Elle Alpha is the alter ego of singer and songwriter Ella Stoffers and her band in Groningen. Elle Alpha makes blues pop; a combination of melodic pop songs and bluesy rock songs. Ella shows both strength and vulnerability in her songwriting and her singing. The band accompanies her strong, moving voice perfectly and brings her songs to life. With this band she already gained some local fame by playing at venues such as De Spieghel and Simplon, and at local radio stations. Elle Alpha reached the finals of the Rode Oortjes Festival 2011 and is playing on the main stage of the Gideon Festival 2011 on June 10th. Ella was born and raised in Maastricht, in the south of the Netherlands. She started her musical career at eight years old by taking singing lessons at the local music school, which she continued until her eighteenth. Throughout her youth, she performed with many bands, among which Quiver, for which she wrote her first songs. In 2008 she released a solo EP called ‘Search Before You Find’. In the same year she got accepted to study vocals at the prestigious Rock academy in Tilburg. Out here she has learned a lot about all aspects of music; from technical skills to theoretical and historical knowledge, but also knowing how to play the crowd while performing and how to do business in the music industry. However, after an eventful year Ella decided to move north and start the band Elle Alpha while also studying Arts, Culture & Media at the university in Groningen.