BLURBS
CMJ New Music Report
"Think a young Gwen Stefani tussling with Generation X... leaving blood and sweat on stage amid a flurry of fuzzed out pop."
Music-reviewer.com
"You can probably draw a direct line from the Shangri-Las to Blondie to Demetra."
Left of the Dial Mag
"Producing frenetic pop infused with sometimes jazzy, commanding vocals "
OurStage
"Demetra is a capable frontwoman with a dynamic vocal range that goes from seductive speak-singing to a soaring, spunk-filled snarl with ease."
Demetra was born a performer. When she was a child, she taught herself how to play, read and write music, forcing her family members to perform alongside her in countless original plays and movies. She was a student of dance for twelve years and played a major role in all the school musicals. She attended specialized high school, Brooklyn Tech, where she was President of the Drama Club and studied politics and film in college. "I believe what makes art in the new millennium so special is that we have so much recorded cultural history to draw on," Demetra explains, "and my studies make me the kind of artist I want to be." A master at re-working old themes and making them new, Demetra's current brand of electronic pop combines her love of soul, rock and new wave music with a visual aesthetic rich in historical imagery and symbolism.
Demetra wrote, co-produced, and played the keyboards on the tracks off her upcoming debut solo EP, co-produced by Ray Balconis (Kim Sozzi, Deborah Cox)
Her prior projects included a dance-rock album with her band, Seratonin, which was the #2 most added album on the CMJ charts and a pop-punk group of the same name. Demetra has also written several children's musicals and worked for several years teaching music in East New York, Brooklyn and Astoria, Queens.
PHOTOS
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VIDEO
ONE MINUTE TEASER
from One Life Charity Event
_ SOIREE
10/9/2010
CALENDAR
March 25
Live w/ DJ Rogue
_ R Bar, 218 Bowery
November 16
Video Release Party- Private Screening _ Dumbo Screening Room
October 10
Soiree _ Crash Mansion- NTAF Charity Event
Don't Wreck It
Hit me with an opener to get me where you want me to go
If you want me to shake, don't forget to wake me, yeah
Spin the music baby, don't you spin the lies you love to compose
If you wanted to break the law, why didn't you warn me, yeah?
A piranha like you's gonna show me all the tricks up your sleeve
Hit me with rock-n-roll baby
It's sad I took your wine, now what's your line, now what you want a girl to believe?
Cause that's just rock-n-roll too much
Don't wreck it, I'll be here all night / Don't you, don't you, d-don't you wreck it baby
DJ play the music & I promise I won't put up a fight / Don't you, don't you, d-don't you wreck it baby
Play me like I'm vinyl, make it final, cue the music now blow
So you wanted to make it, why did you fake it, yeah?
Fade it in and out, without a doubt, my how your lying it grows
If you wanted to break my heart, why didn't you warn me, yeah
Boy you want to take me for a primadonna, not in your dreams
You could be mine, I ate the line, but now you're not as cool as you seem
Cause you just rock-n-roll too much
Baby, play your anthem, play my will like you're a phantom, more vibrato is the motto, it will make you shake your bottom, Hydroplane it, but maintain it just in time, if you think it's bitch control you're out of line, Wo-oh-oh-wo-oh, you don't want to take it slow-oh-oh-woh-oh, Hit me with your battlecry, it's the beat that makes you hi-i-i-i-gh
