By Sarah Hepola Staff Writer. The music industry was dangerous, dirty, and initiation into its ranks required a break from your soft suburban life, with its comfy bedroom and the dining room table where, once upon a time, every meal was served to you.
Ella Red, born Ella Jennings, is part of a new generation. We could call them the children of Taylor Swift. Raised in the Dallas suburb of Frisco by two supportive and exceedingly normal parents, Ella still lives in their spacious home with her sheepadoodle, Percy. Twenty-one years old, she seems younger, giggly and girlish, with an affection for pink dresses so hyper-feminine she practically looks like a cake topper.
Her songs have strut and growl, though. Her grandmother, for one, is not crazy about the curse words. But Ella Red is another creature, sly and seductive.
One evening, Ella was noodling a bass line for a naughty little ditty in her upstairs studio, decorated with crocheted stuffed animals and fuzzy throw pillows and pictures of her boyfriend. The song was meant to shock, and it did. Her mother, Sara Jennings, who runs an e-commerce site selling decorative wreath supplies, overheard this. Catch up on the day's news you need to know.
Or with:. By signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Her passion was cello. When she was in middle school, the two of them agreed to learn guitar together, but only she did. Her younger sister, Haley, was a theater kid who commanded the spotlight, but Ella feared the stage. Carole King sold songs in high school.
