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bio

Celeste Krishna is an artist and producer who composes songs and as a life practice.  “There is something transcendent about blending poetry with melody, rhythm, and harmonic arrangement. For me, putting all these elements together is the most natural way to communicate a feeling,” she says of her musical practice.  Indeed, Krishna ingeniously pulls from different genres and idioms to best suit the emotional contours of each of her songs. This approach has led her to create a robust catalog of what she calls “Alabama poet-rock” - evocative music that is both poetic and danceable. 

Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Krishna is now based in Brooklyn, New York.  Throughout her early life and career she lived and played in multiple cities throughout the American South, accumulating stories and experiences that undergird her perspective as a nomadic singer-songwriter.  Her work has garnered considerable success including 11 million streams on Spotify and Pandora and the sync placement of her song “Come On and Move Me” on NBC’s “Good Girls.”  In her maiden albums, Krishna played under the band name Monarchs where she established her “disarmingly soulful” style, according to The Austin Chronicle, and earned her place as a “a true-blue southern soul in lyrics and voice.”  Monarchs is the name Krishna still uses to describe her family of musical and artistic collaborators. 

Krishna’s most recent album, "My Blue House", explores stories of family heritage that metaphorically take place within her maternal grandmother’s blue house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. “A house is your view.  Your singular experience,” says Krishna. “In this album I am representing the world as I relate to it.”  American Songwriter describes “My Blue House” as “a mix of hymnal folk, bluesy odes, jazzed up and hip-hop beats all weaved around familial ties, spirituality, love… and beauty.”

In her forthcoming album, “The New Room,” a metaphorical addition to the blue house, Krishna has produced a musical homecoming to her alternative Southern rock style rooted in a groovy rhythm section and late 1960s Muscle Shoals sonics.

albums

Celeste Krishna & Monarchs |  Discography:

“The Oak EP” (2008)

“Those Words, Those Frames” (2009)

“The Rise and Fall” (2011)

“Ft. Celeste Mixtape” (2012)

“Prelude Red” (2017)

“Van Morrison” (single - 2019)

“My Blue House” (2020)

contact

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Links

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