Known for the honey timbre of her voice, Shèr delivers a fluid and soulful sound that fuses her Louisiana roots with R&B, electronic, pop, and Caribbean vibes. Sir Dolo—”on the water”—is her debut EP and an homage to the people, flora, and fauna along the estuaries of the Mississippi and Bulbancha (New Orleans)—”the place of many tongues”.
Dedicated to Ms. Sharon Lavigne the Founder of RISE St. James, Sir Dolo is the first release of Kat Fenm, a 4-part music and short story series about past and present Louisiana women activists from the semi-mythical land of Di Pa Ça—”Don't Say That!”. Inspired by Nina Simone's "Four Women", Kat Fenm draws on historical archives, family memory, sound collage techniques, and pop and folk media references to make “iconographic the real women we knew and would become.”
As a racial justice advocate and eco-feminist, her artistry constantly seeks to re-center African and Indigenous stories and worldview(s), a process which she views as essential to decolonial aesthetic production across the port cities and estuaries of this country and the Western Hemisphere more broadly. It was through water that the great contact was inaugurated and it is to water we must look to reframe our collective consciousness and retrace stories of origin.
Shèr splits her time between Louisiana and New York, where she teaches in the Black Studies and Women's Studies Departments at the City College of New York. She is currently a Monroe Fellow at Tulane University's New Orleans Center for the Gulf South.