Rosie Frater-Taylor

  • Fast-emerging British singer-songwriter and guitarist Rosie Frater-Taylor is widely regarded as a virtuoso guitarist and a vocalist with a powerful emotional range and depth. Out now on Cooking Vinyl, Frater-Taylor’s new album ‘Featherweight’ (LISTEN HERE) deftly blurs the boundaries between rock, alt pop, neo soul, new-school jazz and folk. Drawing influence from the likes of Joni Mitchell, through PJ Harvey and Kate Bush, to the rockier roster - where John Mayer, Meshell Ndegeocello, St Vincent and Madison Cunningham hold court, ’Featherweight’ has garnered praise from an equally eclectic mix of supporters including : KCRW, BBC Radio 1, Radio 4 and Jazz FM through to MOJO, Hi-Fi, Total Guitar, Guitar.com and Jazzwise coining her “fiercely feminine”.

    In 2021, Rosie independently released and produced her sophomore album ‘Bloom’, which garnered in excess of 3 million streams, was nominated at Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Awards and took Rosie and her trio across the UK and Europe for over 60 shows in 2022. This included performances at We Out Here Festival on the main stage, the Barbican for International Women’s Day and several shows supporting Madison Cunningham. Shortly after, Rosie and her band headed into the studio to record ‘Featherweight’, capturing the band’s newly found boisterous energy and chemistry. ‘Featherweight’ asserts an emotional and musical maturity through the exploration of deep emotional themes such as duality and gender and a vast selection of sound-worlds all tied together by Rosie’s trademark songwriting, guitar and vocal style.

    Descended from a long line of musicians, songwriters & performers, Rosie has been turning heads for her playing since a young age. Initially given drum lessons by her father at the age of 8, she wrote her first song by the age of 10 and started gigging her own original music in and around London at the age of 14. It was at one of these performances that Rosie first caught the attention of Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, commenting that Rosie had “such a connection with the guitar”. A decade later, in February 2024, Frater-Taylor represented the iconic guitar brand Gibson alongside Jimmy Page, Brian May, Tony Iommi and James Bay at their flagship store launch on ITV News at Ten.

    In her teens, Rosie relished the vast and varied record collection of her musician parents, an eclectic mix of artists that would come to influence her own writing : Zero 7, Tania Maria, Seal, Sting, Pat Metheny and more. She began exploring her own love of songwriting, jazz and alternative harmony studying in her teens at the Roundhouse, then completing a jazz guitar degree at the Royal Academy Of Music. Rosie set off laying out multi-layered guitar-based demos on Cubase at the age of 16. These would eventually become her self-produced debut album 'On My Mind' (2018), a unique collection of songs which garnered praise from BBC Radio 1’s Abbie McCarthy, Becca Stevens “badass”, with Jazzwise Magazine hailing her “one to watch”.

  • "Such a connection with the guitar" - Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin

    “I love Gibson – I always have. Even though people like Slash play Les Pauls, for me they work better in a jazzier sound-world”: Jimmy Page was bowled over by her playing. Now Rosie Frater-Taylor is injecting jazz solos into pop for an all-new sound - Guitar World

    “I don’t like genres… they don’t serve artists in any way”: why Rosie Frater-Taylor is on a mission to challenge the guitar music norms - Guitar.com

    “A gnarly rock foundation heightened by nuanced jazz chords and folk-style finger-picking. Astonishingly mature album for one so young” - MOJO Magazine

    Rosie Frater-Taylor shares new single ”Twenties” - The Line of Best Fit

    The Best Albums of 2021 (So Far) - KCRW

    “Fall in love with these five tracks (and impress your Valentine’s date with your great music taste” -KCRW

    “the character from Rosie in this, the guitars and how charming they are... wonderful blend of singer songwriter music right here” - Jack Saunders, BBC Radio 1

    "An artist I've fallen in love with, musically" - Gilles Peterson, BBC 6 Music

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