Sometimes, the creative voice inside us does not disappear. It simply becomes quiet. For Michellar, that voice was music. Long before she became known as a visual artist, Michellar discovered songwriting as a teenager. At just 15 years old, she…
For Michellar, creativity has never belonged to just one medium. Sometimes an emotion becomes a song. Sometimes it becomes a painting. Sometimes the two begin to overlap, creating a deeper expression of the same feeling. As a singer-songwriter and visual…
When you hear Michellar’s music, it is easy to focus on the songs—the melodies, the lyrics, the voice, and the emotions they carry. But behind every song is a much bigger story. Michellar is not simply a singer-songwriter. She is…
There’s a version of Michelle Bond’s story that most people never hear — the one that begins not with a stage, but with silence. Forty years of it. Long before she became known as Michellar, the San Francisco-based singer-songwriter and…
Some turning points announce themselves. Others arrive quietly, disguised as an ordinary moment — until you look back and realize everything shifted from there. For Michelle Bond, known today as Michellar, that moment happened on the walls of a museum.…
Some songs are written to entertain. Others are written to survive something. “Warrior,” the powerful new single from Michellar, belongs firmly to the second category. A Song Born From Real Life “Warrior” isn’t a song built around a catchy hook…
Ask most musicians how a song begins, and they’ll talk about a melody, a lyric, or a feeling. Ask Michellar, and there’s a good chance the answer starts with a paintbrush. For Michelle Bond — the San Francisco-based artist behind…