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The profile · researched 13 September 2026
Back in the small rooms, with a debut album finally in sight
Alexa Cappelli went from a four-chair turn on The Voice to a major-label deal and out the other side; eight years on she is independent, releasing singles at pace and opening vaultboy's September 2026 club run while her first album, Fairytales & Fallacies, waits in the wings.
Upland, a church choir and a four-chair turn
Cappelli was born on 9 August 1999 in Upland, California, one of twins — her brother Nick arrived alongside her. A third sibling died in 2002 at 32 months old from hypoplastic left heart syndrome, and her parents, Tony and Sandy, went on to found the charity Steven's Hope for Children in his memory. It is family history she has never made a marketing plank of, but it sits behind a household that took the idea of showing up for other people seriously.
The singing started early and formally. She began voice lessons through her church at seven and won a local competition at twelve. For secondary school she went to the Orange County School of the Arts, where she studied commercial music — the songwriting side of the discipline rather than the recital side — and started writing rather than only interpreting.
At eighteen she auditioned for the fourteenth season of The Voice with 'I've Got the Music in Me', the Kiki Dee Band song, and turned all four chairs. She chose Kelly Clarkson. In the knockout round she sang 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' and made the top 24; during the live playoffs she performed 'It Hurts So Bad' and 'Stop and Stare' before being eliminated short of the top twelve. It was enough exposure to start a career and not enough to hand her one.
Two years at Arista, and a two-year silence
Her first release under her own name was the EP The Colors That Make You in August 2019, made in the window between the show and any industry infrastructure. The record that actually established a sound came later: Confused @ 22, released on 22 February 2022, which set a run of Nineties alternative-rock guitar shapes and new-wave phrasing against contemporary electronic production rather than the acoustic-pop default that television competitions tend to produce.
That EP brought Arista Records, which signed her in 2022. 'Could've Just Left Me Alone' followed and became her most-streamed track of the period. In June 2023 she featured on 'Backwards' with Knox. And then, for over a year, effectively nothing.
The gap had a cause. Cappelli and Arista parted after roughly two years together, and the split stalled her release schedule at precisely the point where momentum mattered most. She has since described the period in plain terms — three house moves, and a stretch spent relearning how to trust her own judgement about her work.
'Good Riddance' and the independent restart
The return came on 18 July 2024 with 'Good Riddance', an upbeat break-up song with a darker seam running under it, released through her own imprint, Alexa Cappelli Music. She was explicit that the lyric could be pointed at a partner, a friendship, a job or a record label without needing to be rewritten, and her announcement post promised that there was more coming — 'for real this time'.
She delivered. The EP The Process of Elimination arrived on 4 October 2024, and rather than sit on it she went straight out on the road, opening for Jessia's Be Here Now tour that autumn. The Canadian leg took in Le Ministère in Montreal on 6 November 2024 and The 27 Club in Ottawa the following night — rooms small enough that an opener with a large voice registers immediately.
The pattern set there — release, then tour it in clubs as a support act, then release again — has held ever since, and it is the thing that distinguishes her current run from the Arista years, when the output was sparse and the touring sparser.
2025: a deluxe, an EP and four singles
2025 was the busiest year of her career. She expanded The Process of Elimination into a deluxe edition, issued a further EP, Red Couch, and put out singles at a rate that would have been impossible under a label calendar: the double A-side 'Mirror Mirror / No Happy End', 'I Said What I Said', 'Crimes' and 'Take It As A Blessing'.
She also leaned into the stripped-back circuit that suits her voice. In a Small Sounds session published on 20 May 2025 by Long Beach City College's Viking News, she played 'Five Minutes', 'A Little Closer' and 'Good Riddance' acoustically, and talked through The Voice, the label departure and what independence actually costs. In December she played a Sofar Sounds date in Los Angeles on the 11th — a living-room-scale show, no production to hide behind.
Taken together it reads less like a holding pattern than a deliberate rebuild: a catalogue deep enough to carry a headline set, assembled in public, one release at a time.
Where things stand in 2026
This year has brought 'Oblivious', a jondo remix of it, and 'Oopsie Daisy' in June 2026, written with Zeph Park and Jules Brave and produced by Park. The songs are trailers for the thing she has been pointing at since the Arista split ended: Fairytales & Fallacies, announced as her debut album and coming out independently.
No release date has been made public. What has been confirmed is the shape — an album rather than another EP, self-released rather than licensed, and assembled from material she has been road-testing in clubs for two years. For an artist whose first eight years produced three EPs and no long-player, that is the milestone worth watching.
In the meantime the touring is doing the work. Her own site is currently selling tickets for a September 2026 run dated 10–29 September, and she is on the road in a support slot rather than headlining — a choice that puts her in front of somebody else's audience every night while the album is finished.
The vaultboy run
The September 2026 dates are vaultboy's ARE YOU EVER COMING BACK? Tour, with Cappelli opening. vaultboy is Jeremiah Daly, a Florida songwriter who built an audience from his bedroom during the pandemic, went to number one on Spotify's global viral chart with 'everything sucks' and has since released the album Everything and Nothing. The pairing is sensible: two writers working the same confessional, guitar-adjacent pop register, playing rooms where the audience is close enough to sing the words back.
The routing runs through St Louis on 13 September at The Fubar Music Lounge, Denver on the 15th at Larimer Lounge, Salt Lake City on the 17th at Soundwell, Seattle on the 19th at Barboza, San Francisco on the 22nd at Café du Nord, Los Angeles on the 24th at the Moroccan Lounge, Las Vegas on the 25th at B Side at House of Blues, and Phoenix on the 27th at Valley Bar.
Two of those are listed as on sale through Live Nation — the Moroccan Lounge on 24 September and B Side at House of Blues on 25 September — which makes the Los Angeles date a hometown show of sorts, roughly forty miles from where she grew up.
The show, now
Right now Cappelli is playing opening sets on vaultboy's ARE YOU EVER COMING BACK? Tour through September 2026, which means small club stages and an early start rather than a headline production — the Denver date at Larimer Lounge on 15 September opens doors at 7pm with music from 8pm and is restricted to over-16s, and the run takes in rooms of similar scale in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix. The set is drawn from the independent catalogue she has built since 2024: The Process of Elimination and its deluxe edition, the Red Couch EP, and the 2025–26 singles including 'Crimes', 'Oblivious' and 'Oopsie Daisy', with 'Good Riddance' the song most likely to be recognised on arrival. She publishes a running Spotify playlist titled as the ARE YOU EVER COMING BACK? tour setlist, so the material she is playing each night is documented by the artist herself rather than guessed at. Staging is minimal by necessity in venues this size, and her acoustic sessions — the May 2025 Small Sounds set of 'Five Minutes', 'A Little Closer' and 'Good Riddance', and a Sofar Sounds show in Los Angeles on 11 December 2025 — indicate a performer comfortable carrying a room on voice alone when the production drops away. Contemporary press reviews of the current run had not been published at the time of writing.
Researched from en.wikipedia.org · songkick.com · songkick.com · larimerlounge.com · livenation.com · music.apple.com · musicscenemedia.com · lbccviking.com
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