The singer (and daughter of Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan) has a musical style that embraces New York City’s rock and roll history.
The singer has a musical style that embraces New York City’s rock and roll history.Stella Rose Gahan believes deeply in standing on the shoulders of the artists who came before her. There was Patti Smith, the ultimate downtown beatnik: “I read all of her books, I dressed like her, I sat in cafés and wrote for hours, the whole thing,” Gahan, a New York City native herself, tells me on a recent afternoon from her apartment in Manhattan.
Gahan, 23, has plenty of creative folks to revere—her father, Dave Gahan, is the frontman for the 1980s and ’90s electronic band Depeche Mode; her mother, Jennifer Sklias-Gahan, is a filmmaker and the founder of the production company 18 Bleecker Films. But the musician is on her own sonic journey.
Gahan has always drifted through genres. Growing up, her mother played Billie Holiday in the house; her father favored punk. “But my way into singing was definitely through jazz,” Gahan says. “I started out playing the saxophone in my high school band. But that didn’t last very long. I wouldn’t say I was bad, but I wasn't great.
It’s clear that Gahan’s musical work is all her own. “But music was always a way that my family and I communicated together,” she says. And the process is still shared among her closest kin. Her boyfriend, the artist Miles Mullin, helps Gahan work on the visuals for her music . Her father will, at times, serve as mentor—or share some deep cuts with his daughter. “I’m doing a DJ set next month, and he’s been helping me find some old school, punk, art house songs to include,” she says.
“I’m a little bit obsessed with documenting everything, too,” Gahan says, pointing to a bookshelf behind her lined with notebooks. She tucks her fist underneath her chin and a piece of her bright-white blonde hair falls onto her shoulder. “I’m telling my story, my perspective in this lifetime, for my sake, but also for other people—maybe reaching out to someone or saying something that someone else doesn’t know how to say.
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