Alexx Calise

Alexx Calise (born June 28, 1985), is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She is best known for her solo work and her other musical project (with songwriting partner Dennis Morehouse), BBatfarm. Calise is best known for her 2010 song "Cry" which received heavy rotation after being featured on reality TV show Dance Moms the following year.

Biography Alexx Calise was born on June 28, 1985, in Staten Island, New York, but grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. An avid writer, she began playing the guitar at age 11 to emulate her father, who is also a musician. Calise began pursuing her professional music career at the age of 14.

She now resides in Los Angeles, California, where she writes and performs her own solo material, and pens songs for other high-profile artists. Calise's original music has appeared in several television shows such as Dance Moms, Dance Moms: Miami, Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition, Grimm, NY Ink, Last Call with Carson Daly, One Tree Hill, Next, Tough Love, CrossFit Games and more. Her song, "Release Me" was also chosen as the title track for the 2011 film, L.A., I Hate You, starring William Forsythe, Malcolm McDowell and Deedee Pfieffer, which was distributed by Universal Pictures. She also lent her voice to a Coachella Music Festival short (music written by Matt O'Malley of human) directed by Sam O'Hare.

Calise is best known for her song, "Cry", a ballad which she wrote in fifteen minutes in her apartment during a low point in her life that was released in 2010 as a track on her second studio album In Avanti, the song was featured on Lifetime's Dance Moms in 2011, where it enjoyed heavy rotation and has gone on to sell hundreds of thousands of units independently. Outloud Multimedia, Hard Drivin' Radio, Paul and Young Ron of Big 106 FM, Empowerment4women.com, Broward New Times, Sun-Sentinel, Miami Community News, and more. She was also interviewed in the nationally distributed how-to/method book, How to Succeed as a Female Musician (Alfred Publishing), which features such notable musicians as Lisa Loeb and the Donnas), and more.

Charity work Calise is involved with Wear Your Music, an organization that produces jewelry from high-profile artists' guitar strings. All sales from Calise's bracelets are donated to the Brain Trauma Foundation.

Discography "Pull It (Bullet)" (single) (2007) "Morning Pill" (2007) "In Avanti" (2010) "No Vampires In Gilroy" (2011) (with other group, Sound of Cancer—now Batfarm) "Outta Here Alive" (single) (2012) "AC3" EP (2012) "Home Again" (single) (2013) "All Night Long" (single) (2013) "The Catalyst: B-Sides" (2015) "Addition by Subtraction" (2015) "Breathe" (single) (2017) "Rise" feat. Sensitive Robot (single) (2019)