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As founder and frontwoman of The Ettes and Parting Gifts and a solo artist, Coco Hames has been celebrated as one of the last great purveyors of classic songcraft, with American Songwriter hailing her as an artist “reviving a time now lost in contemporary music,” while The Guardian swooned that she has “a voice like Ronnie Spector.”
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As founder and frontwoman of The Ettes and Parting Gifts and a solo artist, Coco Hames has been celebrated as one of the last great purveyors of classic songcraft, with American Songwriter hailing her as an artist “reviving a time now lost in contemporary music,” while The Guardian swooned that she has “a voice like Ronnie Spector.”
During its decade together, Hames’ LA/Nashville guitar-pop combo The Ettes released four critically acclaimed albums and two EPs, appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with David Letterman, and toured across the U.S. and Europe with Jack White and the Dead Weather, The Black Keys and Kings of Leon, among others.
Hames’ indelible songs have long made her material a go-to for music supervisors and advertising companies. Her work has soundtracked dozens of TV shows (Made For Love, Friday Night Lights, Shameless), films (Whip It, Greta Gerwig’s Lola Versus) and major campaigns (Motorola, Victoria’s Secret, Rimmel).
Signing as a solo artist to venerable indie label Merge Records, Hames released her self-titled solo debut in 2017. AllMusic praised the album as “burnished Americana that's equal parts classic country weepers, downhearted girl group melodrama, and sad rock & roll ballads.” While the U.K.’s Uncut magazine raved that the record was filled with “audacious moments that combine the stately emotionalism of '60s torch singers with the all-caps exuberance of a particularly sharp garage-rock band.”
As a composer Hames’ evocative songs continue to be used and valued by creatives. She’s written and performed original material for the award-winning Disney channel program Wander Over Yonder, ABC’s hit drama Nashville and CBS’ NCIS franchise.