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Empress Hotel is a pop ensemble based in New Orleans whose sound is inspired by both one hit wonders of the '70s and legends such as Prince, Sparks, and Roxy Music. The band has a unique slant on their own pop songs though, with stream of consciousness lyrics, dynamic vocal melodies and layered harmonies. Their sound salutes the glory days of rock n roll, and truly lives on stage with an audience right there with them. Empress Hotel is a by-product of a pair of brothers from New Orleans, some good friends and a stack of great ideas. Ryan Rogers...
Born and raised in the West Indies on the island of Trinidad, at the tender age of five years old Cherisse's mother discovered her ability to sing. Gracelin Morris wasted no time in getting her involved in school and church choirs. Cherisse then moved on to participating in local competitions at the Queen's Hall in Port-of- Spain. Coming in second place as a soloist, she continued taking voice lessons and was told by her teachers to never give up singing. Fastfowarding some twenty or more years after becoming a proud parent, Empress Cherisse resumed her talent and also discovered the...
Empress Of is Brooklyn’s Lorely Rodriguez, who has a voice as sweet and seductive as Lana del Rey (albeit with much more impressive range), but she expertly channels dizzyingly bizarre vocal acrobatics like those of Bjork or Dirty Projectors’ Amber Coffman, in a Grimes-ian falsetto, over a mesmerizing beat that’s like a confrontational take on classic dream-pop. http://empressof.me/ https://soundcloud.com/empressof .
There are at least fours artists with the name Empress: 1) An indie band from Leeds, England. 2) A post-rock band from Gold Coast, Australia. 3) A doom band from Vancouver, Canada. 4) A disco band of the 1980's from the United States. For the progressive metal band from London, England, see Empress AD 1. Hailing from Leeds (Northern England) Empress consist of Nicola Hodgkins of Hood, The Remote Viewer and Boyracer and Christopher Coyle of Halkyn. After releasing an EP and Album for Pehr they jumped to Stephen Pastels label Geographic after touring with The Pastels and put out...