Empress Of Biography

Under the name Empress Of Honduran-American vocalist/songwriter Lorely Rodriguez creates introspective self-empowering electropop centered around her impressive acrobatic vocals. After releasing a variety of dreamier tracks beginning in 2012 her 2015 full-length debut Me established a danceable more spontaneous sound that embraced whimsicality and percussiveness.
Born in Los Angeles and raised on Latin music and jazz Rodriguez became obsessed with Björk as a teenager and decided to become a musician. She moved to the East Coast and began experimenting with music software on her laptop. She first gained attention by anonymously uploading a series of 15 minute-long experimental demos called colorminutes (named because they were simply accompanied by a single color each) to YouTube in 2012. Her first 7 single the dreamy downtempo Champagne/Don't Tell Me was released by No Recordings in November of that year. Japanese label Big Love Records released Colorminutes on cassette in early 2013 and Empress Of signed to Terrible Records and Double Denim Records for the release of her 12 EP Systems. The EP's Spanish-language single Tristeza was remixed by El Guincho Delorean and Pional.
Rodriguez spent 2014 working on music and released the online single Realize You which was significantly more uptempo and focused than her previous recordings. Tracked in Mexico City New York City and Montreal Empress Of's debut album Me arrived on XL/Terrible Records in September of 2015. It made the Top Ten of the Billboard Heatseekers and Top Dance/Electronic Albums charts. She followed it with the stand-alone singles Woman Is a Word and Go to Hell in 2016 and 2017 respectively. In 2017 she also collaborated with DJDS on two tracks including a cover of Lana Del Rey's Love. Both songs appeared on the EDM duo's May 2018 LP Big Wave More Fire. That October Empress Of released her second full-length Us on Terrible Records.

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