Carla Patullo is an American composer, singer-songwriter, and filmmaker born in Springfield, Massachusetts, who trained at Berklee College of Music (including graduate study in screen scoring in Valencia, Spain) and built her early career in Los Angeles as the frontwoman of the band White Widow, releasing albums such as No Wood to Knock On (2005), Black Heart (2009), and White Widow: A Psychological Thriller (2012) while also working as a touring musical director. In the 2010s she shifted increasingly toward composition and production, founding the recording studio/label The Soundry (2011) and taking on screen work across documentaries, shorts, and feature projects, including credits tied to films such as Maxine and Everybody Dies… Sometimes. Her profile as a solo artist and composer rose sharply with So She Howls (2023), a cinematic, voice-forward album featuring the vocal ensemble Tonality and the Scorchio Quartet; it won the Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album in 2024 and positioned her as a distinctive figure in contemporary ambient and modern classical crossover. She followed that momentum with Nomadica (2025), which earned her another Grammy in the same category in 2026, while she continued composing for picture and developing a catalog that blended orchestral writing, experimental textures, and layered vocals without fitting neatly into a single genre label.
