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Cherry Lee Mewis, 23 years young, a pupil of music that has soul, and is an old soul herself. 
Born in Leamington Spa and raised in North Wales, Cherry started a group when she was nine, and where the other girls would want to go and play outside at lunch break, she would make them stay up in the music room and practice! While Cherry, drawn to singing, began 'learning her craft.' Her teen years spent endlessly gigging in pubs and bars, developing her smoky, husky, edgy voice, pushing it beyond the boundaries, she found a place where she belonged. "Where my mum would love Motown, my dad would be more into the rock 'n' roll and the psychedelic, really obscure 60's stuff. He introduced me to Jeff Buckley, Edith Piaf and Janis Joplin" - It wasn't until later on, that Cherry became immersed into blues and R'n'B. Cherry left high school at 16, and threw herself into her music career. when she was 17, Cherry started working with producer Stevie 'Dirty Cash' V. "For the best part of a year, I had time to really develop in the studio and not work under the commercial constraints that most new artists do." In 2003 Cherry released her debut single Snake on white label and it entered the Music Week Urban Club Chart as the highest new entry, reviewed in Blues and Soul Magazine. Accompanied by a 24 date UK tour. In 2006 Cherry completed an album with Chris 'ROCKIZM' Patrick, using forefront beats and lyrics, honest and uncensored emotions began to see the light of day. 2007 is looking promising for Cherry. Having recently performed alongside The Feeling and The Alarm at the 2006 BBC Children in Need concert, she's been developing her self-penned songs as well as releasing 'Little Girl Blue' on VaVoom records (VaVoom CLM01). |
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The wealth of experience at VaVoom work brilliantly with Cherry's fresh approach. Resulting in a mix of warm vintage blues and soul with Cherry letting her voice go where it's supposed to go. "I put as much into the arrangement of a song as I do into the writing of one..." concludes Cherry, "This is music that I enjoy. I hope my angle on it makes people that bit more interested.""I'm not trying to dress my feelings up. I don't want to censor myself in order to sell more. Self indulgence, is to some degree at the root of all creative art..." |
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Cherry Lee Mewis - Little Girl Blue (VaVoom CLM01) Released 2007
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Cherry teams up with multi-faceted guitarist Max Milligan, and producer and former Argent singer, John Verity to make 'Little Girl Blue', a mixture of 'forgotten', obscure blues tracks, with a raw, unplugged feel.
Both Max and John's wealth of experience work brilliantly with Cherry's fresh approach, resulting in a mix of warm vintage, gut-bucket blues, with rootsy sparse guitar style. Covering songs by Memphis Minnie, Robert Johnson and Jeff Buckley, these blues numbers have still been left in their original, impassioned state, at the same time leaving Cherry's fingerprints on them. Cherry Lee Mewis (vocals, guitar) Max Milligan (guitar, mandolin, bass guitar) John Verity (guitar, backing vocals) Dave Jenkins (double bass) Jeff Dakin (Blues harp) |
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Cherry Lee Mewis and Max Milligan - Wade in the Water
"Wade in the Water", a Negro spiritual, was originally sung to encourage runaway slaves to walk in the water (instead of on the land) in order to avoid dogs and trackers in their journeys north. Here Cherry and Max record the track for the 'Little Girl Blue' CD at JVs Recording Studio |
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 Cherry Lee Mewis and Max Milligan - On the Radio
Cherry and Max's recent return visit to Sue Marchant's show on BBC Radio Cambridge, including a live performance of Cherry's track "Ugly Night" and an exclusive version of Billie Holiday's "Travelling Light." |
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