Woodstock raised, Nashville honed, and Laurel Canyon inspired, 22-year-old Stella Prince creates soul-baring indie folk pop representing the next generation of artists.

The prodigious singer-songwriter from Woodstock, NY- who first began voice lessons at age four and hasn't looked back since- now ranks among the most exciting young voices in folk music.

In just one year, Stella has performed at events with Elle Magazine at Cannes Lions, Spin Magazine at South by Southwest (named as one of the best performers at the festival by No Depression), John Prine’s “You Got Gold” Benefit, Maren Morris’ Tribute to Dolly Parton, Save The Music, Music Row Magazine’s Rising Women on the Row, Anzie Blue New Years Eve (live on CNN), Linda Perry’s event at Live in The Vineyard Goes Country, She is The Music, Lucchese Boots at CMA Fest, Amplify Arts Project, Hollywood and Mind’s Mental Health Summit, Musicians on Call, Nashville’s salute to Bob Dylan, invited by the Recording Academy to film an episode of the GRAMMY's "Reimagined" Series, a panelist on NPR Senior Music Critic Ann Powers’ “Next Gen Artists” panel at Folk Alliance 2026, a panelist on the Recording Academy’s GRAMMY House panel on independent artists, was part of a commercial that aired on the 2026 Golden Globes, recorded a song for the soundtrack of Paramount’s new film “By Any Means” (2026), and contributed the lead track for the Hallmark Channel original movie “Adventures in Love and Birding” (2025). She has walked the red carpet at the Grammys, Variety Hitmakers, Billboard Women in Music Awards, Elle’s Women in Entertainment Awards, Variety Power of Women Nashville, She is the Music’s Women Sharing the Spotlight Honors, the Americana Music Awards, the CMA Awards, Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Hollywood Gala, the RIAA Awards, events with Hermes, Hello Sunshine, Pollstar, Sony Electronics, IEBA, Jump Global, Hit-boy, Randy Travis, Trisha Yearwood, Post Malone, James Blake, Big X Tha Plug, and Timothee Chalamet.

Over the years, Stella has independently booked herself over 1,000+ shows throughout the US, with five tours in Europe, breaking records as the youngest artist at Nashville’s Americana Fest and Tin Pan South festivals, Ireland’s Your Roots Are Showing Festival, France’s Bluegrass in La Roche Festival, England’s Long Road Festival, the Greenwich Village Folk Festival, the North Carolina Folk Festival, and California’s Sawdust Festival. With sold out summer residencies at LA’s Hotel Cafe and London’s Green Note, to opening up for folk icon Judy Collins, recent shows at iconic venues like LA’s Miracle Theater and Woodstock’s Levon Helm Studios, and headlining New York’s Mercury Lounge, Nashville's Bluebird Cafe and Whiskey Jam, Greenwich Village’s Cafe Wha and The Bitter End, and Hollywood’s Troubadour and Viper Room, the sky is the limit.

Notable press includes being named Pandora’s “Fresh Cuts” Artist of the Month, Tidal’s “Favorite New Release”, No Depression’s “Best Albums of the Year”, The Times’ Artist of the Week, UCLA Radio’s Artist of the Month, and interviews with Forbes, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Variety, Grammy.com, The Associated Press, NPR, iHeart Radio, PBS, CBS Channel-5, NBC WSMV-4, FOX-17, and ABC WKRN-TV. With Stella’s music played on over 300+ radio stations worldwide, recent airplay includes Sirius XM's The Coffeehouse, NPR's All Songs Considered, BBC Sounds, Sirius XM's The Village, and Nashville’s legendary WSM Radio. With a #1 EP on Folk Radio and charting positions on the Americana Albums Charts, the Alternative Country Charts, and the North American College and Community Radio Charts already under her belt, Stella completed a college radio tour with interviews at Emory University’s WMRE, UC Berkeley’s KALX, University of Southern California’s KXSC, Loyola Marymount University’s KXLU, and San Diego State’s KCR College Radio. Photoshoots with the iconic Lynn Goldsmith and Diego Uchitel, and two music videos with support from CMT, Heartland, Ditty TV, and The Country Network. In 2023, Stella founded an all-female showcase in partnership with Change the Conversation, creating opportunities for women in a genre where they are often underrepresented. She recently partnered up with Book More Women to book over 20 female opening acts on her summer tour and collaborated with 10 female-owned small businesses to do fan meet and greets.

Stella has spoken at universities such as Berklee College of Music, Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music Hit Songwriters Series, Belmont University’s Curb College of Entertainment, NYU Los Angeles, George Washington University, Tulane University, MTSU’s College of Media & Entertainment, UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, Philadelphia’s Drexel University, Chicago’s Columbia College, USC’s Thornton School of Music, Diablo Valley College, a mentor for the Americana Music Association, and Women in Music’s Featured Speaker, discussing how to build a DIY career as an independent artist. She was recently welcomed as a Voting Member in the Recording Academy’s New Member Class of 2026.

Stella attended her first concert at three years old, watching folk icon Levon Helm perform. By four, she was asking her parents for voice lessons, a manager, and a career in music. "For my entire life, I've known exactly what I wanted," she says. At seven, she joined Bard College's intense, conservatory-style music program, studying music theory, piano, guitar, voice, and performance alongside students often decades older than herself. The experience shaped both her musicianship and her understanding of what a life in music could look like. Her songs draw from a wide range of influences, from Joni Mitchell to Karen Carpenter, Judy Garland, and Patsy Cline. Stella fast-tracked her early education, graduating high school at fifteen and completing two years of college by age sixteen.

Now based in LA, Stella continues to write with iconic songwriters like Liz Rose (Taylor Swift), Matraca Berg (youngest inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame), Steve Dean (Dolly Parton), Lynn Chater (Tanya Tucker), Stephanie Chapman (Bonnie Raitt), and Brent Baxter (Alan Jackson), record at studios from Muscle Shoals' Fame Studios, LA’s Chaplin Studios and Village Studios to Nashville’s Sound Stage Studios and Blackbird Studios, tour, and build her fanbase (100,000 followers and over 2,000,000 streams on Spotify alone) while preparing for the release of her debut full-length album in 2027, which includes an unreleased song by the legendary Diane Warren, produced by 3x Grammy-nominated Dr. Blum (Bebe Rexha, Twenty-One Pilots), and recorded in Iceland’s oldest recording studio, Hljóðriti. A short documentary on the making of the album is in the works and set for a 2026 release.