Dutch ReBelle
{{Short description|American rapper}}
Vanda Bernadeau, professionally known as Dutch ReBelle, is a rapper from Boston, Massachusetts.{{Cite web |title=ReBelle with a cause |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2012/10/11/scene-and-heard-rebelle-with-cause/VSrHmh7qvvDCv65BmBRweJ/story.html |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=The Boston Globe |language=en-US}}
Early life
ReBelle was born in Hinche, Haiti. She was raised in Mattapan and Milton. ReBelle began rapping at age 9. In college, she decided to pursue a music career. ReBelle was discovered while doing locs at the house of a customer whose roommate had a radio show, when she rapped spontaneously on air.{{Cite web |title=Lyricist Dutch ReBelle on cusp of a breakout year {{!}} Dorchester Reporter |url=https://www.dotnews.com/2013/lyricist-dutch-rebelle-cusp-breakout-year |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=www.dotnews.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Boston's ReBelle braces herself for the big time |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2014/09/11/boston-rapper-rebelle-braces-herself-for-big-time/2jg6zrelZUzuplK0QSKYpO/story.html |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=The Boston Globe |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Northampton to host its second Power of Truths Arts & Education Festival |url=https://www.gazettenet.com/Northampton-to-host-its-second-Power-of-Truths-Arts---Education-Festival-50701569 |website=Daily Hampshire Gazette}}{{Cite web |date=2018-10-26 |title=Local Female Musicians and Their Upcoming Boston Shows |url=https://www.exhalelifestyle.com/local-female-musicians-and-their-upcoming-boston-shows/ |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=Exhale Lifestyle |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Bielagus |first=Abby |date=2019-06-19 |title=Boston's New Creative Guard |url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2019/06/19/boston-creative-guard/ |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=Boston Magazine |language=en-US}}
Career
Regarding her stage name, ReBelle has stated, “When I was in high school, it kind of just happened that people started calling me Von Dutch after the trucker hat line. Then it got shortened to Dutch in college, and when I started taking music seriously, I added the ReBelle to the end. It was an ode to my country, but it was also from the Lauryn Hill song “I Find It Hard To Say (Rebel)”. ReBelle played her first gig at Boston University. She then went on to perform at the House of Blues and the Hard Rock Café.
In 2012, ReBelle performed at the Female Hip-Hop Honors in Los Angeles. In 2014, she was named Boston Music Awards’s Hip-Hop Artist of the Year.{{Cite web |title=Hip-Hop Fest Showcases A Boston Rap Scene Now Gaining Steam |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2015/07/02/hip-hop-fest-showcases-a-boston-rap-scene-now-gaining-steam |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=www.wbur.org |date=2 July 2015 |language=en}} In 2015, she performed at the first Boston Hip Hop Fest in a decade.{{Cite web |title=Ambition, unity on show at Boston Hip-Hop Fest - The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2015/07/06/ambition-unity-show-boston-hip-hop-fest/lMHNDBBzOTRePAQpbsOHQL/story.html |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=BostonGlobe.com |language=en-US}} In 2017, ReBelle's song, "Rude Boys" was featured in Rock Band 4.{{Cite web |title='Rock Band' Gamers Can Now Play Songs By Boston's Indie Musicians |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2017/03/27/rock-band-boston-indie-musicians |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=www.wbur.org |date=27 March 2017 |language=en}} She's rapped at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,{{Cite web |title=Bilal Brings Creative Resistance To The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/11/26/bilal-isabella-stewart-gardner-rise-series |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=www.wbur.org |date=26 November 2018 |language=en}} Museum of Science's planetarium,{{Cite web |title=Our 10 Picks For Live Music In Boston This Summer |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/05/29/live-music-boston-summer-guide |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=www.wbur.org |date=30 May 2019 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=10 Concerts To Get To This Winter In Boston |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/01/07/concerts-music-winter-preview-boston |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=www.wbur.org |date=7 January 2020 |language=en}} and Boston Cannabis Week's music festival.{{Cite web |title=Hip-hop concert culminates Boston Cannabis Week |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/20/arts/hip-hop-concert-culminates-boston-cannabis-week/ |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=The Boston Globe |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2022-08-24 |title=Boston Cannabis Week announces lineup for annual music & arts festival |url=https://vanyaland.com/2022/08/24/boston-cannabis-week-announces-lineup-for-annual-music-arts-festival/ |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=Vanyaland |language=en-US}} In February 2020, she opened for Rapsody at The Sinclair.{{Cite web |title=Rapsody Brings a Message of Self-Love and Empowerment to the Sinclair {{!}} Arts {{!}} The Harvard Crimson |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/2/25/rapsody-a-black-woman-created-this-tour-review/ |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=www.thecrimson.com}} In February 2023, ReBelle attended the Grammy Awards for the first time. She is a member of The Recording Academy.{{Cite web |last=KENNEDY |first=DAKOTAH |date=2023-04-06 |title="I'm Not On That Grammys Stage Yet, But It Feels One Step Closer" |url=https://digboston.com/im-not-on-that-grammys-stage-yet-but-it-feels-one-step-closer/ |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=Dig Bos}}
KillerBoomBox.com wrote, "If Ghostface Killah and Lauryn had a baby, it would be Dutch." She was named Boston
ReBelle has stated she is often the only woman in the room in hip-hop spaces and has to create her own space within these environments.{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=City Scenes: How Boston's DIY Hip-Hop Community Is Fending For Itself |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/10/14/922245184/city-scenes-how-bostons-diy-hip-hop-community-is-fending-for-itself |website=NPR}} She has said working in a music industry dominated by men is much easier than surviving other traumas she's experienced.{{Cite web |title=Drive: Dutch ReBelle's Rocky Road |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2013/04/04/dutch-rebelle-sunday |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=www.wbur.org |date=4 April 2013 |language=en}} She has faced discrimination when trying to book Boston venues as a hip-hop artist.{{Cite web |title=Is Boston Hostile To Hip-Hop? |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/02/28/boston-hip-hop |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=www.wbur.org |date=28 February 2018 |language=en}}
Discography
= As primary artist =
| class="wikitable"
|+Albums !Title !Year !Source |
| Bang Bang
|2018 |
| ReBelle Diaries
|2014 |
| Vodou
|2013 |
| Married to the Music
|2012 |
| class="wikitable"
|+Extended plays !Title !Year !Source |
| No Stems
|2017 |
| Kiss Kiss
|2015 |
| class="wikitable"
|+Singles !Title !Year !Source |
| “Gooniez”
|2022 |
| "Earthwormz"
|2021 |
| “Stony”
|2021 |
| "Big Zoe"
|2019 |
| "Playin'"
|2019 |
| "Maria"
|2019 |
| "Supafly"
|2018 |
| "I Can't"
|2017 |
| "Stripper"
|2017 |
| "Mix It Up"
|2016 |
| "Not Sleeping"
|2016 |
| "Goddess"
|2014 |
| “Sunday Morning”
|2013 |
| "Stop It"
|2011 |
= As featured artist =
| class="wikitable"
|+Albums !Title !Artist !Year !Source |
| Best Of The Bean Vol. 1
|Compilation |2016 |
| Beast
|Compilation |2016 |
| class="wikitable"
|+Singles !Title !Artist !Year !Source |
| “CHOP”
|Shellz |2022 |
| "Freestyle"
|Chef Bogey |2022 |
| "Money Diaries"
|King Fiya |2022 |
| "Fashion Week"
|C. Wells |2022 |
| “BLUYELLO”
|Miranda Rae |2020 |
| "What You Want"
|Famous Nobodies |2013 |
References
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