Nicole Dollanganger

Born: 08 September 1991

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Years Active: 2011–present

Genre/s: Lo-fi, alternative rock, folk pop, dream pop, bedroom pop, slowcore

Label/s: Eerie Organization, Crystal Math, Run for Cover

Nicole Ann Bell (born September 8, 1991), known professionally as Nicole Dollanganger, is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter. Dollanganger's music is characterized by a feminine, high-pitched vocal style, minimalist instrumentation, and lyrical themes frequently pertaining to true crime, violence, sexuality, and romance. Her music has been described as "lo-fi", "atmospheric", and "folk", and is associated with the folk, folk pop, bedroom pop, slowcore and dream pop genres.

In 2015, Rolling Stone named Dollanganger in an article titled "10 New Artists You Need to Know," stating that her "gothic folk songs," described as "macabre millennial nightmares, softened by dream-pop tranquilizers, reverberating from a casket-shaped music box," are "as beautiful as they are brutal." Most of her releases were released as digital-only, and a majority of them were initially published by Dollanganger herself through the music website Bandcamp. Her stage name comes from the Dollanganger Series of novels by V. C. Andrews.

Dollanganger was born on September 8, 1991, in Scarborough, a suburban district in Toronto, Ontario in Canada. Dollanganger grew up between Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario, and southwest Florida in the United States. Dollanganger would later go on to cite musicians her father listened to during her childhood, such as American country music singers Bobbie Gentry and Tammy Wynette, as influential on her own musical style.