Dutch ReBelle

Vanda Bernadeau, professionally known as Dutch ReBelle, is a rapper from Boston, Massachusetts.^[1]

Early life

ReBelle was born in Hinche, Haiti. She was raised in Mattapan and Milton. ReBelle began rapping at age 9. In college, she decided to pursue a music career. ReBelle was discovered while doing locs at the house of a customer whose roommate had a radio show, when she rapped spontaneously on air.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Career

Regarding her stage name, ReBelle has stated, “When I was in high school, it kind of just happened that people started calling me Von Dutch after the trucker hat line. Then it got shortened to Dutch in college, and when I started taking music seriously, I added the ReBelle to the end. It was an ode to my country, but it was also from the Lauryn Hill song “I Find It Hard To Say (Rebel)”. ReBelle played her first gig at Boston University. She then went on to perform at the House of Blues and the Hard Rock Café.^[2]

In 2012, ReBelle performed at the Female Hip-Hop Honors in Los Angeles.^[2] In 2014, she was named Boston Music Awards’s Hip-Hop Artist of the Year.^[7] In 2015, she performed at the first Boston Hip Hop Fest in a decade.^[8] In 2017, ReBelle's song, "Rude Boys" was featured in Rock Band 4.^[9] She's rapped at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,^[10] Museum of Science's planetarium,^[11][12] and Boston Cannabis Week's music festival.^[13][14] In February 2020, she opened for Rapsody at The Sinclair.^[15] In February 2023, ReBelle attended the Grammy Awards for the first time. She is a member of The Recording Academy.^[16]

KillerBoomBox.com wrote, "If Ghostface Killah and Lauryn had a baby, it would be Dutch."^[2] She was named Boston's Best Music Artist of 2018.^[17] WBUR dubbed her album, Bang Bang, one of the best local hip-hop albums in 2018.^[18] In 2020, Bandcamp wrote, "ReBelle lays bars over trap beats, with a hard edge comparable to Memphis’s Gangsta Boo or Diamond from Atlanta’s Crime Mob."^[19]

ReBelle has stated she is often the only woman in the room in hip-hop spaces and has to create her own space within these environments.^[20] She has said working in a music industry dominated by men is much easier than surviving other traumas she's experienced.^[21] She has faced discrimination when trying to book Boston venues as a hip-hop artist.^[22]

Discography

As primary artist

Albums

Title	Year	Source
Bang Bang	2018	^[23]
ReBelle Diaries	2014	^[24]
Vodou	2013	^[2]
Married to the Music	2012	^[2]

Extended plays

Title	Year	Source
No Stems	2017	^[25]
Kiss Kiss	2015	^[26]

Singles

Title	Year	Source
“Gooniez”	2022	^[27]
"Earthwormz"	2021	^[28]
“Stony”	2021	^[27]
"Big Zoe"	2019	^[29]
"Playin'"	2019	^[30]
"Maria"	2019	^[31]
"Supafly"	2018	^[32]
"I Can't"	2017	^[33]
"Stripper"	2017	^[34]
"Mix It Up"	2016	^[35]
"Not Sleeping"	2016	^[36]
"Goddess"	2014	^[37]
“Sunday Morning”	2013	^[2]
"Stop It"	2011	^[38]

As featured artist

Albums

Title	Artist	Year	Source
Best Of The Bean Vol. 1	Compilation	2016	^[39]
Beast	Compilation	2016	^[40]

Singles

Title	Artist	Year	Source
“CHOP”	Shellz	2022	^[41]
"Freestyle"	Chef Bogey	2022	^[42]
"Money Diaries"	King Fiya	2022	^[43]
"Fashion Week"	C. Wells	2022	^[44]
“BLUYELLO”	Miranda Rae	2020	^[45]
"What You Want"	Famous Nobodies	2013	^[2]

References

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2. "Lyricist Dutch ReBelle on cusp of a breakout year | Dorchester Reporter". www.dotnews.com. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
3. "Boston's ReBelle braces herself for the big time". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
4. "Northampton to host its second Power of Truths Arts & Education Festival". Daily Hampshire Gazette. 2023.
5. "Local Female Musicians and Their Upcoming Boston Shows". Exhale Lifestyle. 2018-10-26. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
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9. "'Rock Band' Gamers Can Now Play Songs By Boston's Indie Musicians". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
10. "Bilal Brings Creative Resistance To The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
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12. "10 Concerts To Get To This Winter In Boston". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
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19. "In Boston, Women and Non-Binary Rappers Own the Hip Hop Scene". Bandcamp Daily. 2020-05-12. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
20. "City Scenes: How Boston's DIY Hip-Hop Community Is Fending For Itself". NPR. 2020.
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28. "Dutch ReBelle delivers an earworm with 'EarthWormz'". Vanyaland. 2021-10-19. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
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32. "Dutch ReBelle kicks it '70s-style in her new video 'SupaFly'". Vanyaland. 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
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36. "After a restless night, Dutch ReBelle drops new track 'Not Sleeping' in response to election". Vanyaland. 2016-11-09. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
37. notupstate (2014-10-12). "Watch Dutch ReBelle's "Goddess" Video - The Source". Retrieved 2023-07-22.
38. Rys, Dan (2014-09-04). "Dutch ReBelle Hits The Club With Fred The Godson In "Stop It" Video - XXL". XXL Mag. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
39. "Hustle & Glow: Indystry's 'Best Of The Bean Vol. 1' illuminates Boston's hip-hop scene". Vanyaland. 2016-01-26. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
40. "'Beast' of a Comp: Behind the mission of Matt McArthur and The Record Co". Vanyaland. 2016-12-14. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
41. "Shellz readies a revolution with Dutch ReBelle in the video for 'CHOP'". Vanyaland. 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
42. Dutch ReBelle Freestyle, 2022-11-11, retrieved 2023-07-22
43. "Dutch ReBelle and King Fiya record their riches with 'Money Diaries'". Vanyaland. 2022-03-11. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
44. Fashion Week - Single by C. Wells & Dutch Rebelle, 2022-02-10, retrieved 2023-07-22
45. "Sound On Music Festival: An evening with R&B and neo-soul singer Miranda Rae and friends". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2023-07-22.