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Artist
RO
12+ albums
post-rockinstrumentalHip-Hopexperimentaljapanese
about
There are multiple artists with this name; the Spanish post-rock band ṘO often scrobbles to this location. The write-up below does not apply to ṘO. 1) Ro is popular on her own terms. A songwriter, inspired by poetry and storytelling. She believes truth lies in fiction. Live, she is a powerful woman centre-stage. Dubbed as a ‘lyrical assassin’ by the triple J community, she is a “musician that unites breezy guitar with incredible lyrical poetry, showcasing her storytelling side while also cementing her status as a kick-ass musician on the rise” (Pilerats). Ro is the moniker of Rowena Ethelwyn Wise. She grew up in Margaret River, Western Australia. Her father is a luthier who built her custom electric guitar. Her mother is a musician from Chicago, USA. Music surrounded Ro’s entire childhood. She travelled and performed from a young age in a family band, then moved to Melbourne to play her own music. While writing her first songs for Ro, she worked in a denim alteration store and graduated from Melbourne University with a Bachelor of Arts, double majoring in Literature and Creative Writing. She now studies sound production, combining her love of words with a technical approach to creativity. Ro brings palatable and powerful wordplay to the world. As a performer she is an uncaged charismatic introvert. She delivers anthemic self-empowered love songs with clever melancholic witticisms. Her sound is characterised by “poetic lyricism, bursting with melancholic charm and a myria
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