards for the first time. She is a member of The Recording Academy.[16]

KillerBoomBox.com wrote, "If Ghostface Killah and Lauryn had a baby, it would be Dutch." She was named Boston's Best Music Artist of 2018.[17] WBUR dubbed her album, Bang Bang, one of the best local hip-hop albums in 2018.[18] In 2020, Bandcamp wrote, "ReBelle lays bars over trap beats, with a hard edge comparable to Memphis’s Gangsta Boo or Diamond from Atlanta’s Crime Mob."[19]

ReBelle has stated she is often the only woman in the room in hip-hop spaces and has to create her own space within these environments.[20] She has said working in a music industry dominated by men is much easier than surviving other traumas she's experienced.[21] She has faced discrimination when trying to book Boston venues as a hip-hop artist.[22]

Discography

As primary artist

Albums!Title!Year!Source
Bang Bang2018[23]
ReBelle Diaries2014[24]
Vodou2013
Married to the Music2012
Extended plays!Title!Year!Source
No Stems2017[25]
Kiss Kiss2015[26]
Singles!Title!Year!Source
“Gooniez”2022[27]
"Earthwormz"2021[28]
“Stony”2021
"Big Zoe"2019[29]
"Playin'"2019
"Maria"2019[30]
"Supafly"2018[31]
"I Can't"2017[32]
"Stripper"2017[33]
"Mix It Up"2016[34]
"Not Sleeping"2016[35]
"Goddess"2014[36]
“Sunday Morning”2013
"Stop It"2011[37]

As featured artist

Albums!Title!Artist!Year!Source
Best Of The Bean Vol. 1Compilation2016[38]
BeastCompilation2016[39]
Singles!Title!Artist!Year!Source
“CHOP”Shellz2022[40]
"Freestyle"Chef Bogey2022
"Money Diaries"King Fiya2022[41]
"Fashion Week"C. Wells2022
“BLUYELLO”Miranda Rae2020[42]
"What You Want"Famous Nobodies2013

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ReBelle with a cause . 2023-07-22 . The Boston Globe . en-US.
  2. Web site: Lyricist Dutch ReBelle on cusp of a breakout year Dorchester Reporter . 2023-07-22 . www.dotnews.com . en.
  3. Web site: Boston's ReBelle braces herself for the big time . 2023-07-22 . The Boston Globe . en-US.
  4. Web site: 2023 . Northampton to host its second Power of Truths Arts & Education Festival . Daily Hampshire Gazette.
  5. Web site: 2018-10-26 . Local Female Musicians and Their Upcoming Boston Shows . 2023-07-22 . Exhale Lifestyle . en-US.
  6. Web site: Bielagus . Abby . 2019-06-19 . Boston's New Creative Guard . 2023-07-22 . Boston Magazine . en-US.
  7. Web site: Hip-Hop Fest Showcases A Boston Rap Scene Now Gaining Steam . 2023-07-22 . www.wbur.org . en.
  8. Web site: Ambition, unity on show at Boston Hip-Hop Fest - The Boston Globe . 2023-07-22 . BostonGlobe.com . en-US.
  9. Web site: 'Rock Band' Gamers Can Now Play Songs By Boston's Indie Musicians . 2023-07-22 . www.wbur.org . en.
  10. Web site: Bilal Brings Creative Resistance To The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum . 2023-07-22 . www.wbur.org . en.
  11. Web site: Our 10 Picks For Live Music In Boston This Summer . 2023-07-22 . www.wbur.org . en.
  12. Web site: 10 Concerts To Get To This Winter In Boston . 2023-07-22 . www.wbur.org . en.
  13. Web site: Hip-hop concert culminates Boston Cannabis Week . 2023-07-22 . The Boston Globe . en-US.
  14. Web site: 2022-08-24 . Boston Cannabis Week announces lineup for annual music & arts festival . 2023-07-22 . Vanyaland . en-US.
  15. Web site: Rapsody Brings a Message of Self-Love and Empowerment to the Sinclair Arts The Harvard Crimson . 2023-07-22 . www.thecrimson.com.
  16. Web site: KENNEDY . DAKOTAH . 2023-04-06 . "I'm Not On That Grammys Stage Yet, But It Feels One Step Closer" . 2023-07-22 . Dig Bos.
  17. Web site: BEST OF BOSTON: Best Music Artist . 2023-07-22 . Boston Magazine . en-US.
  18. Web site: 7 Best Albums From Boston's Hip-Hop Scene This Year . 2023-07-22 . www.wbur.org . en.
  19. Web site: 2020-05-12 . In Boston, Women and Non-Binary Rappers Own the Hip Hop Scene . 2023-07-22 . Bandcamp Daily.
  20. Web site: 2020 . City Scenes: How Boston's DIY Hip-Hop Community Is Fending For Itself . NPR.
  21. Web site: Drive: Dutch ReBelle's Rocky Road . 2023-07-22 . www.wbur.org . en.
  22. Web site: Is Boston Hostile To Hip-Hop? . 2023-07-22 . www.wbur.org . en.
  23. Web site: With Second Album 'Bang Bang,' Dutch ReBelle Reclaims Her Narrative . 2023-07-22 . www.wbur.org . en.
  24. Web site: 2015-01-20 . Dutch ReBelle Playing a Big Role for Boston Hip-Hop in 2015 . 2023-07-22 . BDCWire . en-US.
  25. Web site: Way· . G. Valentino Ball·Around My . 2017-09-01 . Stream: Dutch ReBelle Delivers No Stems . 2023-07-22 . KillerBoomBox . en-US.
  26. Web site: Album Promo Shoot with Dutch Rebelle- Kiss Kiss EP .
  27. Web site: 2022-07-26 . Dutch ReBelle plugs into 'The Matrix 'with her 'Gooniez' music video . 2023-07-22 . Vanyaland . en-US.
  28. Web site: 2021-10-19 . Dutch ReBelle delivers an earworm with 'EarthWormz' . 2023-07-22 . Vanyaland . en-US.
  29. Web site: 2020-01-02 . Dutch ReBelle rings in Haitian Independence Day with a 'Big Zoe' remix . 2023-07-22 . Vanyaland . en-US.
  30. Web site: Staff·Audio· . K. B. B. . 2019-04-19 . Listen: Dutch ReBelle x S'Black Winner - Maria . 2023-07-22 . KillerBoomBox . en-US.
  31. Web site: 2018-08-02 . Dutch ReBelle kicks it '70s-style in her new video 'SupaFly' . 2023-07-22 . Vanyaland . en-US.
  32. Web site: 2017-11-16 . New Video: Dutch ReBelle "I Can't" - Rap Radar . 2023-07-22 . rapradar.com . en-US.
  33. Web site: Dutch ReBelle: "Stripper" ft. 6ixLayne and Prince Smooth . 2023-07-22 . Hype Off Life . en-US.
  34. Web site: Victoria . Da'ryl . 2016-04-26 . Dutch Rebelle Shows Us How To "Mix It Up" - The Source . 2023-07-22 . en-US.
  35. Web site: 2016-11-09 . After a restless night, Dutch ReBelle drops new track 'Not Sleeping' in response to election . 2023-07-22 . Vanyaland . en-US.
  36. Web site: notupstate . 2014-10-12 . Watch Dutch ReBelle's "Goddess" Video - The Source . 2023-07-22 . en-US.
  37. Web site: Rys . Dan. 2014-09-04 . Dutch ReBelle Hits The Club With Fred The Godson In "Stop It" Video - XXL . 2023-07-22 . XXL Mag . en.
  38. Web site: 2016-01-26 . Hustle & Glow: Indystry's 'Best Of The Bean Vol. 1' illuminates Boston's hip-hop scene . 2023-07-22 . Vanyaland . en-US.
  39. Web site: 2016-12-14 . 'Beast' of a Comp: Behind the mission of Matt McArthur and The Record Co. . 2023-07-22 . Vanyaland . en-US.
  40. Web site: 2022-02-07 . Shellz readies a revolution with Dutch ReBelle in the video for 'CHOP' . 2023-07-22 . Vanyaland . en-US.
  41. Web site: 2022-03-11 . Dutch ReBelle and King Fiya record their riches with 'Money Diaries' . 2023-07-22 . Vanyaland . en-US.
  42. Web site: Sound On Music Festival: An evening with R&B and neo-soul singer Miranda Rae and friends . 2023-07-22 . www.wbur.org . en.

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