Biography

"A warm, immediate and affecting presence."
    -- Willamette Week (Portland, OR)

Emerging from Los Angeles' burgeoning pop circuit, Wendie's band Box The Walls made a splash with their debut CD "Stuff." Produced by Kevin Moloney (U2, Sinead O'Connor, The Caulfields) and released on Unity Entertainment/Countdown Records, the album received national airplay and charted in both Gavin and Radio & Records. Consistently garnering five-star reviews, CMJ called it "as striking a debut as we've heard in a very long time." About her honest and poetic songwriting, Venice Magazine raved,"Thank God for Wendie Colter!"

After sharing the stage with The Cranberries, The Innocence Mission, Jill Sobule and Stan Ridgway, Wendie is back with a bumper crop of exciting new songs for her first solo CD: Payday! Tracks produced by Rob Laufer (Fiona Apple, Melissa Ferrick, Beatlemania). Repeatedly cited as one of the most refreshing voices within the contemporary music scene, Wendie possesses a vast range and vocal power that profoundly conveys the poetry she writes. Her music has been compared to Aimee Mann, Elvis Costello and Neil Finn (Crowded House), and it's fitting that she sang back up vocals for seminal pop group Squeeze.

Wendie's songs have been heard on national television network shows including "That's Life," and "The Education of Max Bickford," and soundtracks for feature films "Playing Mona Lisa," "Swimming With Sharks," and "Jane White is Sick & Twisted," an independent feature film that she also music supervised.

The daughter of a folk singer and a Julliard trained composer, Wendie says: "I was raised on The Beatles, Bob Dylan and the classics. That's a great education for a songwriter!"