CocoRosie are an American musical duo made up of sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady. The duo formed in 2003 when meeting in Paris after being estranged from each other for three years. Their mix of opera, blues, hip-hop and pop made them coin their own genre, “freak-folk”.
Trust me on this, when it comes to the stories of how bands formed, there are stories and then there are *STORIES*. CocoRosie are very much in the latter camp. The parents of Coco and Rosie separated when they were three and five, respectively.
Ever since then they’ve led lives that were… interesting to say the very least. Their artist and singer mother took them out of high school early as she thought that they would learn more doing art in the “real world”. Their father wasn’t much better; since he became fascinated with Native American religions, and spent whole summers going on vision quests accompanied by his daughters.
Needless to say, they weren’t impressed at the time. Sierra moved to New York in 1998, aged 18, before relocating to Paris to study for a career as an opera singer. The sisters lost touch with each other for three years as Bianca stayed in New York. Once they met back up, everything changed.
The sisters spent the summer of 2003 recording music in Sierra’s bathroom, the most acoustic and isolated room in the apartment. Both sang, Sierra played the acoustic guitar and whatever improvised instruments they could find. These songs turned into their debut album, “La Maison De Mon Rêve”, which was originally meant to be distributed amongst their friends but instead, got them signed to Touch and Go Records.
Since then, they’ve released a handful of albums and worked with such luminaries as Anthony Hegarty, Devendra Banhart and Bjork producer Valgeir Sigurðsson. There’s never been anyone like them at this level, and there won’t be another for a very long time. Get involved now or miss out on something very special indeed.
Mac DeMarco
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