Gabbi Coenen is an Australian-born, LA-based vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. She is known for her “expansive and electrifying” songwriting and her versatile vocal abilities, which have seen her professional career span a range of genres, from modern jazz to indie pop, early to contemporary classical music, and nearly everything in between.
Based in Los Angeles since 2020 (and NYC previously since 2011), she has released four EPs and an album as RVBY MY DEAR. Her debut album Waiting (Villainy Records, 2019) was produced by Andrew Lappin and garnered high praise from indie tastemakers such as The Line of Best Fit and The Deli Magazine, as well as landing on Trip-Hop Nation’s Best of 2019 list. The single “Try” was also a semi-finalist in the Unpublished category of the 2019 International Songwriting Competition. Her follow-up self-titled EP (Spirit House Records, 2022) was featured on Bandcamp’s New & Notable and received airplay on Triple J’s Home & Hosed.
An in-demand session vocalist and topliner, Gabbi’s most high-profile role is as the English singing voice of the character Rosalie in the popular Japanese gacha game Memento Mori from Bank of Innovation, appearing on the tracks“Rosalie’s Lament” and “Lingering Traces”. She has also collaborated on tracks for various producers, composers and music libraries such as Audiosocket and The Lodge, and her music as RVBY MY DEAR is represented for sync by Sweets & Pop. Her song “Going For A Drive (ImaGeddit)” (co-written with Bede Kennedy of Castlecomer and Jess Edo) was synced in a digital ad for Facebook x Ray-Ban Stories sunglasses. She has also contributed vocals to several projects by NY-based doom metal artist Witnesses, as featured in Decibel Magazine, as well as indie rock band Hunter & Wolfe and Scottish indie pop band Poster Paints, as featured in NME. She also sings and plays bass for local LA artists Foxanne and Joanna Wallfisch.
Gabbi is currently a soprano with Tonality, Choral Arts Initiative, C3LA, and the All Saints Beverly Hills Choir, with whom she performed as the soloist for Mozart’s Vespers (featuring the famous “Laudate Dominum” solo) and Coronation Mass in May 2022. She has also appeared with Hex Vocal Ensemble for their 2023 live score performance of The Fall of the House of Usher and the Hear Now Music Festival. While in New York she was a soprano with internationally renowned vocal ensemble Khorikos, with whom she toured to Serbia and Montenegro in 2019, winning the 54th Days of Mokranjac Festival competition. She has premiered works by world-renowned composers such as Andrew Smith (Norway) and Graham Lack (Germany), and performed at world-class American venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Apollo Theater, the 55 Bar, Rockwood Music Hall, The Bitter End, and The Hotel Café, as well as prestigious Australian venues such as the Ellington Jazz Club, the Quarry Amphitheatre and the Perth Concert Hall.
When not writing, recording or performing, Gabbi is a freelance music supervisor and coordinator for film & TV. She holds a BFA in Jazz Voice from The New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music and a Bachelor of Music from the West Australian Academy of Performance Arts.
Gabbi’s music supervisor and coordinator credits include The Accompanist (dir. Zach Woods), Greenland 2: Migration (2026), The Otherkind (2025), and The First Snow of Fraggle Rock (2025).
Photographer: Luis Ruiz