Gretchen Lieberum

Gretchen Lieberum is a Los Angeles-based vocalist and songwriter.

Raised in Berkeley, California and educated at UC Santa Cruz, she developed a passion for music within the Bay Area scene.

After fronting a funk band for several years, Lieberum released her first solo album, Three a.m. (1999) followed by a record named Brand New Morning (2002),^[1] both produced by Greg Porée. Her latest albums, Siren Songs (2005) and When This Kiss Is Over It Will Start Again (2009), were independently released in the United States.

She and college friend Maya Rudolph are in a Prince cover band together called Princess. Princess performed "Darling Nikki" on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon in September 2012 with the band The Roots.^[2] In April 2016 they performed "Sometimes It Snows in April " with D'Angelo on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon".^[3]

Her song "You Closer" was featured as a sample track on the Sansa e200 series portable mp3 players

Gretchen Lieberum's latest project is Sargent, cabaret-pop abundant in levitating lullabies and heart-ached ballads born of vintage instruments. The self-titled LP, out September 16th, has been a long time (six years) in gestation with the help of collaborator Jake Blanton (The Killers, Beck) but was only recently completed and released. Sargent recently joined forces with director Kirk Woodward Nelson to make a powerful video for the single Miracles and Light. http://www.stereogum.com/1899515/sargent-miracles-light-video/video/

"...loss and flux is elegantly woven into the record—cinematic, often piano driven songs delivered with rare hairsbreadth intimacy. A slight hand with the sparsity." (VICE/Noisey)

References

Official Site