Chrystel

Chrystel (Chris-tell) believed, at the age of nine, that her sultry voice and poetic penmanship would one day carry her beyond the suburbs of Salt Lake County, Utah. In 2019, after a dream-chasing move from her Utah home to Atlanta, Georgia, the bilingual, singer-songwriter earned songwriting credits on both Dreamville’s GRAMMY-nominated hip-hop compilation, Revenge of The Dreamers III, and Baby Rose’s critically-acclaimed R&B debut, To Myself.


As the middle child of two parents from the Ivory Coast, Chrystel grew up on music from West African Pop, Congolese Rumba, Soul and everything in-between. All the wide-ranging sounds from her childhood help to develop a brand of percussion-driven, afro-fusion. Instead of slower, spacy tempos, Chrystel leans into club-ready, electronic-inspired, African rhythms that weave together Afrobeats and Coupé-décalé―the dance music that originated from her homeland―soundscapes with contemporary pop songwriting.


Although the multifaceted singer-songwriter cites iconic, genre-blending artists like Belgian musician Stromae and Barbadian songstress Rihanna as influences, Chrystel also credits her father, who advised, “If you can make people move, you’ll have them.” Music that will make you move is the best description for the style of Pop that Chrystel offers her listeners.  - Travis "Yoh" Phillips of DJ Booth