Nurtured by a background in classical music and the Great American Songbook, Chantelle Constable’s supple soprano voice has taken her from studio to stage, from Kansas City to Atlanta to Budapest to Salzburg, from a 900-year-old church in Dobřichovice, Czech Republic, to starring as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl. 

While her peers were dreaming of the Backstreet Boys, young Chantelle was swooning to Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. Her artistic aesthetic can be traced to the 1963 brightly-colored animated film "Gay Purr-ee" featuring the voices of Judy Garland and Robert Goulet as singing cats in Paris. Yes, singing cats in Paris. Chantelle frequently watched classic MGM musicals at her grandparents' house and also learned old country standards such as "The Wabash Cannonball" and "Your Cheatin' Heart" at her grandfather's knee (though country music would not be her genre of choice, it kindled a flame for old Americana and folk music). Her penchant for classical music came through a juvenile love of "silly noises" and making her tiny voice sound "big and operatic" - then when she discovered artists such as child star Charlotte Church and the internationally renowned soprano Renee Fleming through her local library, she realized, "I can make these 'silly noises' and people will applaud!" 

At age five, Chantelle began studying piano, picked up guitar along the way, and at age ten joined a local youth choir, starting private voice lessons soon after. Chantelle has been a devoted chorister since that inaugural experience, most notably singing with the Flint Hills Masterworks Chorale from age 16 and touring Europe with them as a featured soloist in 2009. After graduating high-school Chantelle took a few gap years for travel, including visiting New York for the 3-month long Leonard Bernstein Festival in 2008, then enrolled at Kansas State University to study classical voice. As part of an opera scenes workshop, she performed at the National Opera Association's annual convention in Atlanta in 2010. 

In 2011, as lead singer and keyboard player, Chantelle joined the four-piece prog rock band Lithus, which later reformed as three-piece synth rock group Echopod, who released an EP titled "Artifacts" in 2015. With the drummer, Justin Trowbridge*, she formed "plainsbilly sophisticate" folk duo (fka) Hotel Gypsies. 

After making her stage debut in West Side Story in 2010, Chantelle's musical theatre career took off when she landed the lead role of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl in 2012. Other notable roles include Pitti-Sing in The Mikado and Toby in Sweeney Todd. Through 2018, Chantelle has also been a member of the pit orchestra for several shows, including The Rocky Horror Show and Jekyll & Hyde among many others. 

In 2019, at 30 years old, Chantelle many irons in the fire, including an album of American folk music, romantic art songs, and original compositions / arrangements by pianist Stacy Fahrion, known professionally as "Whimsically Macabre." In addition, Chantelle has an ongoing project of "100 year old songs" and the first EP -- "Songs from 1916" -- is now available on Bandcamp. She is currently writing original "cinematic folk ballads," one example of which is the new single "Together" (August 2019) which features her good friend, Natasha Barbieri, editor of Classical Crossover Magazine, to which Chantelle is a frequent contributor. 

Chantelle currently lives as a "jaded rouée** and gay divorcée" in Manhattan, KS. She loves sushi, electroswing, and "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell." She is a cat-mom, hat-knitter, and champagne-popper***. She would like to move to NYC and collect "Sad Young Men™" like a proper Beatnik den mother while writing songs about her personal existential crisis. Her dream vacation is Iceland and her dream job is Secret Librarian. She attempts to be esoteric but mostly succeeds at being silly. 

* who plays viola, ukulele, banjo, and accordion in addition to drums 
** not so much 
*** catch that Gay Purr-ee reference? Hint: "The Money Cat"