Scarlet Fever (band)
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Scarlet Fever is an all-female backing band touring with Cee Lo Green. Originally formed for promotional
Promotion (marketing)
Promotion is one of the four elements of marketing mix . It is the communication link between sellers and buyers for the purpose of influencing, informing, or persuading a potential buyer's purchasing decision....

 tour events, popularity of the "Fuck You" single and The Lady Killer
The Lady Killer (album)
The Lady Killer is the third studio album by American recording artist Cee Lo Green, released November 5, 2010, on Elektra Records. Production for the album was handled by Salaam Remi, Element, The Smeezingtons, Fraser T...

album led to multiple television appearances reaching an audience of millions in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 and North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

. With Green, they perform full length concerts and in opening acts for other major performers.

Origin

Scarlet Fever was formed in May, 2010, for the Cee Lo Green promotional tour of "What Part of Forever" (from the The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (soundtrack)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is the soundtrack album to the film The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. It is the third soundtrack in the film's chronology, and was released on June 8, 2010. The soundtrack was once again co-produced by Alexandra Patsavas, the music supervisor for the previous two films...

soundtrack). Auditions were held at the Musicians Institute
Musicians Institute
Musicians Institute is a privately owned for-profit music vocational school located in Hollywood, California. Although not a regionally accredited school, the school offers a variety of unaccredited Bachelor Degree, Associate Degree and Certificate programs in fields including contemporary music...

 located in Hollywood, California.
This group was televised on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that initially aired from May 25, 1992 to May 29, 2009, and resumed production on March 1, 2010. The fourth incarnation of the Tonight Show franchise made its debut on May 25, 1992, three days following Johnny...

(June 14, 2010),
and Lopez Tonight
Lopez Tonight
Lopez Tonight was an American late-night television talk show hosted by comedian George Lopez. The hour-long program premiered on November 9, 2009, on cable network TBS. Lopez was the first Mexican American to host a late-night talk show on an English-language network in the United States. The...

(June 30, 2010).

Additional auditions for keyboardist
Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...

 were held in August, 2010, and Theresa Flaminio
Theresa Flaminio
Theresa Flaminio is an American instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. Best known for performing with Scarlet Fever, the all-female backing band for Cee Lo Green. She also tours with Imagine Dragons, and performs with her own group, Khronic....

 joined the core group.
Their first tour, performing singles from The Lady Killer
The Lady Killer (album)
The Lady Killer is the third studio album by American recording artist Cee Lo Green, released November 5, 2010, on Elektra Records. Production for the album was handled by Salaam Remi, Element, The Smeezingtons, Fraser T...

album, began in Paris, France, with a televised appearance on Taratata
Taratata
Taratata is a French TV show showcasing live and pre-recorded footage of current rock acts. Presented by Nagui since its début in 1993, the show was initially shown on France 2. This show often involves surprise and unlikely duets, as well as brief interviews with the artists...

.
Other radio and satellite television appearances were taped for later broadcast on LeMouve, and Album de la semaine (Album of the week).

Their first concert performance at the Reeperbahn
Reeperbahn
The Reeperbahn is a street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife and also the city's red-light district...

 Festival
trod the trail blazed by The Beatles
The Beatles in Hamburg
The Beatles members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best regularly performed at different clubs in Hamburg, Germany, during the period from August 1960 to December 1962; a chapter in the group's history which honed their performance skills, widened their...

 in Hamburg, Germany. Their second concert appearance was a "surprise" addition to BBC 1Xtra Live from Wembley Arena
Wembley Arena
Wembley Arena is an indoor arena, at Wembley, in the London Borough of Brent. The building is opposite Wembley Stadium.-History:...

in London, England.

During multiple tours of Europe and North America, further radio and television performances followed on popular shows for BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

, Late Show with David Letterman
Late Show with David Letterman
Late Show with David Letterman is a U.S. late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS. The show debuted on August 30, 1993, and is produced by Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants Incorporated. The show's music director and band-leader of the house band, the CBS Orchestra, is...

, The Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...

, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! special show following the Academy Awards
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

, and many other venues.

Personnel

  • Sharon Aguilar
    Sharon Aguilar
    Sharon Aguilar is an American instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. She plays lead guitar and violin with Scarlet Fever, the all-female backing band touring with Cee Lo Green.- Biography :Sharon Aguilar was born in Panama,...

     (lead guitar, violin)
  • Brittany Brooks (drums)
  • Theresa Flaminio
    Theresa Flaminio
    Theresa Flaminio is an American instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. Best known for performing with Scarlet Fever, the all-female backing band for Cee Lo Green. She also tours with Imagine Dragons, and performs with her own group, Khronic....

     (keyboards, background vocals)
  • Regina Zernay Roberts (bass guitar, Moog synthesizer
    Moog synthesizer
    Moog synthesizer may refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Dr. Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for older-generation analog music synthesizers. The Moog company pioneered the commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled...

    )

Additional performers

  • Danielle Haim (guitar) appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that initially aired from May 25, 1992 to May 29, 2009, and resumed production on March 1, 2010. The fourth incarnation of the Tonight Show franchise made its debut on May 25, 1992, three days following Johnny...

    (June 14, 2010).
  • Chloe Pappas (guitar) appeared on Lopez Tonight
    Lopez Tonight
    Lopez Tonight was an American late-night television talk show hosted by comedian George Lopez. The hour-long program premiered on November 9, 2009, on cable network TBS. Lopez was the first Mexican American to host a late-night talk show on an English-language network in the United States. The...

    (June 30, 2010).
  • Jin Joo Lee (guitar) appeared in Paris, Hamburg, and London (late September and early October, 2010).

Live performances

Widely distributed performances that introduce a new album, single (or its variant wording), or significant phase of the tour.

The Lady Killer promotional tour

1st leg
September 21, 2010 Taratata
Taratata
Taratata is a French TV show showcasing live and pre-recorded footage of current rock acts. Presented by Nagui since its début in 1993, the show was initially shown on France 2. This show often involves surprise and unlikely duets, as well as brief interviews with the artists...

"Fuck You"
September 24, 2010 Reeperbahn
Reeperbahn
The Reeperbahn is a street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife and also the city's red-light district...

 Festival
"Fuck You" – "Perfect Day"
September 25, 2010 BBC 1Xtra Live from Wembley Arena
Wembley Arena
Wembley Arena is an indoor arena, at Wembley, in the London Borough of Brent. The building is opposite Wembley Stadium.-History:...

"Forget You"
October 8, 2010
(October 5, 2010)
Later... with Jools Holland "Fuck You" – "Old Fashioned" – "Lonely Teardrops
Lonely Teardrops
"Lonely Teardrops" is a song recorded and released as a single in 1958 by R&B singer Jackie Wilson on the Brunswick label. It is a 1999 Grammy Hall of Fame Inductee...

"
2nd leg
October 26, 2010 BBC 1Xtra "Wildflower" – "Forget You"
November 3, 2010 BBC Live Lounge "Forget You" – "Radioactive
Radioactive (Kings of Leon song)
"Radioactive" is a song by American rock band Kings of Leon, and is the first single to be released from their 2010 album Come Around Sundown. It is the second track on the album....

"
November 8, 2010 Late Show with David Letterman
Late Show with David Letterman
Late Show with David Letterman is a U.S. late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS. The show debuted on August 30, 1993, and is produced by Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants Incorporated. The show's music director and band-leader of the house band, the CBS Orchestra, is...

"F--- --u!" (words silently omitted)
November 9, 2010 The Colbert Report "Fox News"
November 11, 2010
(November 3, 2010)
The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

 How I Wrote ...
"Fuck You" (acoustic)
November 11, 2010 Symmetry Live Concert Series "The Lady Killer Theme" – "Cho Cha" – "ChamPain" –
"Bodies" – "Wildflower" – "I Want You
I Want You (Cee Lo Green song)
"I Want You" is the fourth official single from American soul singer Cee Lo Green's third studio album, The Lady Killer. The single was released via digital download and CD single on June 5, 2011. The single version of the track is a slightly different remix of the track, and has been issued under...

" – "Satisfied" –
"Cry Baby" – "Old Fashioned" – "Bright Lights Bigger City
Bright Lights Bigger City
"Bright Lights Bigger City" is the third single from American soul singer Cee Lo Green's third studio album, The Lady Killer. The song was produced by Ben H. Allen III and Graham Marsh, and written by Cee Lo, Tony Reyes and Ben H. Allen III. The single was released on March 27, 2011, and has so...

" –
"Fool for You" – "It's OK
It's OK (Cee Lo Green song)
"It's OK" is the second single from American soul singer Cee Lo Green's third studio album, The Lady Killer. The song is produced by Element, and written by Cee Lo, Element and Noel Fisher. The single was released on December 27, 2010 and has so far peaked at number 20 on the UK Singles Chart...

" – "Fuck You"
3rd leg
December 6, 2010 Capitol FM Jingle Bell Ball "Forget You"
December 9, 2010 Le Grande Journal "Fuck You" – "Bright Lights Bigger City"
December 18, 2010 Schlag den Raab
Schlag den Raab
Schlag den Raab is a game show airing on the German television channel ProSieben. A candidate who can beat Stefan Raab in a number of disciplines wins the jackpot.- Premise :...

"Fuck You"
December 19, 2010 Children in Need 2010
Children in Need 2010
Children in Need 2010 was a campaign held in the United Kingdom to raise money for Children in Need. 2010 marked the 30th anniversary of the appeal which culminated in a live broadcast on BBC One which began on the evening of Friday 19th November and ran until the early hours of Saturday 20th...

December 25, 2010 Top of the Pops Christmas special

  • Parenthetical dates indicate the performance had an earlier limited broadcast or recording.

2011 concert tours

The 2011 schedule included full length concerts and opening acts for other major performers, interspersed with continued album promotion.
Their public concert at American University
American University
American University is a private, Methodist, liberal arts, and research university in Washington, D.C. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University", which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893...


was followed the next day by a Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...


appearance promoting the singles "Bright Lights Bigger City
Bright Lights Bigger City
"Bright Lights Bigger City" is the third single from American soul singer Cee Lo Green's third studio album, The Lady Killer. The song was produced by Ben H. Allen III and Graham Marsh, and written by Cee Lo, Tony Reyes and Ben H. Allen III. The single was released on March 27, 2011, and has so...

" and "Forget You" to a broad American audience.
They opened for Prince
Prince (musician)
Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...

 at Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan and located at 8th Avenue, between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station.Opened on February 11, 1968, it is the...

,
gave charity performances for Woman's Day
Woman's Day
Woman's Day is aimed at a female readership, covering such subjects as food, nutrition, fitness, beauty and fashion. The magazine edition is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines....

 Red Dress awards
(Lincoln Center)
and the Women’s Cancer Research Fund (Regent Beverly Wilshire),
had a joint concert with Big Boi
Big Boi
Antwan André Patton , better known by his stage name Big Boi, is an American rapper, song-writer, record producer and actor, best known for being a member of American hip hop duo OutKast alongside André 3000. His work in the duo has produced six studio albums. During the duo's hiatus, he and André...

 and Goodie Mob
Goodie Mob
Goodie Mob is a Hip Hop act based in Atlanta, Georgia that formed in 1991 and currently consists of members Cee-Lo Green, Khujo, T-Mo and Big Gipp.-History:The group's name acts as a double backronym...

 at Club Nokia,
then appeared the next week during the NBA All-Star Weekend Slam Dunk Contest at Staples Center
Staples Center
Staples Center is a multi-purpose sports arena in Downtown Los Angeles. Adjacent to the L.A. Live development, it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center complex along Figueroa Street. Opening on October 17, 1999, it is one of the major sporting facilities in the Greater Los Angeles...

.

They returned to Europe for Shockwaves NME Awards
NME Awards
The NME Awards is an annual music awards show in the United Kingdom, founded by the music magazine, NME .The first awards show was held in 1953 as the NME Poll Winners Concerts, shortly after the founding of the magazine....

 Big Gig
opening for Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters is an American alternative rock band originally formed in 1994 by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of his previous band. The band got its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War...

 at Wembley Arena
Wembley Arena
Wembley Arena is an indoor arena, at Wembley, in the London Borough of Brent. The building is opposite Wembley Stadium.-History:...

,
and the charity Let's Dance for Comic Relief
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
Let's Dance for Comic Relief is a British television programme shown on BBC One, featuring celebrities performing famous dance routines to raise money for the charity Comic Relief. The programme is currently presented by Steve Jones and Alex Jones, who replaced previous host Claudia Winkleman in...

.
Then the next day, they all flew back halfway around the world for a late night Jimmy Kimmel Live! special show following the Academy Awards
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

.

The March–April European concert tour began in
Glasgow,
Manchester,
Birmingham,
and then London, England at the historic Shepherd's Bush Empire.
Crossing the Channel
The channel
The channel may refer to:*the means of distribution of components involved in producing consumer electronics.*the English Channel...

, they played in
Paris,
Antwerp,
Amsterdam,
Zurich,
and Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

.
Finally, they returned for a televised appearance on Later... with Jools Holland,
then finished the tour with the twice rescheduled concert in Bristol, England.

The April–May American concert tour began at the Coachella Festival, where Cee Lo arrived a half hour late after a delayed flight and heavy traffic into the site.
Organizers cut short the performance
for only the second time in Coachella history,
causing consternation for both audience and musicians.
Performances received more favorable reviews at
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

,
Morgantown, West Virginia
Morgantown, West Virginia
Morgantown is a city in Monongalia County, West Virginia. It is the county seat of Monongalia County. Placed along the banks of the Monongahela River, Morgantown is the largest city in North-Central West Virginia, and the base of the Morgantown metropolitan area...

,
SunFest
SunFest
SunFest is a musical and art festival held annually on the first week of May in West Palm Beach, Florida. Being the state's largest waterfront music and art festival SunFest attracts more than 275,000 visitors. The festival and the patrons that it attracts have a very positive impact on the...

 in West Palm Beach, Florida
West Palm Beach, Florida
West Palm Beach, is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and is the most populous city in and county seat of Palm Beach County, the third most populous county in Florida with a 2010 population of 1,320,134. The city is also the oldest incorporated municipality in South Florida...

,
the Schaeffer Eye Center Crawfish Boil in Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...

,
the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....

,
and the Extravaganza
Extravaganza (Music Festival)
Extravaganza is an annual free campus music festival held at the University of California, Santa Barbara that began in 1979 and has been held every year since 1989. It takes place towards the end of spring quarter and is funded by a student lock-in fee...

 Music Festival in Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...

.
Scheduling problems reprised at the Hangout Music Festival
Hangout Music Festival
The Hangout Music Festival is an annual three day music festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama. It is the first major music festival held on the beach in the city. It was attended by 13,000–15,000 people per day in 2010. Attendance in 2011 had to be capped at 35,000 per day, an unprecedented number for...

 in Gulf Shores, Alabama
Gulf Shores, Alabama
-External links:*...

. After playing in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 earlier the same day, their flight was delayed. This time, police escorted them through traffic. Meanwhile, the Foo Fighters graciously played during the delay.
Serendipitously, Cee Lo arrived as the Foo Fighters covered Prince's Darling Nikki
Darling Nikki
"Darling Nikki" is a song produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince and originally released on his Grammy Award-winning 1984 album, Purple Rain. Though the song was not released as a single, it gained wide notoriety for its sexual lyrics...

, a song they'd performed together (above). He joined them on stage and transitioned to Scarlet Fever for the remainder of the set.
Sharon Aguilar reminisced, “Plugged [my guitar] right into the amp; no time for a pedalboard… no fancy in-ear monitors or anything like that… More energy… it ended up being probably my favorite live show that we’ve ever done.”

The band also taped television performances for VH1 Storytellers
VH1 Storytellers
Storytellers is a television music series produced by the VH1 network.In each episode artists perform in front of a live audience, and tell stories about their music, writing experiences and memories, somewhat similar to MTV Unplugged...


and FUSE TV
Fuse TV
Fuse is an American national television network dedicated exclusively to music. It features original series and specials, exclusive interviews, live concerts and video blocks....

 Talking to Strangers.
They performed live on The Today Show
The Today Show
Today is an iconic American morning news and talk show airing every morning on NBC. Debuting on January 14, 1952, it was the first of its genre on American television and in the world. The show is also the fourth-longest running American television series...

.

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