Hamilton College, along with co-sponsor CAB (Campus Activities Board), is hosting a Hamilton House Call with Chelsea Cutler on May 7, 2020 at 8:00pm EDT. The virtual Q&A and live mini-performance will be streamed on a Zoom Webinar. The event was booked with

Up All Night Music Group

, Hamilton alumni Josh Rothstein ’19’s concert promotions company.

Chelsea Cutler, a fellow “NESCAC-er”, is an Amherst College alumna who hails from Westport, Connecticut. Cutler is a self-made, gold-certified singer-songwriter who first started gaining traction as an artist on online streaming service Soundcloud. To date, Cutler has had over 750 million streams on various music streaming platforms.

Her breakthrough song “Your Shirt” was released in 2017 and garnered almost 100 million streams on Spotify; the song also reached 3rd place on SoundCloud’s Pop Chart. Cutler released her first EP,

Snow in October

, shortly after, with three singles earning their spots on the

Billboard

Dance/Electronic Chart: “Slow Down Love” (#42), “The Shine” (#50), and “Not OK” (#8).

In May 2019, Cutler released a collaborative EP,

brent

, with fellow artist Jeremy Zucker. The lead single from that EP, titled “you were good to me,” was certified Gold by the RIAA on April 3, 2020.

Her first official mixtape,

Sleeping With Roses,

was entirely independently produced and highly acclaimed; Cutler’s accompanying headline tour sold out within a week and she later released a follow-up mixtape,

Sleeping With Roses II

, along with a second world tour.

Cutler’s rise to recognition earned her a record deal with Republic Records in 2019, through which she released her debut album

How to Be Human

on January 17, 2020. The album peaked at #23 on the

Billboard

200 and #34 on the

Billboard

Mainstream Top 40 airplay chart.

How to Be Human

has received critical acclaim —

Beyond the Stage

magazine described the album as a “perfect, raw body of work” — and the single “Sad Tonight” has received particular praise. Cutler made her television debut performing “Sad Tonight” live on

Late Night with Seth Meyers

in January 2020, and completed her

How to Be Human

tour on March 2020, playing the biggest rooms of her career.

Building off the success of her debut album, Cutler was set to perform at Coachella this year, but the event was postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Pre-registration will be required with students’ hamilton.edu email address to access the event. Hamilton students can pre-register here:

https://tinyurl.com/chelseaathamilton

. Make sure to tune in!