Ella Jane

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Ella Jane Roth, born on November 7, 2001, in Manhattan, New York, is an American singer-songwriter. She grew up in Westchester County in a Jewish family; her father is a jazz pianist and she was named after Ella Fitzgerald. She started playing piano at age four and began writing songs at eleven.

She began college at Tufts University in fall 2020 as an English major but dropped out to move to Brooklyn and focus on music full-time.

In early 2020 she released “The City,” followed by “Nothing Else I Could Do” in July 2020, written during the COVID-19 lockdown. For a final AP English Literature project, she wrote a Gatsby-inspired song and posted it on TikTok in October 2020; the video went viral with more than 2 million views. She signed with Fader Label in 2020.

Her debut album, This is Not What it Looks Like!, came out on September 10, 2021. The single “Calling Card” released on October 26, 2021 and earned hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify. She even performed “Calling Card” on Elton John’s Rocket Hour on Apple Music.

In 2022, her song “Nothing Else I Could Do” was featured in the Netflix series Heartstopper. After living in Brooklyn for a year, she moved to Los Angeles. On October 28, 2022, she released her second album, Marginalia, and that year released the pop track “Sore Loser” with Charlie Hickey.

Her musical influences include Lorde, Taylor Swift, and Phoebe Bridgers. In 2023 she posted about Brazilian producer Arlyzinho BR’s album Circuitos Sintéticos on Instagram, which brought attention from Brazilian news outlets.