Felice Rosser, born Detroit, Michigan

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...

 is a singer, songwriter, bass player, actor and writer.

Felice Rosser was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She attended Cass Technical High School

Cass Technical High School

The Cass Tech Technicians football team is a high school football program in Division 1 Public School League, representing the prestigious Cass Technical High School in Detroit, MI. Cass Tech High School has long been recognized nationwide for its extraordinary football program dating back to its...

 in Detroit before enrolling at Barnard College

Barnard College

Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. The campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough...

 in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. She now lives and works in New York. She is known for her powerful and emotional voice, her musical skill as a bass player and as a singer and songwriter. She is further known as an actress.

Music

Rosser’s musical career began playing bass in bands with singer/guitarist deerfrance and performance artist and writer Jennifer Jazz.
She became interested in playing reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 music and joined Sistren, an all female band led by drummer Annette Brissett

Annette Brissett

-Biography:Brissett was born in Jamaica and sang in church as a child as well as learning drums from her brother, before moving with her family to New York City at the age of twelve. In the early 1970s she began her career as a drummer, supoorting visiting Jamaican singers. She also began a singing...

. She has played with many musicians and artists including Bush Tetras

Bush Tetras

Bush Tetras are an American post-punk band from New York City, popular in the Manhattan club scene in the early 1980s but never achieving much mainstream success. Their music combined funk rhythms and dissonant guitar riffs.-History:...

, Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist painting.-Early life:...

, Gary Lucas

Gary Lucas

Gary Lucas is an American guitarist, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, a soundtrack composer for film and television, and an international recording artist with over a dozen solo albums to date. He has been described as "one of the best and most original guitarists in America" ; a "legendary leftfield...

 and Ari-Up of the Slits. Rosser leads Faith, a group that includes guitarist Nao Hakamada. Faith has released a 7”inch “Like Springtime b/w Lost”, and 2 CD’s 2001’s “Time to Fall in Love Again” and 2007’s “A Place Where Love Can Grow” on Cool Baby Music. Faith also has a song “Time to Fall in Love Again” in the film “The Substitute part 2.”

Film and Acting

Rosser has acted in the films including; “Permanent Vacation

Permanent Vacation (film)

Permanent Vacation is a 1980 drama film directed, written and produced by Jim Jarmusch. It was the director's first release, and was shot on 16 mm film shortly after he dropped out of film school. This film is often credited as the birth of the director's original style, and character schemes...

” directed by Jim Jarmusch

Jim Jarmusch

James R. "Jim" Jarmusch is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor and composer. Jarmusch has been a major proponent of independent cinema, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.-Early life:...

, “You are not I” directed by Sara Driver

Sara Driver

Sara Driver is an independent filmmaker born in Westfield, NJ. She produced two early films for Jim Jarmusch, helping him to gain international attention and success...

 and “Born in Flames

Born in Flames

Born in Flames is a 1983 documentary-style feminist science fiction film by Lizzie Borden that explores racism, classism, sexism and heterosexism in an alternative United States Socialist Democracy.-Plot:...

” directed by Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden (filmmaker)

Lizzie Borden is an American filmmaker. Originally named Linda Elizabeth Borden, she took on the name of the American folklore figure Lizzie Borden in the early 1970s....

. Rosser has also done theater work with The Puerto Rican National Traveling Theater and the off-Broadway

Off-Broadway

Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts...

production of “Driving on the Left Side.”

Recordings

Discography
Singles
7 inch — Like Springtime/’Lost

Albums

Time to Fall in Love Again 2000 /Cool Baby Music,

A Place Where Love Can Grow 2007 /Cool Baby Music

External links

• Faith http://www.faithny.com