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Artist
Monarchs
12+ albums
soulHip-Hopr&bfolk rockdoo wop
about
1.) A doo-wop group from Louisville, Kentucky. 2.) A garage rock band from Michigan active in the mid-'90s on Bulb Records. 3.) A garage rock band from Sydney, Australia active in the '90s. 4.) Music comes not from lesson or rote but the open soul. Celeste Griffin, the Monarchs lead singer, began her music education in the piano at age eight. It lasted less than a year. It was fifteen years later, on a sultry afternoon in Alabama, when Celeste again laid her untrained hands to her mother’s piano and stumbled upon her first song, Notes of Disease. The pot began to boil and Celeste yielded to the flame. Three years later Griffin’s recognized ability to whisper southern family secrets and belt the grief of lost love has landed her at the biggest venues in Austin, the “Live Music Capital of the World.” Griffin's music is her own. It is dripping with thickly woven emotion, a personal testimony to a collective memory that bonds family, friends, and lovers. Monarchs blurs the genre lines, grazing soul, folk, rock, and southern boogie in any given song. Her voice is powerful and poetic, chords resonating in a distinctly Alabaman tune. With the occasional 'Roll Tide!' interspersing applause and her charming southern drawl coating song break commentary, its hard to forget Griffin's southern roots. Monarchs' first two albums glow with soft sunshine, intimate portraits of a young woman finding musical inspiration in the laughter of her friends, the lazy flight of Birmingham fireflies,
