Traditional Country & Swing Originals delivered on a billow of sultry, jazz-infused smoke.
2017 Academy of Western Artists' Western Swing Female Vocalist of the Year
5x AWA Nominee and 4x Ameripolitan Nominee,
Western Swing
Meet the singing, songwriting, cigar smoking, pinup- Cheryl Deserée, whose heart & swingin’ hips belong to fiddle & steel, sultry horns & the gentle sway of the palm trees. This daughter of Faleapuna & Vaimoso, Samoa, was born and raised where her father went to college in the 80’s, Long Beach, California. Age 5, she relocated with her mother’s side to the wrong side of the tracks in the desert for grade school before becoming emancipated at the age of 16 and moving to Baltimore from 1999-2014. In Baltimore she honed her music in local roots rock band House & Home, fronted by co-writer Benjamin Douglas.
Deserée has not sat down since moving to Nashville in the fall of 2014, collecting several nominations from The Ameripolitan Music Awards and The Academy of Western Artists, having won the 2017 AWA Western Swing Female Vocalist of the Year for the latter. She works commercially doing harmony and demo work and has recorded in prestigious studios such as Ocean Way, Slack Key, Sound Stage, The Sound Emporium, & Blackbird. She has recorded with Will Hoge, Dale Watson, members of The Black Opry, Riders in the Sky, The Mavericks and Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel. She has co-written with Dale Watson, Ranger Doug Green, Paul Kramer & more. Together with her band her band, The Sugar Moon Swingers, she performs regularly in and around Nashville & Texas. Deserée writes about life with wit, grit & honesty. She’s out to prove that good music is timeless and relevant. Her music is proudly queer, indigenous, political, oddball & old school.
