Paula Anne Kelley, born on September 10, 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts, is an American indie pop rock singer-songwriter. She began playing piano at age three and later became an orchestral harpsichordist by high school. Her musical career started in the 1990s with the band Drop Nineteens before she left to pursue a solo career in songwriting. Her debut album, Nothing/Everything, was released in 2001 on Stop, Pop, and Roll Records in the US and Caraway in Japan. In 2003, Kelley released her second album, The Trouble with Success or How You Fit Into the World. She also collaborated with various bands, including Boy Wonder, Banquet Hall, Hot Rod and The Misfit Toys. Twenty years after Some Suckers Life, Part 1 (2006), she released her fourth full-length, Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out.
