Brazilian, New York–based actress, producer, writer, and songwriter Stella Rea shares her debut single, ‘Smoke All of Me’.
Stella is the daughter of Arrigo Barnabé, the Brazilian musician and actor central to the country’s vanguard movement and known for his critically acclaimed album Clara Crocodilo. She has been writing songs since the age of twelve, while also pursuing acting and later shifting into producing and directing. Now, Stella makes her debut as a recording artist with ‘Smoke All of Me’.
Co-produced with Charles Mueller and written in isolation during the pandemic, ‘Smoke All of Me’ is a smoky swirl of jazz, pop, and indie, alluring and introspective.
“I wrote this song when I was 21 in quarantine, at a time when most of my close friends were in serious, committed relationships with the people who would later become their spouses, and I was contemplating this ever-present melancholia I seem to have.”
Stella Rea
The accompanying music video was created with a four-person crew of friends and fellow creatives, and directed by Stella’s collaborator, filmmaker Deana Taheri.
Stella shares more about her debut single:
“For a really long time, it became one of my favorites because I just thought it was so… fun. That’s one of the reasons I brought it into the studio—another was that everything else I’d been writing in recent years felt like part of a body of work, and I wouldn’t feel comfortable just letting those songs be.”
‘Smoke All of Me’ is officially out everywhere on 4 March and offers the first glimpse of Stella Rea’s debut full-length album, out later this year.
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