Biography
Rosabella Gregory is an award winning songwriter and composer.
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2000, Rosabella Gregory, is a half-egyptian, half-indian musician from the small Devon village of Ivybridge, now living and working in London.
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She has released three solo albums and performed her work throughout the UK and internationally, at venues such as The Royal Festival Hall, Live at Zédel and in support of the legendary Jools Holland on his Country House tour. Her musicianship has led to collaborations with such luminaries as Bob James, Soumik Datta and Árstíðir.
Rosabella composes for theatre, television and opera, and her work has been performed at such venues as Hoxton Hall, The Arcola and 59E59 NYC. Collaborating with her twin Dina has given Rosabella her most rewarding writing experiences, from writing a rock opera for the ENO Lilian Baylis programme at 16, to winning the Vivian Ellis prize at 21, right up to the present day and their collaboration on a new adaptation of The Wind in the Willows for Audible starring Jennifer Saunders and Harriet Walter. In 2021 Broadway Records released a World Premiere Recording of their musical “My Marcello” with an all-star cast including Santino Fontana, Laura Osnes, Terrence Mann and Derek Klena.
In June 2023, Rosabella was both the Composer and Musical Director of “T-room...The Musical” commissioned by Endstation Theatre Company, which premiered at Thoresen Theatre, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA.
Recent opera commissions include “Tutankhamun’s Shoes” for English Touring Opera and “Sammy And The Beanstalk” for OperaUpClose. Rosabella and Dina collaborated on new opera “The Haberdasher Prince”, commissioned by Lyric Opera of Kansas City that ran from April 2024 until June 2025.
Rosabella has collaborated with twin sister, Dina, to produce lyrics. These lyrics, are combined with Rosabella's voice and piano riffs.
Inspiration for Rosabella's songs come from stories, for instance Elodie. RG tells a story of a young girl who's mother has taken a man into the house whom she does not like, because she thinks she annoys him, so she expresses herself through the medium of dance.
This was written because during the years that Rosabella played piano for a local ballet class, she became aware of a young girl who didn't seem to fit in with the other children, she had a very bohemian sense of style and danced in her own way.
“I’m not singing about me. I’m a conduit to the stories that I sing about. For an artist like me, the main goal is to get that one person connecting to you.”
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