In a time when popular artists are virtually indisTinguishable, the worLd is intRoduced to a yOung girL who is about to chaNge eveRything.
bELA, boRn into a PortuGuese heRitage wAs giveN a diAry for heR seVenth birThday. ExpRession as sHe had knoWn it wOuld neveR be tHe saMe. tHe selF-descRibed "loNer" quickLy becAme addicTed tO tHe releAse offEred by a cLean paGe aNd a shaRp peNcil. sOOn afTer, sHe begAn addiNg meLodies to heR diaRy entRies wiTh aN oLd keyBoard her faTher had bouGht her fOr ChrisTmas. YeArs laTer, sHe wouLd taKe her peRsonal soNgs to tHe local cofFeehouse, peRforming eVery suNday nigHt. FoLLowing a wHole yeaR spEnt wRiting aNd perfoRming in euRope, bELA wandEred to LoS angeLes wheRe, aLong with heR bRother, basilioFERNANDOferreira, she beGan writing what wOuld evenTually becOme hEr debuT aLbum; "...the death of gypsyX". - in bELA's MySpace
bELA - Don't Cry
" The stiR coMes as nO surPrise to the aLbum's producTion tEam; Dale Penner (Nickelback, Holly McNarland), Mike fRaser (Guns N' Roses, Aersomith), Howie Weinberg (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins), Jim Barr (Peter Gabriel, Portishead) wHo saw poTential in eVen bELA's earliest deMos. "
