🎤 Kelsey Lu

About

Kelsey Lu (born Kelsey Elizabeth McJunkins, 1991) is an American singer, cellist, and composer from Charlotte, North Carolina, whose music weaves classical cello, avant-pop, and dark electronic textures into something that resists easy genre labels. Raised in a strict Jehovah's Witness household, she began studying classical composition at age six and later trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts before relocating to New York and then Los Angeles. Her 2019 debut album Blood earned widespread critical acclaim, and she has since collaborated with artists including Solange, Florence + the Machine, Yves Tumor, and Sampha. In June 2026 she released So Help Me God, her long-awaited second album, via Dirty Hit.