"Her voice is the main point – She
talks with a broken heart – Her voice
lutes brokenly like a heart lost,
musically too, like in a lost grove, it’s
almost too much to bear sometimes..."

— Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

The voice of a long-forgotten ingenue
ghosts forth from a wax cylinder on
display at the museum of shattered
dreams, the library of the lachrymose,
the archive of lost hope...

Chantelle Constable writes hymns
for the devoutly melancholy, anthems
for anti-heroines, and lullabies for the
betrayed and broken-hearted.

“Cinematic pop” of the 1920s,
Jenny Lind soaked in bourbon, and
prairie fairy changeling gothic elegies.

Listen now!

• Spotify (selected tracks)

• SoundCloud*

• Bandcamp*

*free / name your price downloads

ABOUT: BIOGRAPHY

Chantelle Constable started piano lessons at age five and joined a children’s choir at ten. Her earliest
musical influence was the 1962 animated film “Gay Purr-ee,” starring Judy Garland and featuring the
music of Harold Arlen and E. Y. “Yip” Harburg. Over the years, this expanded to classic Hollywood
musicals, the Great American songbook, and operatic sopranos such as Renée Fleming and Kathleen Battle.

She sang with the Flint Hills Masterworks Chorale for many years, touring Europe with them at age 19,
and briefly studying opera at Kansas State University. In her 20s, Chantelle fronted vocals and keys for
prog rock quartet “Lithus” and synth rock trio “Echopod,” as well as an acoustic folk duo (on guitar),
which played variously in the Manhattan / Lawrence / Wichita (KS) and Kansas City areas.

Her musical theatre debut was pulling double-duty as Graziella and an unnamed “Shark girl” in a small-
cast production of “West Side Story,” then she landed her ‘breakout role’ as Fanny Brice in “Funny Girl,”
going on to play Pitti-Sing in “The Mikado” and Tobias Ragg in “Sweeney Todd.”

After a devastating divorce in 2018 and catastrophic betrayal by those she considered friends, Chantelle
was ostracized from her local music scene. During this time darkened by depression and abandonment, she
began to focus on writing her own material, channeling the pain and heartbreak into songs with the
musical sensibility of 1970s Laurel Canyon folk and influences such as Jennifer Knapp and Sarah Slean,
while weaving in threads of dark cabaret, Victorian music hall, and Tin Pan Alley, creating “old music for a
new era.” Her piano-driven ballads are carried by a voice with unique chiaroscuro, described as “clear
flowing water” or “a crystal bell” — the voice of a choirgirl from hell; an angel in a dive bar.

The Music

WHO + WHAT + WHY

"Harrie" and all "Harrie HQ" spaces is a social-musical
experiment, hearkening back to the DIY ethos of MySpace and
independent music in the 2000s, created by Kansas musician
Chantelle Constable. "Harrie" is nobody, and she can be
anybody, unfiltered and unboxed. Harrie HQ operates
(primarily) outside of the algorithm of social media, and under
the principle that music and art should be given freely from the
heart of the creator, and not monetized. You will never be
asked to give so much as your email* to download any and all
mp3s (of public domain or my original music**), and nothing
will be behind a subscription or paywall. If you want to show
your appreciation for the artist, you can Venmo me
@Chantelle-Constable or CashApp $ChantelleConstable07.
That's it. No catch.

* Bandcamp does ask for an email, even if the download is free.
Sorry about that!

** I do believe in respecting the copyright of other artists, so if I
record a "cover song" by a modern artist (ie, not in the public
domain) then it will be uploaded via a streaming method rather
than direct download.

SONGS

(right click & "save link as" to download)

— I Wish I Had Someone to Love Me.mp3 (10/02/25)

(early 20th c. traditional / Irish folk song, guitar & vocals by
Chantelle Constable)

— Ravenin' Heart.mp3 [demo] (06/01/25)

(original song, music/lyrics & piano/vox by Chantelle
Constable)

— Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby.mp3 (05/24/25)

(from the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?")

(vocal harmonies via TC Helicon VoiceLive Touch)

— O Lovely Appearance of Death.mp3 (01/19/25)

("A Funeral Hymn for a Believer," Charles Wesley; a cappella
w/ reverb)

— The Parting Glass.mp3 (11/04/24)

(Irish folk song, a cappella with vocal fx)

— Idumea.mp3 (Oct 2024)

(Sacred harp hymn, a cappella with vocal fx)