ABOUT

“... brought an immediate smile and great vibe to me. When that can happen out the blue, you know you’re on to something good!”

-Avery Jacob of AveryJ and the BA

“She’ll turn up places and have written a song on the way, and what’s almost irritating is, they’re all complete songs, and they’re never bad, and they’re often amazing.”

-Miles Wilder, musician/composer

“Veronique produces songs like how trees produce oxygen for humans. She's a true songstress, and when I say, "She can SANG!", I say with sincerity that she's one of the most versatile and great singers in Denver. Blues, Jazz, Soul, Gospel, Pop, etc.... V's humble brag hides all of this though! Yet, her professionalism and talent won't keep her hidden for too long!”

-Lee Clark Allen of Lee Clark Allen Band

“One of my favorite people.”

-Chris Ridenhour, film composer

“Veronique has an extraordinary voice by every definition. I am always eager to discover what essential experience she has captured in her latest song. Her music will uplift, entertain, and break you.”

-Hans Schweitzer, friend and fan

Music bio:

Veronique Van Pelt is a singer-songwriter from Elbert County. Her lyrics explore grit, tenderness, being lost, and getting lost -- all with an empathy and a feminist sensibility that are at once timely and timeless. The words are given life by one of the most vibrant vocal ranges this side of the Continental Divide. The result is a canvas of piano and vocals.

These are songs that continue talking to you (and to each other) days after the performance has ended. Veronique Van Pelt is the Front Range's answer to Halsey, Bonnie Raitt, and Sara Bareilles-- all rolled into one.

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Veronique Van Pelt is a freakishly prolific songwriter, advanced pop vocalist and multi instrumentalist whose music has been featured on MTV and at nme.com. She has multiple studio projects set to release including the second half of an experimental artpop album project Veronique Van Pelt's Nonesuch Palace and triple country blues LP project commencing with Who Is Bette Southern?

The daughter of a New York cabaret singer and a Colorado cowboy, Veronique began formal vocal training with her mother when she was three and began coaching others on Top 40 technique before going to University of Southern California at age 16. While getting her B. of Sc. in Music Industry from Thornton School of Music she began working in music for TV while developing a following in Los Angeles, fronting 5 bands in a thirst to understand the mechanics of music production.

In addition to album projects, coaching, work as a session musician and songwriter for hire, she created a precovid recurring event which flourished as the Deep Cuts Showcase, a songwriting showcase devoted to presenting excellence in songwriting. She also created a cooperative label concept known as COLA Records designed with the goal of one day releasing her mother’s 1972 jazz pop LP. She continues to record from home for international music clientele including film.

Crediting in part the intensity of her synesthesia, in addition to songwriting and painting in with multiple media including gunpowder, she writes books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry in her spare time, including the dual realism non-sequential romantic adventure novella accompanying her art pop album Veronique Van Pelt’s Nonesuch Palace. This aesthetic universe spills over into the rich and rugged world of Bette Southern Band, a subversive rebel country act, here to challenge the conservative ethos that traditionally surrounds country music.