After the success of the band that Demi Lovato presented in the country, we separated the names of five groups formed only by women
the passage of Demi Lovato through Brazil, with shows in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, marked the most rocky phase of the singer’s career. In addition to tracks from the newly released album Holy Fvckhowever, the artist’s performances still drew attention for the all-female band she formed to accompany her new era.
On stage, while Demi Lovato bet on powerful vocals, the melodies of their songs were in the hands of four great artists. Brittany Bowman stayed on battery, Leanne Bowes was responsible for the bass, Dani McGinley took over the keyboard and Nita Straussthe guitarist, stole the spotlight and gained hundreds of new fans.
The strength of women in international rock, then, was only reinforced by the Demi Lovato – being that Nita Straussfor example, abandoned the concerts of Alice Cooper to join the singer of ‘Cool for the summer‘. And luckily, there are many other all-female groups that bring the same importance when they take the stage.
Check out, below, five bands composed only by women that you have to know:
Voice of Baceprot
If Heavy Metal is known for breaking barriers, the band Voice of Baceprot emerged to overturn even more conservative concepts. Inspired by groups like Slipknot and system of a Downthe band was formed in 2014 by Firda Marsya Kurnia, Widi Rahmawati and Euis Siti Aisyahthree women born in Indonesia.
In 2021, the artists released ‘God, Allow Me (Please) to Play Music‘, a powerful track, which uses Metal to protest for the right to play rock in a religious nation, marked by the fanaticism of the faithful. In addition to the track, it’s still worth checking out the live session The Other Side of Metalism and the singles’School Revolution‘ and ‘[NOT] Public Property‘.
CRYPT
Formed in June 2019, the CRYPT emerged to integrate the national Death and Black Metal scenarios. With their first album released in June 2021, the band was born after Fernanda Lira and Luana Dametto left the already consolidated nervousjoining the formerHagbardTaina Bergamaschi and the Dutch Sonia Anubis.
In April of this year, however, the band announced that Sonia Anubis would no longer be part of the group, to concentrate on the band Snake Spell, from your country of origin. In her place, then, the guitarist Jessica di Falchi started accompanying the tours of the CRYPT.
mulamba
Having released her first album in 2018, the curitibana mulamba travels between rock and MPB styles with lyrics that discuss politics, violence against women and gender equality. Created in 2015, the band has Amanda Pacific, Cocoa de Sa, dear robin, Erica Silva, Fer Koppe and Naira Debertolis.
The Donnas
In 1933, four young Americans created a rock band to play at a school event. Years later, with seven albums already released, Brett Anderson, Allison Robertson, Maya Ford and Torry Castellano – which was later replaced by Amy Cesari – saw the band The Donnas take over the international scene.
Mixing punk, metal and classic rock references in their songs, the girl group rose to fame in the 2000s — they were even one of the main attractions at Chicago’s Lollapalooza in 2003. After years of success, however, the band disbanded in 2012, even amid rumors of recordings for an eighth album.
The Veronicas
With three studio albums, the Australian band The Veronicas is made up of twin sisters Jessica and Lisa Origliasso — who have already made it pretty clear that they don’t want to “be a pop duo with two girls singing about relationships.” “We have everything a rock band would have, so we are a band,” the sisters stated.
Inspired by bands like AC DCthe twins created the group in mid-2004, when they were 20 years old, and decided that the group name would be The Veronicas based on the character of Winona Ryder in the movie Heathers (1988). Years later, already in 2021, after a hiatus from the band, the sisters released two new albums, human and Godzilla.
Bonus: The Runaways
In Rouge to modern, world-famous K-pop girl groups, there are references to successful girl bands across the planet, regardless of musical style. the american The Runawayshowever, made history in the 1970s for featuring an all-female band that was successful in rock and roll.
Formed by the drummer Sandy West and the iconic guitarist Joan Jett in 1975, the band still had names like Micki Steele, Lita Ford, Peggy Foster, Cherie Currie, Vickie Blue, Laurie McAllister and Jackie Fox. With four studio albums, however, The Runaways disbanded in April 1979, after disagreements over which style the group should follow.
Source: Rollingstone
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