A little bit about me…
Hello! My name is Rosina Bullen and I am singer songwriter from the UK. I am often asked to describe my music and what genre it is, this can be hard to explain as there are so many different influences that I take inspiration from so I would say that the main themes that spring to mind focus on story-telling, trying to find yourself, having your heart broken or learning to heal. Something I think we have all experienced at one point or another during our lives!
I grew up in Suffolk, East Anglia in a little village called Bildeston in a very creative family. My siblings and I were always encouraged to be creative and it was clear from a very young age that music was always going to be my passion in life. I originally wanted to be a violinist but in my early teens I had some wrist complications and had various operations on them that meant that I couldn’t play anymore so I had to find my musical voice in another way, this is when I took my singing more seriously.
I trained in Jazz at both the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and The Manhattan School of Music in New York and I feel that my jazz education has definitely influenced my songwriting in the way that I think about harmony, melody and rhythm.
In 2018 I moved to New York where I studied and played around the city, meeting new people and exploring this incredible city. I moved back to the UK when the pandemic hit and it was a bit of a shock to the system to go from the busy streets of Manhattan to living with my parents who enjoyed complaining when they could about the traffic through the village – there were probably about 10 cars that came through the high street a day! However, this did give me the time and space to write my debut EP ‘Painting a Picture’ which I released in December 2022. I moved back to New York in the summer of 2022 where I am currently based and sound my time writing songs, playing with incredible musicians around the city and looking after my many house plants!
I have some exciting projects in the pipeline and am actually heading back into the studio next month in New York to record some of the new music I have been working on! I am so excited to have Hector Castillo producing the new record and to work with some of my favourite people on the planet!