Stephanie Marcellé releases album as a statement of healing
Stephanie Marcellé is many things: a graduate of Loyola’s “ Popular and Commercial Music Program,” the daughter of musician Steven Boyd, (a prolific musician who shared the stage with Chaka Khan, The Temptations, and other soul and funk legends, who passed when Marcellé was 12), a songwriter, a businesswoman, and much more. With her impressive resume and catchy pop vocal stylings, you could say she is one-hell-of-an-artist herself.
Soft-spoken at first, Marcellé refuses to define herself as one thing: a victim.
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Before transferring to Loyola, Marcellé was sleeping in her freshman dorm in the adjacent campus of Tulane University, when an intoxicated stranger entered her bedroom and sexually assaulted her. Marcellé’s room was connected to her suitemates’ room via an adjoining bathroom which could only be locked from the inside, forcing students to sleep with their doors unlocked and leaving them vulnerable to break-ins. This was how the perpetrator, who turned out to be another Tulane freshman, entered her room, a design flaw the university refused to take responsibility for. Now in the midst of what most would consider the legal battle of a lifetime, Marcellé is finding time to not only release one song per month during the year of 2021 that speaks to her trauma. Simultaneously, she is working to bring awareness to the horrors of sexual assault.