Mollie King

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MOLLIE KING- singer, guitarist, poet, songwriter. Moving from a town that is actually called Fairyland on top of Lookout Mountain, Georgia to New York at seventeen, she was the singer and lyricist for many different bands back in the day on the Lower East Side, including the jazz/hip-hop/metal of Kingstone and was the first lead singer in the psychedelic/blues/improv of Elliot Sharps band-Terraplane. Terraplane is still performing with Eric Mingus as the lead singer/bassist. She also sang and recorded with the heavy rock band- Ten Ton Gusto, led by Claudius King. The lead guitarist for Kingstone and Ten Ton was Tom "Huey" Morgan who went on to front-The Fun Lovin' Criminals. After four years in NYC, Mollie left for Europe- played at festivals, made her first solo record in Hamburg, sang a duet with Reverend Al Green at the Royal Festival Hall in London and performed on live radio in Prague. At the free town of Christiania in Copenhagen, Mollie met a circus-Arkaos-punk band from London called the Thunderdogs and joined their European tour. After returning to the States, she continued to travel, living and playing in Austin, Seattle, Hawaii and Los Angeles. For two years she was a vocalist in the revolutionary group Freedom Tribe. Mollie performed at Native American and Tibetan benefit concerts, including a performance at the 1998 Sundance film festival at a party for the opening of the award winning film "Smoke Signals." In Hawaii and in California, Mollie had the beautiful experience of performing several times for the Honorable Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and his Sangha at Pema Osel Ling and the Lotus Gate Sanctuary. While in Los Angeles, she did backing vocals on two songs for the classic Lysa Flores debut album "Tree of Hope." The drummer of Lysa's band is the legendary DJ Bonebrake of X. Mollie was transformed into a cartoon on MTV for Project Incognito by genius animator Bob Sabiston of the Richard Linklater film "Waking Life" & "Scanner Darkly." She also belly danced in Ben Harper's video "Faded." For the last eight years, Mollie has collaborated with fashion designer/avatar-Elisa Jimenez and the HungerWorld, modeling and orchestrating the music for her NYC fashion week performances, two shows in Los Angeles and one in Austin during SXSW 2007. At several of the Hungerworld fantasy shows, Mollie sang to the music of the supertalented artist, Melissa Auf Der Maur- bassist of Hole & Smashing Pumpkins. At two of Elisa's early magical exhibitions, Mollie played and sang with the brilliant, superfoxxx Joan Wasser aka JoanAsPoliceWoman. Mollie played an hour long live solo/acoustic radio show on WBAI 99.5FM NYC. Asahi Beer Company chose Mollie to be featured on a photo wall of up-and-coming NYC musicians at their new beer hall in Tokyo. She was the central character of a documentary film about NYC women in rock called "Fireflies." Mollie made another art & music movie called "Afternoon at the Lotus Palace," filmed at the Chelsea Hotel where she wrote most of the songs for the first band album. Mollie and lead guitarist/powerhouse Henry Gutierrez, produced the 11 track LOTUS 33 debut CD "Song of the Cyclone," including the fantastic playing of drummer-Hector Becerra and bassist- Brett Bass. It was a family affair. Mollie also released a 5 song solo/acoustic CD "Seed." LOTUS 33 was awarded "Band of the Year 2003" by NYC magazine Talent In Motion. Henry and Mollie played in Union Square Park for the Not In Our Name Rally Against the Death Penalty. In 2004, they performed together in Scotland at a castle for the fairytale Wallace wedding and at clubs in London & all over England and Spain. Way too many shows to count in NYC-performances at Joe's Pub, Mercury Lounge, The Delancey, CBGB's & CBGB Gallery, Piano's, Bowery Ballroom, Crash Mansion, Rothko, Tonic, Makor, Arlene Grocery, The Knitting Factory, Lit, Fez, and also a sold out night at the legendary Antone's in Austin, TX. Over the last few years, a new band was born- STARCHILD the electric, explosion of Henry Gutierrez and his mind-blowing music. Mollie sings back-up/duets & lead on the songs that she wrote and contributed to the project. STARCHILD performed at ABC Studios for a Grammy Party celebrating Native American Music and their show was broadcast on the Jumbotron overlooking Times Square. Oh, and ofcourse all of STARCHILD marched, sang and played at every massive peace rally (a lot) in NYC and Washington D.C....millions more did too, the media fails to get the beauty of it* In the Spring of 2005, Henry Gutierrez relocated the STARCHILD experience to San Antonio, TX and now Mollie is back to solo shows in NYC. She has a secret plan of starting a psychedelic-art-drone-n-roll-pow-wow-circus band. Mollie and Henry recorded the superheavybeautiful STARCHILD debut CD together and Mollie is stonefree in the sunset in a life guard chair at Rockaway Beach on the album cover. STARCHILD returned to NYC in '05 & '06 to play packed shows at LIT (with mod-rockstars HEADQUARTERS), CBGB's (made a live record), and at The Delancey (to our surprise, opening for Norah Jones's mystery incognito glam punk band- El MAD MO). Although they are now in different places, Henry and Mollie continue to play together whenever the time is right either in NYC or Texas. In Sept.'06 MK & STARCHILD played ACL Festival after-parties in Austin & toured the South. In March '06, '07 & '08 MK & STARCHILD Rocked SXSW in Austin! A new recording of Mollie King's music is coming soon... Summer of Love '08 and she is currently compiling 13 years of poetry, journals, drawings, paintings and photographs into her first book. The STARCHILD song "After All" which is an acoustic duet with Henry & Mollie was just chosen from tens of thousands of songs by Sam Ash Music to be on their international compilation available soon at all Sam Ash Music stores. Stay turned on Children, it's just getting good*
"Songs that go deep, sung in a voice that strokes the soul"-Frederick Geobold WBAI 99.5 FM NYC
HENRY GUTIERREZ- singer/songwriter, lead guitarist -fronted his own funk orchestra, Gingbreadmen out of Austin,TX for eight years. The ensemble played throughout the U.S. at numerous festivals and events, including the 1996 Olympics opening for Tito Puente. Gingbreadmen showcased with Tower of Power for two sold-out nights at the House of Blues in New Orleans. The group also opened for many other musical greats such as Medeski, Martin & Wood, Fishbone, Blues Traveler, Gov't Mule, Taj Mahal, Los Lobos, The P-Funk All Stars and Maceo Parker. Gingbreadmen were voted Best Funk Band at the 97 Texas Music Awards. Their record Fresh Bread Baked Daily was in the Top Ten of the Texas music charts for over three years. Henry met Mollie in Austin many years ago and reconnected with her in NYC to form LOTUS 33. Together, they played all over NYC and eventually arrived at another frontier called STARCHILD* STARCHILD released a fantastic record and performed together for three years. In Winter '07, Henry returned to San Antonio, TX and started his Epic one man band experience called HENRY AND THE INVISIBLES*