About HONORÉ
HONORÉ is musical magic. Raised in Detroit by Creole parents, she was steeped in music from the moment she took her first breath. Related to Jelly Roll Morton on her father’s side and Little Walter on her mother’s, it was inevitable that she would step up to take her place among the greats. With a sparkling 5-octave range and award-winning songwriting skills, HONORÉ with her band The Detroit Lovers heralds the second coming of Soul with her fresh new take. Referencing the musical stylings of Stax and the Philly sound with hints of the infectious Tokyo City Pop soft aesthetic, the sound is fresh … yet familiar. Her new album “Right On Time” wraps you in velvet orchestral arrangements, soulful, soaring vocals, a landscape full of deeply satisfying, infectious hooks and unreserved lyric where love is on full display. Luscious, luxurious and alluring, HONORÉ’s Right On Time is high Soul fantasy at its organic best.
Her first single, out May 23rd 2025, is a new classic; Innocent and Real is a heartfelt, filled-to-the-brim-with-hooks tribute to love’s authenticity that plays as a true paean to music, undulating with lush abandon through a thick landscape of orchestral and vocal brilliance. Listen close: there’s even a bass clarinet in there!
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An important aspect of HONORÉ’s music is the notion of Human Expertise: no AI, and very little electronics are ever used in her music (a little synth and Moog, and of course recording necessitates the use of computers). Each instrument has a real human playing it. This has critical importance for HONORÉ, as the humanities - and the pleasure of making music - is at a cross-roads. Just having art without the direct hand of humans creating it circumvents the very joy of being a human. All that is left is the drudgery of non-art work, when the real purpose and pleasure of an artist’s life is in making art. Downplaying the skill and time it takes to create art robs an artist of their reason to be (and non-artist humans, too! Believe it; humans just have a need to make things for the pleasure and solace the act of creating brings), and robbing a human of the reason to be is a terrible thing, probably the worst thing. HONORÉ is committed to employing human instrumentalists and visual artists wherever and whenever she can, and is committed to paying them decently and well.
HONORÉ is putting her money where her mouth is. That is respecting the artist.
Long live art. Long live the artists.
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