Biography

Mezzo-soprano Carolyn "Honeychild" Coleman has been described as :

"Fugazi meets Echobelly" (Wade Settle, Aerial Love Feed)

"Thrash diva Honeychild brings to mind Miriam Makeba meteing Bjork in the Sex Pistol's basement" (Greg Tate, VIBE)

..."A Lilith Farakhan" (Maya,Mother Goddess)

"..her voice evoking images of Kate Bush and Sarah Vaughn battling it out in a mosh pit" (Teresa Wiltz, Washington Post)

.."Honeychild combines soaring melodies and the haunting voice to an extraordinary effect".. (Michele Andrews)

Dubbing herself as "New York's Underground/Electronic Scene's Extra Special Guest" , Kentucky native Honeychild presents a sonic decoupage ,combining electric mountain dulcimer, guitar and live loops in accompaniment to her trademark ethereal vocals.

She is a founding member of the Sistagrrl Riott Collective, a group of African-American female musicians based in New York City, who front their own projects as well as organize shows. Sistagrrls Honeychild, Maya (Mother Goddess), Simi (Suffrajett) and Tamar-kali all appear in James Spooner's rockumentary "Afropunk:The Rock and Roll Nigger Experience". About the Sistagrrls, Teresa Wiltz (Washington Post) also wrote:

.."Pushing the boundaries of mainstream success is Macy Gray and pushing the limits of noise is Sista Grrrls, a New York collective of rockers....Sista Grrls don't just rock. they throw "riots."

As as solo artist, Honeychild has shared the bill with Cibo Matto and Rasputina (at the Vulvapalooza Festival, NYC), Mike Ladd, Sarah Dorgher, and Peelander-Z.

During a year-long collaboration with visual artist Jane D'Arensbourg, who projected her stop-start animations and hand-painted slides onto and during Honeychild's performance sets, she performed in New York at Cinema Classics Theatre, Koosil-ja's Elan (DUMBO), Phono_mena (Tonic), and the Outlaw Festival (also at Phono_mena).

in 2003, a self-organized tour of Spain and Germany took the duo to the female electronics-based Wooshi-Wooshi festival and Cable Records festival (Barcelona), The OskarvonMillerStrasse Gallery/Performance space (Frankfurt) and ultimately opening for Peaches at the CO-OP Club (Berlin).

Honeychild is also an honorary member of Table Manners, an all-female DJ Collective (based in NYC) whose roster includes DJ Steel (NYC/Berlin) and DJ Doomer (NYC), where she started out as a guest vocalist before learning to spin. As DJ Sugarfree, Honeychild has performed during the 2003 AIM 23 Opening at the Bronx Museum and the 2004 Jezebel electronic music series (Galapagos, Brooklyn). Alongside DJ partner SupaJen (Happy Goodtime DJ Show) she started the weekly party TVOD (Television Overdose), which ran for nearly 2 years, at Botanica Bar (NYC).

Other career highlights include a May 2004 performance on Unity Gain Television (see unitygaintv.org) and a brief cameo in the Wordsound hip-hop themed film, "Crooked".

Honeychild fronted New York's heavy rock outfit Audio Dyslexia, a group formed by ex-members of Cop Shoot Cop, The Spitters and Barkmarket until Spring 2005. During 2001 the group had the honor of opening for electronic noise godfathers Suicide at The Cooler Shutdown Weekend (NYC).