Artist description TEA is a solo artist, a very solo artist. She constructs her songs out of a recording studio she built herself in San Francisco’s Mission District. Here she writes all the songs, sings, plays all the instruments, produces, engineers and mixes everything herself. With a strong, evocative voice and unique slide guitar playing a beautiful, emotionally grabbing, pop album was conceived in 1998. This was TEA’s self-titled debut that inspired the critics to say: “a lovely, soulful voice”, “a dynamite and diverse CD”, “full of brilliant songcraft and brawny guitar”, “lush and perfectly understated”.

Music Style Alternative\Power Pop

Musical Influences Jeff Buckley, Cocteau Twins, the Fall, the Clash, the Smiths, Pretenders

Similar Artists Elastica, P.J. Harvey, Cocteau Twins, Beck, Jeff Buckley, Patti Smith, Radiohead, Hole, Ani DiFranco

Artist History TEA is the solo project from former guitarist/songwriter of NuMillennia/BMG band Her Majesty the Baby. TEA has been a 2 time Lilith Fair finalist and was recently featured in a documentary about women guitar players which aired on national public television. TEA has worked alongside such notable producers as Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith,Suzanne Vega,James) and Greg Hawkes (The Cars)and spent most of 1999 working with MainMan(Bowie,John Cougar,Iggy Pop,Lou Reed). TEA achieved critical acclaim in the San Francisco club scene as a founding member of Her Majesty the Baby, which had been billed with such top-notch acts as P.J. Harvey, the Pixies, Cake, Fugazi, the Geraldine Fibbers, the Throwing Muses, the Proclaimers and the Flaming Lips. Her Majesty the Baby's last album, Mary, which was also co-produced and mixed by TEA, charted on over 170 college radio stations and won numerous awards, including the New Music Challenge on Live 105 (KITS). As founding member of HMtB, TEA received press in Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, SPIN, CMJ, San Francisco Chronicle, BAM, SF Bay Guardian, the SF Weekly, the Washington Post, Electronic Musician, and many others.

Group Members TEA

Instruments Guitars, Bass, Drums, Vocals all by TEA

Albums TEA copyright 1999 Jasmine Fancy LTD.

Press Reviews "Terri Winston's(TEA) confident guitar and smooth, deep voice were a relief in an indie music world of high-pitched women singing amidst muddy guitars" -East Bay Express "With a lovely, soulful voice, brilliant songcraft, and brawny guitar, former Her Majesty the Baby frontwoman Terri Winston plays rich, textured, folk-tinged alt-rock in her solo project TEA and on her dynamite and diverse self-titled CD, on which she played all the instruments as well as produced, engineered, and mixed." -East Bay Express "..recalls the best of vintage 4AD." - BAM Magazine, "TEA is special. She is a one woman wonder from San Francisco. She has won many awards in America." -ABUSE/London,"...standout tracks include TEA's wonderful 'Satellite'.." -RockSound/London, "...lush and jagged alt-rock songs with hip-hop beats, dreamy guitars, and smooth, soulful vocals." -Express

Location San Francisco, CA - USA

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