Think Jeff Buckley meets P.J. Harvey. With an evocative voice and unique slide guitar playing TEA’s debut album inspired critics to say: "a lovely, soulful voice", "dynamite and diverse CD”, “brilliant song craft and brawny guitar”, “lush and perfectly understated”. TEA has been represented by MainMan (David Bowie, John Mellencamp, Lou Reed), captured on film by the legendary Mick Rock (Queen, Tori Amos) and featured in the PBS documentary, “Strings Attached”. As a founder of the seminal SF band Her Majesty the Baby she was signed to Phonogram and Nu.Millenia/BMG and worked alongside notable producers Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith, Suzanne Vega) and Greg Hawkes (the Cars), has shared the stage with P.J. Harvey, the Pixies, the Flaming Lips, Fugazi, the Throwing Muses, and Third Eye Blind. TEA won an ASCAP songwriting award at the Boston Music Awards, was featured as a Billboard Magazine Heatseeker, was nominated for best independent release and rock act by the SF Alternative Music Awards.

Press Info

Tea has been reviewed in Spin, Billboard (Heatseeker), Entertainment Weekly, CMJ, San Francisco Chronicle, BAM, the Washington Post, Electronic Musician, The SF Weekly, The SF Bay Guardian, and many other publications across the country.

Similar Artists

Jeff Buckley, P.J. Harvey, Wilco, Low, Sigur Ros, Blonde Redhead

Influences

Patti Smith, Nick Drake, the Fall, Cocteau Twins

Bio

TEA is a solo artist, a very solo artist. She constructs her songs out of a recording studio she built herself in San Francisco’s Mission District. Here she writes all the songs, sings, plays all the instruments, produces, engineers and mixes everything herself creating a unusual intimacy between herself and the listener. With a strong, evocative voice and unique slide guitar playing TEA created a beautiful, emotionally grabbing, debut pop album in 1998 that inspired the critics to say: “a lovely, soulful voice”, “a dynamite and diverse CD”, “full of brilliant song craft and brawny guitar”, “lush and perfectly understated”.

TEA has been represented by MainMan (David Bowie, John Cougar Mellencamp, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop), captured on film by the legendary Mick Rock (Queen, Tori Amos, Bowie), and featured in the PBS documentary, “Strings Attached”, about women guitar players. She produced a young, all girl punk band, Vyvyan and was tapped to compose a soundtrack for the film, Drop, that played the international film festival circuit and on international TV. Now TEA is back with the release of her much-awaited 2nd release, “This Too”, which features lush, organic, almost orchestral arrangements of her voice and guitar.

As a member of the seminal San Francisco band, Her Majesty the Baby, TEA has worked alongside such notable producers as Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith, Suzanne Vega, Soul Asylum) and Greg Hawkes (the Cars) and has shared the stage with such top-notch acts as P.J. Har