The Space Lady

The Space Lady
Based: La Junta, US

Label: Bongo Joe / Mississipi Records
Transcendentally beautiful, The Space Lady's music is returning to Earth. Transmitting messages of peace and harmony, The Space Lady began her odyssey on the streets of Boston in the late 70s, then San Francisco ten years later, playing versions of contemporary pop music with an accordion and dressed flamboyantly. Following the theft and destruction of her accordion , The Space Lady invested in a then-new Casio keyboard, complete with a phase shifter and headset mic, birthing an otherworldly new dimension to popular song that has captured the imaginations of the underground and its leading exponents ever since.

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Call it “primitive futurism,” says Susan Dietrich Schneider about her work. Since the early 70s she was busy as a street musician by the name of The Space Lady for about three decades. In 2013 her only cassette was re-released as an album; only after that did she start playing her first concerts in clubs. Earning a steadily growing cult following ever since, The Space Lady was finally able to show her music to the world, touring all over Europe and the US in a regular basis. The Californian artist is almost 70 in the meanwhile, but her voice is still as clear as a bell. With a winged astronaut helmet on her head, she covers “Major Tom” by Peter Schilling and Steppenwolf’s “Born To Be Wild” and sings her own songs about the journey into space and the desire for enlightenment in the earthly world.

After having toured successfully all around the world with her "Greatest Hits" record she felt it was time to record new songs, and so did she. In 2018 Bongo Joe and Mississipi Records released "On The Street Of Dreams"

Press

This music has transcended genre, style and fashion, opening up hearts and minds along the way.
- The Quietus

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Bathed in echo and a warm blanket of hiss, Suzy Soundz' voice is utterly without guile on her Casio covers and Outsider Art explorations
- The Guardian
Heart-warming, eccentric, and unselfconscious that attends to the fact that you don’t need ego and fancy gear to make great pop music.
- Dazed Digital
101 albums to hear before you die.
- NME

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Booking information

Territory: Worldwide
Availability: July 2021
Next Dates:
  • 08.07.2021 SK Trenčín - Pohoda Festival