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Early life
Samantha Scarlette was born to a film maker / architect mother (Lisa Scafuro), and a nuclear engineer father. Scarlette resided with her parents in Saddle River, NJ until her parents separation in 1996, when she moved to Scottsdale, Arizona with her mother. As a teenager Scarlette interviewed & photographed rock bands for a blog she created.

Music Career
Samantha Scarlette released her first EP titled “Into The Darkness EP & Demos” in digital format June 28th 2011. All of the song on “Into The Darkness” were written by Samantha (music & lyrics) between October 2010 and March 2011. The EP which was produced by former Scary Kids Scaring Kids drummer Justin Salter, was comprised of 4 studio tracks recorded at The Saltmine Studio Oasis in Mesa, Arizona and 5 garage band recorded tracks. Following a break up, Scarlette started writing new music in August 2013. After a nearly two year absence from music, in October 2013 she released a new stand alone single titled “Iron Maiden” which she recorded with John Gray at Jungle Studios, In Scottsdale. She followed it up by with re-releasing "Fallen Star" (off of "Into The Darkness") as a free download single in February 2014, accompanied by a music video. In February of 2014, Scarlette got in touch with various producers regarding recording a new album. Scarlette decided to go with Finnish metal producer Hiili Hiilesmaa, as he had produced some of Scarlette's favorite albums (mainly by the band HIM). Leading up to the recording of Samantha's next album (from March to July) she trained under former LaBelle singer Sarah Dash. Dash appears on background vocals two songs off of Scarlette's 2014 album "Violent Delights + Violent Ends" ("These Violent Delights" & "Epitaphs Of Love"). In July of 2014, Hiilesmaa flew to New York City (his first time back to the United States since recording HIM's Love Metal album in 2004), to record 5 tracks ("These Violent Delights", "Forgiven Sins", "Epitaphs Of Love", "Gothic Queens" and "Death Of A Dream") with Scarlette for her new album "Violent Delights + Violent Ends". The tracks were recorded at Quad Studios in Times Square. In October of 2014, Scarlette went back into the studio to record another track titled "(Death Of A Dream) Reprise: Farewell" as a collaboration with Matt Deis (formerly of CKY and All That Remains). All the tracks for "Violent Delights + Violent Ends" (except for "Iron Maiden") were mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound in New York. The albums first single "These Violet Delights" was released on digitally September 30th 2014, followed by the album "Violent Delights + Violent Ends" which was released world wide on November 18th 2014 in digital & physical formats. The album charted in the daily top 50 new rock release charts in the United States & UK for it's entire first week of release. A cd release party for the album was held at Slake Night Club in New York City.

Music Videos
Samantha Scarlette has directed & edited all of her music videos to date, "The Demon"(2011), "Iron Maiden" (2013), "Fallen Star" (2014), "These Violent Delights" (2014), "Epitaphs Of Love" (2014).

Music Style & Influences
Samantha refers to her style of music as "soft grunge" as it takes from 90's alternative/grunge sounds as well as 00's goth and emo music. Samantha has listed her biggest influences as being The Smashing Pumpkins, Courtney Love, Hole, 30 Seconds To Mars, HIM, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, and The Used.

Gear
For demo's when in Scottsdale, Samantha plays a white 2005 Ernie Ball Music Man Benji Madden Signature Guitar through a Marshall Amp. In New York she uses an OLP Coffin Case Guitar that she bought used strictly for last minute demos. Samantha uses both Garage Band & Adobe Audition for demos on her Apple Mac Book Pro.

Other Projects
- Samantha Scarlette has a clothing line called A Goth Clothing that she founded in 2012. Items from the line have been worn by Swedish rock musicians J.P. White and Peter London.

- 2011 to 2013 Samantha Scarlette was in charge of music selection on her mother's feature documentary The Vision Of Paolo Soleri. Scarlette selected tracks such as "To All Of You" by CKY, "Ama Credi E Vai" by Andrea Bocelli, and "Alibi" by 30 Seconds To Mars ( The Vision Of Paolo Soleri was the first indie film to be granted permission to use music by 30 Seconds To Mars). - As of January 2015, Samantha is in the process of taping a paranormal podcast series called Area 666 Radio. Samantha is known to be an avid fan of Art Bell and has often voiced that she would love to host a paranormal format radio show similar to Bell's "Coast To Coast Am".

Personal life
Samantha Scarlette is Nigerian - American and holds dual citizenship.

Scarlette was romantically linke to South African rock singer Ryan Howell, who was the lead singer of American rock band Farewell, My Love at the time. Howell was featured in the original album artwork for Scarlette's 2013 single "Iron Maiden" (the artwork was changed shortly before it's digital release), and a photograph of Howell appears in the music video. "Violent Delights + Violent Ends" is dedicated to Howell in the liner notes.

Growing up Scarlette was an avid skateboarder, until sustaining a serious head injury in a competition at the age of 19.

Samantha is not the only musician in her family; her cousins Gretchen & Stephen Pierce comprise the indie rock/shoegaze band Kindling, who are signed to MoonSound Records.

Discography

 * Into The Darkness EP + Demos (2011)
 * Violent Delights + Violent Ends (2014)