This is one amazing artist. An artist full of life and passion for her family and her music, definitely one to look out for as she creates great music.
Vessy Mink is a Chicago born singer songwriter & producer, Vessy Mink got her musical start singing background vocals and playing tambourine with her big sister Antje’s band, Just Blame Eve. After moving to LA in 98 Vessy landed her first song license for the feature film “In A Class Of His Own.” In 2001 Vessy’s first band The Lovesick Lunatics released their debut album, Black Car. The 2nd track “Hollywood Hang Me” was quickly picked up by Fox’s hit tv show, The Gilmore Girls and ran as a promo for 3 straight months.
Since that time, Vessy’s had her songs licensed to a plethora of commercials, documentaries, web series and feature films. While living in Venice, CA she was cast in a handful of national commercials for Apple & AT & T. During this time she connected with LAFCO(LA Film Cooperative) where Vessy learned about documentary filmmaking, cohabitating with many other artists and so much more.
At the same time Vessy performed all over LA with an outstanding A’capella trio called The Smiling Minks and various other improvisational musical acts. She had weekly musical residencies at The Cows End in Marina Del Rey & in the downstairs cavern at the Viper Room. All sorts of amazing musical guests would join Vessy at these shows and one never knew exactly who would be gracing the stage.
Following the Burning Man festivals in 2004/2005, Vessy landed a musical residency in Avoriaz, France. She booked the show before having the band and so jumped on Craigs List to find the players that would accompany her. After the month long residency where her 3 piece band performed every night at a restaurant called Le Cabané, Vessy took a train to her family roots in Sofia, Bulgaria. Following her stay with her grandmother Veselina (who sang and taught her Bulgarian lullabies when she was just a child) Vessy flew to London where she recorded her second full length album at Fortress Studios in Hackney with a fresh new set of talented players thrown together by her manager at the time, Ralph Cavallaro.
After flying back to LA, Vessy picked up where she left off with performing live shows. Chicago was calling however, and in January 2008, she and her new fiancé (whom she also happened to find on Craigs List) took the long road trip back home to Chicago.
Vessy Mink currently lives in the NW suburbs of Chicago with her four amazing children and her wonderfully talented musical husband. She has not once stopped writing & producing songs and creating ideas from which to blossom. Vessy writes and produces songs out of her home studio and is currently hard at work with various musical projects including ARC Arinova Rhythm Collective, THM NME and a handful of very new collaborations born from social media.
Vessy also is a children’s music artist who taught the Wiggleworms music program for the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. She spends her time writing and producing custom songs for every sentimental occasion under the sun. Her latest accomplishments include
becoming a yoga teacher through the Alchemy School of Yoga & being cast in the online improv comedy ensemble, Hard Times Of Northwest Indiana.
Vessy has released many songs in the past 5 years, some of which are available via online digital platforms such as I Tunes, Spotify, Deezer IHeart Radio etc.
For bookings new music, collaborations and contact info please visit https://www.vessymink.net to get in touch.
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