Odessa Chen attracted international attention with her debut record, One Room Palace. Since then, she has toured internationally, been interviewed on NPR, MTV Chi and Pacific Fusion TV, and her work has appeared in numerous independent films, compilations, and radio stations.

She has played everywhere, from warehouses to The Great American Music Hall, Maritime Hall, and Bottom of the Hill. She has shared stages with Damien Jurado, the Microphones, Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), Mirah, Mia Doi Todd, Jolie Holland, and Vienna Teng and appears on releases by Thee More Shallows, Charles Atlas and Dineh (singing in Finnish). She was a member of Thee More Shallows from 2004­-2005 and Troia (SF Weekly Music Award) from 1995-1999.

She has studied classical voice and cello and sung in various early classical music choirs, but is a self-taught guitarist. She grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. She is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.