Meet Nell Mescal, Paul Mescal’s musician sister who released her debut EP: she’s opened for Shania Twain and HAIM, and went to the Baftas with the Normal People star, but why did she drop out of school?
- The 21-year-old released her debut EP, Can I Miss it for a Minute – but she’s already opened for Florence and the Machine and Phoebe Bridgers, her Oscar-nominated brother’s ex
- Her 2020 cover of Taylor Swift’s ‘Exile’ blew up on the internet, and she and Paul also covered ‘Nothing Arrived’ by Villagers – so what does she think of the nepotism comments?
Paul Mescal’s 21-year-old little sister Nell Mescal released her refreshingly honest debut EP, Can I Miss it for a Minute? in May.
So, just who is Nell Mescal, the rising singer-songwriter who has been in love with music since she was four, and how is the Maynooth, Ireland native reacting to the nepotism comments?
Nell Mescal comes from a creative family
In addition to her brother Paul, who was at one point dubbed the “internet’s boyfriend” after his meteoric success with Normal People, Nell has other creatives in her family too.
While her mother is a policewoman and her father is a teacher, per Vogue, her father also plays guitar and piano – although it wasn’t him who taught her; she learned piano by herself. The father-daughter duo would perform at talent shows though, per Marie Claire, where he would play the guitar and she would sing.
There’s also a video floating around on the internet of Nell singing “Nothing Arrived” by Villagers with Paul.