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'''Bree Sharp''' (born December 17, 1975)<ref name=bio /> is an American singer and songwriter influenced by [[rock and roll|rock]], [[pop music|pop]], and [[folk music|folk]]. As of the 2010s, she is the [[lead vocalist]] of the [[electropop]] band Beautiful Small Machines.
'''Bree Sharp''' (born December 17, 1975)<ref name=bio /> is an American musician and actress. As of the 2010s, she is the [[lead vocalist]] of the [[electropop]] band Beautiful Small Machines.


A native of [[Philadelphia]], Sharp studied theatre at [[New York University]] before releasing her first album ''[[A Cheap and Evil Girl]]'' in 1999, which contained the cult single "[[David Duchovny (song)|David Duchovny]]." Her second album, ''[[More B.S.]]'' was released in 2002. Beginning in 2005, Sharp began recording music for anime and cartoons dubbed by [[4Kids Entertainment]]. In 2009, she founded Beautiful Small Machines with long time collaborator Don DiLego. Beautiful Small Machines released the EP ''Robots in Love'' in 2009 and the album ''The DJ Stayed Home'' in 2014.
==Biography==
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Bree Sharp was born in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] and learned to play guitar by 15.<ref name=bio /> <!--She attended [[John Story Jenks School|J. S. Jenks Elementary School]] in the Chestnut Hill section of the city. She graduated from [[Central High School (Philadelphia)|Central High School]].--> By 17, she had moved to [[New York City]] to study theater at [[New York University]]. She eventually returned to music and while in college began writing the songs that led to her 1998 record deal with [[Trauma Records]]. In July 1999, she released her first album, ''[[A Cheap and Evil Girl]]''. The album's first single, "[[David Duchovny (song)|David Duchovny]]", garnered a [[cult following]] both for its musical qualities and its comical references to the [[David Duchovny|titular actor]].{{citation needed|date=June 2013}} Will Shivers and Charles Forsch, production assistants and producers on ''[[The X-Files]],'' produced a video for "David Duchovny" featuring several celebrities crooning the lyrics.<ref name="CNN">{{cite web | url = http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9907/27/bree.sharp/index.html | title = Bree Sharp owes her fame to a secret agent man | date = July 27, 1999 | first= Donna | last = Freydkin | publisher = [[CNN|CNN Interactive]] | accessdate= June 18, 2013}}</ref> The video was a hit on the Internet and circulated widely in the underground fan community.<ref name="Duchovny Video">{{cite web|url=http://www.breesharp.net/media/duchovny.html |title="David Duchovny" Video |publisher=Breesharp.net |accessdate=29 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511000207/http://www.breesharp.net/media/duchovny.html |archivedate=11 May 2009 }}</ref> The song lyrics were quoted in David Duchovny's later [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime Network]] TV series, ''[[Californication (TV series)|Californication]]'', in 2011.<ref name="YouTube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtYhB9WAuIM|title="Californication" Clip, 'The Trial', David Duchovny, Natascha McElhone|work=YouTube|accessdate=29 October 2014}}</ref>


==Early life and education==
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Sharp's second single was "[[America (Bree Sharp song)|America]]," an examination of contemporary [[Culture of the United States|American culture]].
Sharp was born in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], and learned to play guitar by 15.<ref name=bio /> <!--She attended [[John Story Jenks School|J. S. Jenks Elementary School]] in the Chestnut Hill section of the city. She graduated from [[Central High School (Philadelphia)|Central High School]].--> By 17, she had moved to [[New York City]] to study theater at [[New York University]]. While in college, Sharp began writing the songs that led to her 1998 record deal with [[Trauma Records]].

== Career ==
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In July 1999, she released her first album, ''[[A Cheap and Evil Girl]]''. The album's first single, "[[David Duchovny (song)|David Duchovny]]," garnered a [[cult following]] both for its musical qualities and its comical references to the [[David Duchovny|titular actor]].{{citation needed|date=June 2013}} Will Shivers and Charles Forsch, production assistants and producers on ''[[The X-Files]],'' produced a video for "David Duchovny" featuring myriad celebrities crooning the lyrics including [[Brad Pitt]], [[George Clooney]], [[Whoopi Goldberg]], [[Alex Trebek]], [[David Spade]], all four members of [[Kiss (band)|KISS]], [[Gillian Anderson]], [[David Duchovny]] himself and dozens of others.<ref name="CNN">{{cite web | url = http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9907/27/bree.sharp/index.html | title = Bree Sharp owes her fame to a secret agent man | date = July 27, 1999 | first= Donna | last = Freydkin | publisher = [[CNN|CNN Interactive]] | accessdate= June 18, 2013}}</ref> The video was a hit on the Internet and circulated widely in the underground fan community.<ref name="Duchovny Video">{{cite web|url=http://www.breesharp.net/media/duchovny.html |title="David Duchovny" Video |publisher=Breesharp.net |accessdate=29 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511000207/http://www.breesharp.net/media/duchovny.html |archivedate=11 May 2009 }}</ref> The song lyrics were quoted in [[David Duchovny]]'s later [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime Network]] TV series, ''[[Californication (TV series)|Californication]]'', in 2011.<ref name="YouTube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtYhB9WAuIM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/PtYhB9WAuIM |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|title="Californication" Clip, 'The Trial', David Duchovny, Natascha McElhone|work=YouTube|date=21 March 2011 |accessdate=29 October 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In the summer of 1999, Sharp played as part of the [[Lilith Fair]], the all-women music festival created by [[Sarah McLachlan]] and headlined by McLachlan and [[Sheryl Crow]]. In 2000, Sharp toured with [[Bush (British band)|Bush]] and [[Moby]] as part of MTV’s “Campus Invasion Tour” in colleges across the United States.<ref name="Lilith Fair">{{cite web | url = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_Fair|title="Lilith Fair"}}</ref>{{Circular reference|date=September 2022}}

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Sharp's second single "[[America (Bree Sharp song)|America]]," is an examination of contemporary [[Culture of the United States|American culture]].


In 2001, Sharp left Trauma Records,<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/bree_sharp/index.shtml |title=Bree Sharp - Biography |publisher=NetGlimpse.com |date=n.d. |accessdate=June 18, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604014346/http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/bree_sharp/index.shtml |archivedate=June 4, 2013 }}</ref> which at least one music journalist attributed to the company's poor management.<ref name="Trauma">{{cite web | title = Live Concert Review: Zack Hexum - Victorians Midnight Cafe | date = December 6, 2007 | first = Nathan | last = Veale | publisher = Cleverock.com | url = http://cleverock.com/concert_reviews/p2003_articleid/40 | quote = The [Zack Hexum] album languished in obscurity under Trauma's poor management. | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090422100829/http://cleverock.com/concert_reviews/p2003_articleid/40 | archivedate = April 22, 2009}}</ref>
In 2001, Sharp left Trauma Records,<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/bree_sharp/index.shtml |title=Bree Sharp - Biography |publisher=NetGlimpse.com |date=n.d. |accessdate=June 18, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604014346/http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/bree_sharp/index.shtml |archivedate=June 4, 2013 }}</ref> which at least one music journalist attributed to the company's poor management.<ref name="Trauma">{{cite web | title = Live Concert Review: Zack Hexum - Victorians Midnight Cafe | date = December 6, 2007 | first = Nathan | last = Veale | publisher = Cleverock.com | url = http://cleverock.com/concert_reviews/p2003_articleid/40 | quote = The [Zack Hexum] album languished in obscurity under Trauma's poor management. | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090422100829/http://cleverock.com/concert_reviews/p2003_articleid/40 | archivedate = April 22, 2009}}</ref>


In August 2002, she released her second album, ''[[More B.S.]],'' on her own label, Ahimsa Records. In September 2004, Sharp released ''[[Live at Fez]],'' a recording of a May 2003 performance in [[New York City]].
In August 2002, she released her second album, ''[[More B.S.]],'' on her own label, Ahimsa Records. In September 2004, Sharp released ''[[Live at Fez]],'' a recording of a May 2003 unplugged performance in [[New York City]], which included the new song, “Waving Goodbye."


In 2005, Sharp began working as a writer on ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'', dubbed in English as ''Magical DoReMi''. She also contributed the song "This Side of Paradise" to the dubbed English version of ''[[Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys]]'' and "Team Up!" as the opening theme music for the dubbed English version of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]],'' also known as ''Mew Mew Power.'' She also sang most of the songs for ''Mew Mew Power.'' She also contributed the song "Where the Girls Are" in the [[Winx Club#Variations|4Kids Entertainment edit]] of ''[[Winx Club]].''
In 2005, Sharp began working as a teleplay writer on Japanese anime import ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'', dubbed in English as ''Magical DoReMi'' that aired as part of Fox’s Saturday morning cartoon block. She also contributed the song "This Side of Paradise" to the dubbed English version of the Pokemon movie ''[[Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys]]'' and "Team Up!" as the opening theme music for the dubbed English television version of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]],'' also known as ''Mew Mew Power.'' Sharp also sang most of the songs for ''Mew Mew Power'' and contributed the song "Where the Girls Are" in the [[Winx Club#Variations|4Kids Entertainment edit]] of ''[[Winx Club]].''


In July 2007, Sharp starred as Leila in [[Vassar College]]'s Powerhouse Summer Theater [[The Boy Who Heard Music#Rock opera/Musical|workshop production]] of [[Pete Townshend]]'s ''[[The Boy Who Heard Music]].''
In July 2007, Sharp starred as Leila in [[Vassar College]]'s Powerhouse Summer Theater [[The Boy Who Heard Music#Rock opera/Musical|workshop production]] of [[Pete Townshend]]'s ''[[The Boy Who Heard Music]].''


On August 2, 2007, Sharp announced on her [[MySpace]] [[blog]] that the mixing of her long-delayed third studio album, ''Robots in Love,'' was all but complete,<ref name="Blog">[https://archive.is/20121205191922/http://www.myspace.com/breesharp/blog]</ref> and posted four of the new songs ("EastSide," "So Long 2 U," "In the Name of Revenge," and "Robots in Love") on her MySpace music player. In January 2008, she added two more new songs ("Counting Back to 1" and "The Wretched Sound of City Cars") to the player. Sharp ultimately opted to release the new material not as a solo album but through Beautiful Small Machines, a band comprising herself and longtime collaborator Don DiLego.
On August 2, 2007, Sharp announced on her [[MySpace]] [[blog]] that the mixing of her long-delayed third studio album, ''Robots in Love,'' was all but complete,<ref name="Blog">{{Cite web|url=http://www.myspace.com/breesharp/blog|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20121205191922/http://www.myspace.com/breesharp/blog|url-status=dead|title=Bree Sharp &#124; Blog bei Myspace|archive-date=2012-12-05|access-date=2010-12-30}}</ref> and posted four of the new songs ("EastSide," "So Long 2 U," "In the Name of Revenge," and "Robots in Love") on her MySpace music player. In January 2008, she added two more new songs ("Counting Back to 1" and "The Wretched Sound of City Cars") to the player. Sharp ultimately opted to release the new material not as a solo album but under the name Beautiful Small Machines, a band comprising herself and longtime collaborator Don DiLego.


Following the ''Robots in Love [[Extended play|EP]]'' and the single "Simple Joys (4 Roy & Pris)," both released in 2009, Beautiful Small Machines in 2012 released a music video for the song [[Paper Planes (M.I.A. song)|Paper Planes]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHzlSuYrzeU|title=Paper Planes [MIA] by Beautiful Small Machines [HD]|work=YouTube|accessdate=29 October 2014}}</ref> Their next album entitled ''The DJ Stayed Home'' was released in 2014.
Following the ''Robots in Love [[Extended play|EP]]'', she released the single "Simple Joys (4 Roy & Pris)," which featured vocals from [[Simon Le Bon]], the longtime frontman for [[Duran Duran]]. The two became friends when she opened for them at a radio show in St Louis, MO in 2003. The song is an homage to the ill-fated androids from the movie [[Blade Runner]]. In 2012 Beautiful Small Machines released their version and music video for the song [[Paper Planes (M.I.A. song)|Paper Planes]], a twangy cover of the [[M.I.A. (rapper)|M.I.A.]] song.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHzlSuYrzeU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/aHzlSuYrzeU |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|title=Paper Planes [MIA] by Beautiful Small Machines [HD]|work=YouTube|date=22 March 2012 |accessdate=29 October 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Their next album entitled ''The DJ Stayed Home'' was released in 2014.


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Sharp made her film debut in the role of Erica in the independent movie ''[[Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship]]'', directed by [[Jeff Kaplan]], which also starred [[Anna Chlumsky]], [[Cristin Milioti]] and [[Adrian Martinez (actor)|Adrian Martinez]].<ref>Text archive of
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Sharp is a [[Vegetarianism|vegetarian]] and [[Animal liberation movement|animal rights activist]].<ref name="Womanrock">{{cite web | url = http://www.womanrock.com/features/bree_sharp.htm | title = Bree Sharp: Putting the Mew in Musician | first=Andrea | last = Benvenuto | date = n.d. | publisher=WomanRock.com | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080724121307/http://www.womanrock.com/features/bree_sharp.htm | archivedate= July 24, 2008}}</ref>
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[https://archive.today/20130624221915/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KyRrh9mo9MwJ:www.bertandarniemovie.com/&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1 ''Bert And Arnie's Guide to Friendship''] (official site). Retrieved on June 21, 2013.</ref>


From 2012- 2014 Sharp was a member of the [[Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre|Upright Citizen’s Brigade]] sketch comedy house teams “Dinner” and “Ripley” and performed weekly the [[Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre]] in [[New York City]]. In 2014, she guest starred on an episode of [[Louie (American TV series)|''Louie'']]. The episode also starred [[Jerry Seinfeld]], [[Victor Garber]] and [[Yvonne Strahovski]].<ref name="IMDB">{{cite web | url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3704072/|title="Louie"|website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>
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She made her film debut in the role of Erica in the independent movie ''Bert And Arnie's Guide to Friendship'', directed by Jeff Kaplan.<ref>Text archive of

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[https://archive.is/20130624221915/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KyRrh9mo9MwJ:www.bertandarniemovie.com/&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1 ''Bert And Arnie's Guide to Friendship''] (official site). Retrieved on June 21, 2013.</ref>
In 2018, along with partners Don DiLego, [[Jesse Malin]] and Tom Baker, Sharp helped to open the east village bar and music venue, Coney Island Baby on Avenue A (formerly Hi-Fi).<ref name="Coney Island Baby">{{cite web | url = http://pancakesandwhiskey.com/2018/05/11/at-coney-island-baby-the-heart-of-new-york-beats-strong/|title="Coney Island Baby"|date=11 May 2018 }}</ref> Sharp, DiLego and Malin all began their music careers in the east village and were looking to provide a space for live music in their old stomping grounds where music venues had dwindled. A year later the bar changed names to Lola before closing due to Covid in May 2020. During its 2 year run, the 200 person capacity club held intimate shows with rock legends [[Jack White]] ([[The White Stripes|White Stripes]]), [[Billie Joe Armstrong]] ([[Green Day]]), Run ([[Run-DMC|Run DMC]]), [[H.R. (musician)|H.R.]] ([[Bad Brains]]) and hundreds of local and touring acts. Sharp held her own concert there in the fall of 2019 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her debut album, “A Cheap and Evil Girl”.

From 2012 to present, Sharp has had a successful commercial voice over career, lending her voice to such brands as Revlon, Geico, Holiday Inn, Walmart, TJMaxx, Coffee Mate, Fisher Price, and has been the brand voice for E*trade since 2020, including two Super Bowl commercials in 2021 and 2022. She has upcoming scripted drama podcasts for Audible, Wondery and Apple Music set to be released in the fall of 2022.<ref name="ispot">{{cite web | url = https://www.ispot.tv/search/bree-sharp|title=Voice Over}}</ref>

Her single, "Simple Joys (4 Roy & Pris)" feat. [[Simon Le Bon]] was re-released on Spotify on October 11, 2022, in honor of [[Duran Duran]]’s upcoming induction into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]].

== Personal life ==
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Sharp is a [[veganism|vegan]] and [[Animal liberation movement|animal rights activist]].<ref name="Womanrock">{{cite web |last=Benvenuto |first=Andrea |date=n.d. |title=Bree Sharp: Putting the Mew in Musician |url=http://www.womanrock.com/features/bree_sharp.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724121307/http://www.womanrock.com/features/bree_sharp.htm |archivedate=July 24, 2008 |publisher=WomanRock.com}}</ref>


==Discography==
==Discography==
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== Filmography ==

=== Film ===
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!Title
!Role
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|2008
|''Revengers Inc.''
|Dakota West
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|2009
|''[[Off the Ledge]]''
|Janice
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|2013
|''[[Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship]]''
|Erica
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|-
|2015
|[[One More Time (2015 film)|''One More Time'']]
|Singer #2
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|-
|2017
|''Staring at the Sun''
|Mrs. Segal
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|}

=== Television ===
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!Title
!Role
!Notes
|-
|2014
|[[Louie (American TV series)|''Louie'']]
|Jamie
|Episode: "Model"
|}
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Latest revision as of 12:20, 18 September 2024

Bree Sharp
Born (1975-12-17) December 17, 1975 (age 49)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
GenresRock, pop, folk
OccupationsSinger-songwriter, guitarist, actress
InstrumentsVocals, guitar
Years active1999–present
LabelsTrauma Records
Ahimsa Records
Velvet Elk Records
Websitebreesharp.com
beautifulsmallmachines.com

Bree Sharp (born December 17, 1975)[1] is an American musician and actress. As of the 2010s, she is the lead vocalist of the electropop band Beautiful Small Machines.

A native of Philadelphia, Sharp studied theatre at New York University before releasing her first album A Cheap and Evil Girl in 1999, which contained the cult single "David Duchovny." Her second album, More B.S. was released in 2002. Beginning in 2005, Sharp began recording music for anime and cartoons dubbed by 4Kids Entertainment. In 2009, she founded Beautiful Small Machines with long time collaborator Don DiLego. Beautiful Small Machines released the EP Robots in Love in 2009 and the album The DJ Stayed Home in 2014.

Early life and education

[edit]

Sharp was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and learned to play guitar by 15.[1] By 17, she had moved to New York City to study theater at New York University. While in college, Sharp began writing the songs that led to her 1998 record deal with Trauma Records.

Career

[edit]

In July 1999, she released her first album, A Cheap and Evil Girl. The album's first single, "David Duchovny," garnered a cult following both for its musical qualities and its comical references to the titular actor.[citation needed] Will Shivers and Charles Forsch, production assistants and producers on The X-Files, produced a video for "David Duchovny" featuring myriad celebrities crooning the lyrics including Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Whoopi Goldberg, Alex Trebek, David Spade, all four members of KISS, Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny himself and dozens of others.[2] The video was a hit on the Internet and circulated widely in the underground fan community.[3] The song lyrics were quoted in David Duchovny's later Showtime Network TV series, Californication, in 2011.[4]

In the summer of 1999, Sharp played as part of the Lilith Fair, the all-women music festival created by Sarah McLachlan and headlined by McLachlan and Sheryl Crow. In 2000, Sharp toured with Bush and Moby as part of MTV’s “Campus Invasion Tour” in colleges across the United States.[5][circular reference]

Sharp's second single "America," is an examination of contemporary American culture.

In 2001, Sharp left Trauma Records,[1] which at least one music journalist attributed to the company's poor management.[6]

In August 2002, she released her second album, More B.S., on her own label, Ahimsa Records. In September 2004, Sharp released Live at Fez, a recording of a May 2003 unplugged performance in New York City, which included the new song, “Waving Goodbye."

In 2005, Sharp began working as a teleplay writer on Japanese anime import Ojamajo Doremi, dubbed in English as Magical DoReMi that aired as part of Fox’s Saturday morning cartoon block. She also contributed the song "This Side of Paradise" to the dubbed English version of the Pokemon movie Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys and "Team Up!" as the opening theme music for the dubbed English television version of Tokyo Mew Mew, also known as Mew Mew Power. Sharp also sang most of the songs for Mew Mew Power and contributed the song "Where the Girls Are" in the 4Kids Entertainment edit of Winx Club.

In July 2007, Sharp starred as Leila in Vassar College's Powerhouse Summer Theater workshop production of Pete Townshend's The Boy Who Heard Music.

On August 2, 2007, Sharp announced on her MySpace blog that the mixing of her long-delayed third studio album, Robots in Love, was all but complete,[7] and posted four of the new songs ("EastSide," "So Long 2 U," "In the Name of Revenge," and "Robots in Love") on her MySpace music player. In January 2008, she added two more new songs ("Counting Back to 1" and "The Wretched Sound of City Cars") to the player. Sharp ultimately opted to release the new material not as a solo album but under the name Beautiful Small Machines, a band comprising herself and longtime collaborator Don DiLego.

Following the Robots in Love EP, she released the single "Simple Joys (4 Roy & Pris)," which featured vocals from Simon Le Bon, the longtime frontman for Duran Duran. The two became friends when she opened for them at a radio show in St Louis, MO in 2003. The song is an homage to the ill-fated androids from the movie Blade Runner. In 2012 Beautiful Small Machines released their version and music video for the song Paper Planes, a twangy cover of the M.I.A. song.[8] Their next album entitled The DJ Stayed Home was released in 2014.

Sharp made her film debut in the role of Erica in the independent movie Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship, directed by Jeff Kaplan, which also starred Anna Chlumsky, Cristin Milioti and Adrian Martinez.[9]

From 2012- 2014 Sharp was a member of the Upright Citizen’s Brigade sketch comedy house teams “Dinner” and “Ripley” and performed weekly the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City. In 2014, she guest starred on an episode of Louie. The episode also starred Jerry Seinfeld, Victor Garber and Yvonne Strahovski.[10]

In 2018, along with partners Don DiLego, Jesse Malin and Tom Baker, Sharp helped to open the east village bar and music venue, Coney Island Baby on Avenue A (formerly Hi-Fi).[11] Sharp, DiLego and Malin all began their music careers in the east village and were looking to provide a space for live music in their old stomping grounds where music venues had dwindled. A year later the bar changed names to Lola before closing due to Covid in May 2020. During its 2 year run, the 200 person capacity club held intimate shows with rock legends Jack White (White Stripes), Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day), Run (Run DMC), H.R. (Bad Brains) and hundreds of local and touring acts. Sharp held her own concert there in the fall of 2019 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her debut album, “A Cheap and Evil Girl”.

From 2012 to present, Sharp has had a successful commercial voice over career, lending her voice to such brands as Revlon, Geico, Holiday Inn, Walmart, TJMaxx, Coffee Mate, Fisher Price, and has been the brand voice for E*trade since 2020, including two Super Bowl commercials in 2021 and 2022. She has upcoming scripted drama podcasts for Audible, Wondery and Apple Music set to be released in the fall of 2022.[12]

Her single, "Simple Joys (4 Roy & Pris)" feat. Simon Le Bon was re-released on Spotify on October 11, 2022, in honor of Duran Duran’s upcoming induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Personal life

[edit]

Sharp is a vegan and animal rights activist.[13]

Discography

[edit]

Solo

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Album Record Label Release Year
A Cheap and Evil Girl Trauma Records 1999
More B.S. Ahimsa Records 2002
Live at Fez Ahimsa 2004

With Beautiful Small Machines

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Album Record Label Release Year
Robots in Love EP Velvet Elk Records 2009
The DJ Stayed Home Velvet Elk Records 2014

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2008 Revengers Inc. Dakota West
2009 Off the Ledge Janice
2013 Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship Erica
2015 One More Time Singer #2
2017 Staring at the Sun Mrs. Segal

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2014 Louie Jamie Episode: "Model"

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Bree Sharp - Biography". NetGlimpse.com. n.d. Archived from the original on June 4, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
  2. ^ Freydkin, Donna (July 27, 1999). "Bree Sharp owes her fame to a secret agent man". CNN Interactive. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
  3. ^ ""David Duchovny" Video". Breesharp.net. Archived from the original on 11 May 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  4. ^ ""Californication" Clip, 'The Trial', David Duchovny, Natascha McElhone". YouTube. 21 March 2011. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  5. ^ ""Lilith Fair"".
  6. ^ Veale, Nathan (December 6, 2007). "Live Concert Review: Zack Hexum - Victorians Midnight Cafe". Cleverock.com. Archived from the original on April 22, 2009. The [Zack Hexum] album languished in obscurity under Trauma's poor management.
  7. ^ "Bree Sharp | Blog bei Myspace". Archived from the original on 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2010-12-30.
  8. ^ "Paper Planes [MIA] by Beautiful Small Machines [HD]". YouTube. 22 March 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  9. ^ Text archive of Bert And Arnie's Guide to Friendship (official site). Retrieved on June 21, 2013.
  10. ^ ""Louie"". IMDb.
  11. ^ ""Coney Island Baby"". 11 May 2018.
  12. ^ "Voice Over".
  13. ^ Benvenuto, Andrea (n.d.). "Bree Sharp: Putting the Mew in Musician". WomanRock.com. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008.
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