Spending most of her days exploring, absorbing and educating herself in these art forms including seven years combining a college diploma and a university degree at Humber College for music, 10 years of performance experience and six years of teaching and performing dance.ĭuring lockdown in early 2021, Valentina made a goal to write a song every day in January – through this process some gems floated to the surface and over the year flourished to what has become the MOONBEAN’s debut album MOONTUNES. Music and dance have been a passion since day one and continue to influence Valentina’s life, purpose and work. These bands range in genre from the blues to psychedelic synth/prog-rock to Canadiana. She is also actively part of four other Canadian-based bands, including another project of her own under her name. The woman behind MOONBEAN, Valentina Morelli, has been playing with 3x Juno nominated rock band The Johnnys for several years and has toured all over Canada at festivals such as Snow King Festival (Yellowknife, NWT), Pride TO (Toronto, ON) and Hillside Festival (Guelph, ON). On stage, you’ll see them sporting cosmically confused attire while they wield electrically stimulating sounds and rhythms that create a space for all listeners to get weird on the dance floor. With a passion for movement and sound paired with layers of alluring, synthesized melodies and heavy dance rhythms, MOONBEAN aim’s to get your heartbeat going, feet moving and heart filled with messages of love and empowerment. MOONBEAN’s music pulls inspiration from artists like Little Dragon, Peaches and Eurythmics. The music reigns in experimental synth-pop with flavours of psychedelia, acid-house, techno and disco with a punk attitude. Performing as an electronic duo with bandmate and co-producer Colin Harrington, they play a live, synth hardware set with lush vocal melodies.

MOONBEAN is a queer, Toronto-based solo artist.

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To celebrate the release of MOONBEAN’s new single “ rck vs ocn“, the emerging Toronto-based electropop duo curated a brand new Spotify playlist that features a few of their favourite Toronto-based electronic artists.

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