Ethel Cain

Hayden Silas Anhedönia (born: ), known professionally as Ethel Cain and White Silas, is an American singer-songwriter and artist born in Tallahassee, Florida and living in Enterprise, Alabama.
In mid-2017, Cain began experimenting with writing, recording, and producing her own music inspired by ethereal Gregorian chant. After releasing various mixtapes and EPs for streaming, as well as sites like SoundCloudhttps://soundcloud.com/herwhitesilas and Tumblr, she adopted a more alternative sound and began using the moniker Ethel Cain in mid-2019. Cain's music deals with nostalgic and Southern gothic themes, such as poverty, drug addiction, domestic violence, death, and intergenerational trauma. Her music is associated with the genres of ambient, alternative rock, and dream pop.
==Early Life==
Cain was raised in Florida's Taylor County. Her dad served as a deacon, she was raised in a Southern Baptist home, and she was active in choir from a early age. In addition to choir, Hayden's early piano instruction and participation in musical theater piqued her interest in music. At the age of twelve, she came out as gay to her family, and at sixteen, she left the religion. She came out as a transgender woman in the public eye at the age of twenty.https://www.strikemagazines.com/blog-2-1/a-quick-rundown-on-mother-cain Classic rock, alternative, country, and gospel music are some of Cain's musical inspirations.
== Career ==
In 2017, Anhedönia started trying out making choral music with heavy reverb on GarageBand while thinking about joining the film school at Florida State University.https://towsontalisman.com/4428/entertainment/women-in-media-ethel-cain/ Between 2017 and 2018, she shared her projects with a limited audience of friends and followers on social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram using different pseudonyms. This allowed her to experiment with various sounds and production techniques, resulting in a collection of innovative mixtapes and EP's.
In 2019, after releasing her first single as Ethel Cain called "Bruises", she met artist Nicole Dollanganger online and was the opening act for Dollanganger during the "Heart Shaped Bed"https://nicoledollanganger.fandom.com/wiki/Headlining_Tour_(2019) tour in Chicago.
In September of 2019, she dropped a short album of tracks called Carpet Bed, marking her debut EP as Cain.
After dropping her Golden Age EP in December 2019, she received support from Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, an artist who commended Cain's "sophisticated songwriting skills and grasp of melody".
In January 2020, rapper Lil Aaron found Cain based on advice from Wicca Phase Springs Eternal. During a performance in Los Angeles with Edith Underground and Lil Bo Weep, Cain was asked by Aaron to visit her publishing company Prescription Songs, resulting in Cain signing with them shortly thereafter.
Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cain was confined to his house in isolation. In August 2020, she relocated from Florida to a church near Richmond, Indiana to complete the recording of her debut EP as a signed artist, called Inbred. The EP, which Cain wrote, produced, and mixed entirely on their own, veered away from Golden Age's heavier dream-pop sound and moved towards a cleaner, more alt-rock influenced sound.
In February of 2021, Cain dropped her initial single with her new publishing deal, called "Michelle Pfeiffer" featuring Lil Aaron.https://open.spotify.com/3FCYSWNVmpjTCiwzJwbMAC Her third EP titled "Inbred" was announced alongside a collaboration with Wicca Phase Springs Eternal. It was first debuted on Paper and received coverage on Pitchfork,https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/ethel-cain-michelle-pfeiffer-ft-lil-aaron/ Billboard,https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-pride-albums-2021/ Nylon,https://www.nylon.com/entertainment/ethel-cain-hayden-anhedonia-interview and The Fader.https://www.thefader.com/2021/06/22/ethel-cain-interview-gods-country-video-premiere
On March 18, another single titled "Crush" was released, followed by the premiere of a third single called "Unpunishable" on Apple Music Radio 1 with Zane Lowe on April 15, 2021. "Gibson Girl"The title is about Charles Dana Gibson and the women he sketched, who are often seen as the epitome of American beauty ideals. was released as a single by Cain on March 17, 2022, with her debut album "Preacher's Daughter"https://www.lsureveille.com/klsu/reviews/the-story-behind-ethel-cains-preachers-daughter/article_36e67a3a-5f12-11ed-9dc1-03ee7efd931b.html released on May 12, 2022.
Ethel's single "American Teenager" is one of the lead singles from her debut album "Preacher's Daughter". This music video is one of her most viewed on her official YouTube artist channel. 
The record was launched on her personal "Daughters of Cain" record label and includes thirteen tracks. The album is included in the "Ethel Cain Cinematic Universe".https://daughtersofcain.fandom.com/wiki/Ethel_Cain_Cinematic_Universe thumb|267x267px
==Trivia==
*Hayden was supposed to go on America's Got Talent on December 2019, but it ended up not happening for unknown reasons.https://lazyprotagonistpublishing.wordpress.com/2019/05/20/lazy-protagonist-podcast-episode-2/
*Florence Welch is Hayden's favorite artist, and a big inspiration especially in the beginning of her career - Florence was the first driving force that encouraged her to become a singer: she wanted to be just like Florence. They even collaborated on a song called "Morning Elvis".https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZYuINHuDHnrpLj0FNE4so?si=d6d29a707d534a43 They have only released the live version of this single as of now.
*Nicole Dollanganger is another huge inspiration for Hayden and one of her favorites too.
==References==
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