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#Spotlight Tianna Esperanza brings in the royalty to reality with her latest

A lyrically honest and captivating single paired with a sleep Peter Collins Campbell- directed video, “Princess Slit and the Raincoat Prince” demonstrates Taianna’s shining vocal versatility. Tianna serves up an instant upbeat classic layered with an array of effective percussive elements and heavy guitar riffs.

Growing up as a queer woman of color in the affluent, white culture of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Tianna is the granddaughter of famed punk drummer, Palmolive - pioneering founder of legendary all-deme punk bank The Slits and The Raincoats. It’s immediately clear that Tianna’s own appetite for changing the narrative sits front and centre of her experience, a precociously intelligent and potent head on young shoulders.

With influences ranging from Nina Simone to Public Enemy to Gil Scott-Heron, Esperanza emerges as a high-caliber, uniquely talented artist and fashion muse in the making. It would be great to get your

Get to know more about her over on her Instagram Get the song here