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Elliot and Natalie Bergman are two of four children born to musician Judson Bergman and writer and literary scholar [[Susan Bergman]] (née Heche), who brought them up in a house full of music. Elliot, the older sibling, is a multi-instrumentalist who studied at the [[University of Michigan]] where he started an [[Afrobeat]] band called Nomo. His younger sister, Natalie, started performing with Nomo, playing tambourine and singing backing vocals when she was sixteen.
This collaboration came about almost by accident. NOMO's Elliot Bergman had spent the better part of the summer building and recording electric [[kalimbas]] in Brooklyn, when label-mate, producer/multi-instrumentalist [[Shawn Lee (musician)|Shawn Lee]] asked him to send over a kalimba track for his new album. Lee, based in London, added some funky drums, bass and a smattering of steel drums, and sent it back to Bergman. When Bergman's sister, Natalie, heard the instrumental track destined for Shawn's album, she decided that she had to add some vocals. She stayed up all night writing the tune and recorded the vocals in Garage Band. The happy result is a great groove called "Upside Down", and NOMO's first vocal tune in ages.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wild Belle – 'Upside Down'|website = [[YouTube]]| date=2 November 2010 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJPrsTS19x4}}</ref>
Elliott and Natalie decided to branch off with their own project and chose the name, Wild Belle.<ref name="nme">{{cite web|title=Wild Belle – 'Isles'|date=2013-03-08|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/wild-belle/14190|publisher=NME|access-date=12 March 2013}}</ref>
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