Ella Boh (born September 15, 2001, in Laguna Beach, California) is an American producer, songwriter and dark-pop artist based in Los Angeles: half Costa Rican, half French, in her own words “been making music forever and ever & I’ll never stop.” She spent years as the industry’s invisible hitmaker, with credits spanning Selena Gomez’s “My Mind & Me” and Ben Böhmer’s “Blossoms,” became the first artist ever signed to Poems Publishing, won the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s 2025 Abe Olman Scholarship, produces and creative-directs Ari Abdul’s records, and stepped out as a solo artist with a release pace almost nobody matches: three EPs inside two years, then a 38-date world tour supporting Artemas.
Raised in an “extremely musical family” in Laguna Beach, influenced most by her mother and grandmother, “the ones who really introduced her to her passion for making music.” A darker formative thread surfaced only in 2026: she “grew up in a very restrictive religion until I was around seven,” and when her parents left it, “most of my family on both sides shunned us”, an experience that feeds directly into “BLOODY MARY.” Her real name has never been published anywhere; every credit database, from Apple Music’s composition credits to MusicBrainz to her Songwriters Hall of Fame profile, lists only Ella Boh, and no interview has ever explained where “Boh” comes from.
“I started the music industry as an artist, but I was 15 years old. I would put covers on YouTube and ended up in sessions... All throughout high school, I was just writing.” The earliest artifacts are already out there: a featured-vocal spot on Max Styler’s “Sleep Alone” (2018), Brother Sundance’s “Monsters” (2019), and a stray “temporary (2018 demo)” still sitting on her SoundCloud. A Sofar Sounds bio captures her at 18 with placements at Warner Bros. and Dim Mak, a Perez Hilton co-sign, and spots on Apple Music’s Alt A-List and Spotify’s “Creamy” playlist. Then the pandemic froze it: “when the pandemic hit, I didn’t do any sessions for a year.”
When her publisher recognized she “could write great pitch songs,” the writer lane took over: the official “Ella Boh: The Songwriters” Apple Music playlist runs 40 songs and nearly two hours, spanning Selena Gomez, Ben Böhmer, Jai Wolf, Dixie, Jutes, Rose Gray, Kailee Morgue, KiNG MALA, Zevia, Smith & Thell, Max Styler, Lillian Hepler, Freya Skye, Devon Gabriella and more. On “My Mind & Me” (November 2022) she is credited as songwriter and background vocalist alongside Jon Bellion, Amy Allen, Michael Pollack and The Monsters & Strangerz, whose Johnson brothers later made her Poems Publishing’s first-ever signing. The deeper cuts show the range: producer and background vocalist on Dixie’s “a letter to me,” a writing credit on the Deux Twins and Audrey Mika single “Madonna” (2022), the Ben Böhmer co-write “Blossoms” (September 2024). In April 2025 the Songwriters Hall of Fame made it official, awarding her the Abe Olman Scholarship (selected by BMI) and summing up the arc: “As the writer and sole producer of her artist project, her music hits with emotional weight and cinematic edge.” The transition back to artist was inevitable: “I just couldn’t stop writing... Eventually, the songs started to sound like my songs.”
After a quiet 2024 EP (things i can’t feel, released with a simultaneous “2am mix” companion), the official run began March 7, 2025 with “a little bit,” then moved at her stated pace, “I like putting out music as quickly as humanly possible”: “babydoll” (April), the relationship-confirming Ari Abdul duet “out of order” (May 8), “i don’t wanna” (June, co-written with Lily Hormel), the debut EP milk & honey (announced July 9, 2025 with the caption “my debut EP ‘milk & honey’ is yours,” carrying “ur gf” and the Charlie Besso collaboration “bleeding out”), the second Ari Abdul duet “No Fair” (August 15), the Ellise duet “DiE” (September, “about wanting to make them yours forever at any cost”), and “SERiAL KiLLER” for Halloween, released October 31. She self-produced the entire first era alone, “I wanted to do that for the first era so it could feel the most me”, before bringing in Grammy-nominated producer Stint (HEALTH, Demi Lovato, Gallant) for the next one. Her creative process is compulsive: “I’m just obsessed with taking the sounds in my head and making them real so other people can hear them too... Usually I’ll get super manic and inspired in the middle of the night and I’ll hear it all in my head.” The 2026 singles kept the monthly cadence: “iNSOMNiAC” (January 23), “LLORONiTA” (February 20), “STARLET” (April 3), the BLURRY EP (April 24), then the Henry Morris duet “My Girlfriend” in June. On a January 2026 live she teased that what comes next is “bigger than an album.”
The BLURRY EP (April 24, 2026) is five characters, one psyche, “five different sides of being a human,” each with a cinematic source: SERiAL KiLLER (from You and Dexter), iNSOMNiAC (from Paranormal Activity and The Conjuring, about feeling unreal and sleepless), LLORONiTA (Spanish for “little cry baby,” an Alice in Wonderland-tinted abandonment narrative), STARLET (fame-obsession rooted in childhood ambitions to be seen and heard), and BLOODY MARY (reclaiming the family shunning). Ones to Watch called her sound a “molten dark pop gem” pairing obsession lyrics “with the volatile energy of metal riffs”; the Songwriters Hall of Fame calls the production “gritty, emotive, and unexpected” and her, in the same breath, “a perfectionist who doesn’t take herself too seriously... thoughtful, relentless, and self-made.” Tim Burton is the cited visual north star; the stylized miXED-CASE titling is the brand signature. Asked what feeds the work outside music, her list is short and total: “my brain, my favorite movies, my favorite art, my life and everyone in it.”
They met in a writing session around 2022, years before anything was public: “we were peers... we wrote a lot of songs together. We wrote Slow Dancing.” Roughly thirty co-writes later, the Songwriters Hall of Fame formalized what the credits already showed: “Ella is locked in producing dark-pop breakout artist Ari Abdul, managing creative direction with the same intensity she brings to her own records.” MusicBrainz credits her as writer-producer on “Alive” and “LEAVE ME HERE,” and the co-write list runs through “You,” “DON’T,” “Girls on the Internet,” the Chris Grey “Let the World Burn” remix and the Presley Regier “Questions” remix. The May 2025 duet “out of order” made the relationship public; “No Fair,” which Polish tour press described as “an intimate portrait of infatuation, inspired by their own relationship,” is about it; on live streams she calls Ari “my girlfriend” while the two joke about living together like “fraternal twins.”
Her Discord-first fan community, described by the Songwriters Hall of Fame as “part Discord server, part creative rebellion... a space where connection, identity, and self-expression take flight.” The invite link ships in the description of nearly every official video from “babydoll” onward, and her bios invite fans to “join the cult.” Her own pitch is blunter: “If you’re not in the Discord server, get in the Discord server... if I have a secret, Discord gets to know first.” She streams on Twitch as notellaboh (including Roblox nights with Ari and Ellise), keeps a near-nightly TikTok live habit that fan channels mirror to YouTube as an unofficial archive, and frames community as the entire point: “As a fan, I always gravitate towards artists that have a real community.” Her advice to that community, verbatim from a live: “Do things that make you happy... you don’t owe anyone anything... you have to take care of yourself the same way that you may care about other people.”
Publishing: Poems Publishing, the boutique Encino house founded by Grammy-winning duo The Monsters & Strangerz (Stefan and Jordan Johnson) with their brother Christian Johnson, in partnership with Mega House Music’s David Silberstein and Jeremy Levin. Billboard reports she was the company’s very first signing, roughly two years before its 2025-26 feature, ahead of Jack LaFrantz of “Beautiful Things” fame, Isiah Tejada and Jackson Foote. Releases: Bamboo Artists, the credited rights-holder on every 2025-26 single and EP. Management: SongsYouLike; her Hall of Fame bio’s framing: “she is wasting no time and refuses to be put in a box.” Production and creative direction for Ari Abdul runs as its own professional lane alongside the artist project, a rare three-lane career (writer for hire, producer-director for another artist, front-facing solo act) run simultaneously at 24.
Barely a year into her solo career, she landed direct support (with Henry Morris) on Artemas’s 38-date LOVERCORE / GETTING UP TO NO GOOD world tour, covering every North American date: “I’m opening for Artemas in 1 monthish and I will be on the whole entire tour except for the London date.” The run spans North America and Europe before closing at London’s O2 Academy Brixton in December 2026. She also features on his getting up to no good track “BLURRY”, and named “i guess u never really cared about me” as the song she’s most excited to hear live: “These are the biggest rooms that I’ve ever played in.” Her own “ones to watch” picks, two years running: The Marías and Mareux. (One endearing tell from the live archive: she reliably pronounces her tourmate’s name “Artemis.”)
Her press footprint is deliberately narrow so far: the Songwriters Hall of Fame profile and two Ones to Watch Q&As carry most of the on-record story, thin coverage relative to peers like Isabel LaRosa, which makes the fan infrastructure do the documentation instead. Reddit picked up BLURRY on r/popheads, r/musicsuggestions hosts threads pairing her with Ari Abdul as a listening unit, producers on r/WeAreTheMusicMakers reverse-engineer her vocal chain (“how can I mix vocals like the ones in babydoll by Ella Boh?”), and r/Shoes once crowdsourced an ID on her footwear from a video. Fan-run YouTube channels archive her TikTok lives almost nightly, an organic record of an artist whose biggest announcements really do land on Discord and stream first. The critical language that exists is vivid: “molten dark pop,” “emotional weight and cinematic edge,” “gritty, emotive, and unexpected.”
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 2001 | Born September 15 in Laguna Beach, California, into an “extremely musical family” |
| 2008 | Around age seven, her parents leave a restrictive religion; much of the extended family shuns them, the seed of “BLOODY MARY” |
| 2016 | At 15, posts covers on YouTube and lands her first LA writing sessions |
| 2018-19 | Early featured vocals: Max Styler’s “Sleep Alone,” Brother Sundance’s “Monsters”; at 18, placements at Warner Bros. and Dim Mak, Perez Hilton co-sign |
| 2020 | Pandemic freezes sessions for a year |
| 2022 | Songwriter and background vocalist on Selena Gomez’s “My Mind & Me”; meets Ari Abdul in a writing session |
| 2023-24 | Becomes Poems Publishing’s first-ever signing; Ben Böhmer’s “Blossoms”; quiet debut EP things i can’t feel |
| 2025 | “a little bit” opens the solo era (March 7); Abe Olman Scholarship (April); “out of order” goes public with the relationship (May 8); milk & honey EP (July); “DiE”; “SERiAL KiLLER” on Halloween |
| 2026 | iNSOMNiAC, LLORONiTA, STARLET; BLURRY EP (April 24); every North American date of Artemas’s 38-date world tour; “My Girlfriend” with Henry Morris |
Unknown, and that is genuinely rare: no credit database, publisher listing or interview has ever published a legal name other than Ella Boh. Names circulated by fans are unverified speculation. She has never explained the surname on record.
Born September 15, 2001 in Laguna Beach, per her public profiles: 24 as of mid-2026, matching her own self-description as “a 24 year old, half Costa Rican/half French artist born & raised in Southern California.”
Her releases come out through Bamboo Artists; publishing is Poems Publishing (its first signing ever); management is SongsYouLike. There is no major-label artist deal on record, a boutique structure she pairs with total creative control.
Yes: she is a credited songwriter and background vocalist on “My Mind & Me” (2022), alongside Jon Bellion, Amy Allen, Michael Pollack and The Monsters & Strangerz.
Yes. Songwriting partners first (around thirty co-writes starting circa 2022), publicly a couple since the May 2025 duet “out of order.” Boh also produces and creative-directs Abdul’s records; “No Fair” is written about the relationship.
She does. The entire first era, from “a little bit” through milk & honey, was self-produced “so it could feel the most me.” Grammy-nominated producer Stint joins for the next era.
Dark pop with teeth: Ones to Watch describes obsession-heavy lyrics set against “the volatile energy of metal riffs,” built as cinematic character studies with Tim Burton as the visual north star. Databases file her under indie pop, pop and electronic; her own Facebook bio keeps it to three words: “Songwriter, Producer, Artist.”
Not yet. things i can’t feel (2024), milk & honey (2025) and BLURRY (2026) are all EPs; aggregator sites occasionally mislabel milk & honey or “i don’t wanna” as albums, but her own announcement billed milk & honey as “my debut EP.” On a January 2026 live she teased that the next project is “bigger than an album.”
| Year | Title | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | BLURRY (iNSOMNiAC · BLOODY MARY · LLORONiTA · STARLET · SERiAL KiLLER) · My Girlfriend (w/ Henry Morris) | EP · Single | Second EP |
| 2025 | milk & honey (incl. ur gf · bleeding out w/ Charlie Besso) · a little bit · babydoll · out of order (w/ Ari Abdul) · i don’t wanna · No Fair · DiE (w/ Ellise) · SERiAL KiLLER | EP · Singles | Debut solo year |
| 2024 | things i can’t feel (+2am mix) | EP | Pre-official debut |
| 2018-19 | Sleep Alone (Max Styler feat. Ella Boh) · Monsters (Brother Sundance feat. Ella Boh) · temporary (demo) | Features | Earliest catalog |
| Writer | My Mind & Me (Selena Gomez, 2022) · Madonna (Deux Twins & Audrey Mika, 2022) · Blossoms (Ben Böhmer, 2024) · a letter to me (Dixie, prod.) · 40-song writer catalog | Credits | Playlist: “Ella Boh: The Songwriters” |
On this site: Ari Abdul, the artist she produces, directs and dates · Artemas, whose world tour gave her the biggest rooms of her career · Isabel LaRosa, the other half of the Slumbo dark-pop orbit she writes inside · Nessa Barrett and The Neighbourhood for the wider scene map · and TX2, whose X Movement is the closest analog to a Discord-first fandom like the Butterfly Movement.