Elle Varner
Gabrielle Serene "Elle" Varner (born February 12, 1989) is an American Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Raised in Los Angeles, she studied at New York University's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. In October 2009, she signed with RCA Records along with a co-publishing agreement with Sony Music.
Varner released her debut album, Perfectly Imperfect, on August 7, 2012, preceded by the release of the single "Only Wanna Give It to You". The album debuted at number four on the US Billboard Hot 200.
Early life
Varner is of African American, White American and Cape Verdean descent and the daughter of Mikelyn Roderick and Jimmy Varner, songwriters and publishers. Roderick was a backup vocalist for Barry White; and has written and recorded with Tevin Campbell and Rahsaan Patterson. Roderick released an album on the Dome label in 2007. Jimmy Varner is a songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who has collaborated with Gerald Alston, Kool & the Gang, and Will Downing. Her parents, together with Stan Sheppard, formed the group By All Means which was a minor success.
Varner, Elle Filmography
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2014, role: actress
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2014, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2013, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2013, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2013, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2013, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2012, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2012, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
Elle Varner
ALBUMS
- Perfectly Imperfect released: 2012
32 Flavors
Squint your eyes and look closer
I'm not between you and your ambition!
I am poster girl with no poster
I am 32 flavors and then some
I'm beyond your peripheral vision
So you might wanna turn your head
Cause one day you might find you are hungry
And eat most of the words you just
Said, said, said....
I just gotta say something right quick
All right, growing up nobody understood me!
They didn't understand what I was doing, what I was about
Why I had glasses on, why I wore what I wore and this that and the third
But you know what?
I'm here now, and I'm doing my thing
And what I wanna tell you is
You out there, you're different,
You got your own swag, you got your own shit going on
Don't let anyone in this world take it away from you
Cause that's all you got!
Squint your eyes and look closer
I'm not between you and your ambition!
I am poster girl with no poster
I am 32 flavors and then some
I'm beyond your peripheral vision
So you might wanna turn your head
Cause one day you might find you are hungry
And eat most of the words you just