New Zealand based singer/songwriter HERA has been living, writing and performing for 12 years now whilst carving out a very successful career in her native country of Iceland. Not an easy task given the global separation, but one that was richly rewarded in 2003 when she was named Best Female Artist at that year’s Icelandic Music Awards, a category dominated for the previous 10 years by global superstar Bjork! Hera’s Icelandic debut album also delivered her a Gold Record there being backed up by 37 live concerts in two months, the most extensive Icelandic tour ever undertaken by a solo female artist...
A prodigious talent from an early age, Hera began playing classical guitar in Reykjavik at the age of 8 building an impressive collection of her own self-penned songs by 13… In 1994 her family moved to New Zealand where she started playing her own shows building her a small but very dedicated fan base.
Bottom line this young lady has a beautiful voice, whether she's in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere. Just listening to her will make your day. Tremendous!
Litre of me
'Litre of me' from the album 'Rattle my bones' Recording at Tandem studios 2011 with Toby Ricketts, filmed by Daniel Lynch
It's a funeral thing
This is a new song (my first ukulele song) from the upcoming album 'Rattle my bones' Recorded on May 28th 2011 (on an iphone 4) at Pegasus bay winery after a few lovely wines...
With extra special thanks to Gummi for the most wonderful ukulele :) [herasings]
Maybe Logical
The queen of the Olympian deities. She is a daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and wife and sister of Zeus. Hera was mainly worshipped as a goddess of marriage and birth. It is said that each year Hera's virginity returns by bathing in the well Canathus. The children of Hera and Zeus are the smith-god Hephaestus, the goddess of youth Hebe, and the god of war Ares. According to some sources, however, her children were conceived without the help of a man, either by slapping her hand on the ground or by eating lettuce: thus they were born, not out of love but out of lust and hatred.
Star Quality, with Nick Cave.
