Lollise is a musician, visual artist and fashion designer from Botswana, currently living in NYC. Using sound, color and movement, Lollise tells stories of real and imagined worlds, multidimensional and nuanced, historical and futuristic.
After many years of recording and touring with Akoya Afrobeat, Underground System and the FELA! band, Lollise shares her own bold Afro-futurist pop sound, rich with analog synths, layers of percussion and gentle waves of ambient noise. She self-released two EPs before completing her debut full-length album. Working closely with drummer/producer Morgan Greenstreet, Lollise creates hybrid songs for this moment, taking influence from the music she grew up with - Setswana and Kalanga folk songs, '80s and '90s South African electronic bubblegum and kwaito - and the music she has been exposed to in New York, including Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat and gritty new wave and art-pop. Dressed in her dazzling original attire, designed and crafted by hand, Lollise performs with a potent energy and striking commitment to the music, in body and in spirit.
United States