RHONDA ROBICHAUX

About RHONDA ROBICHAUX

Rhonda Robichaux taps into her SwampySultrySpicy New Orleans roots with a mix of blues, swing, samba, jazz, funk, soul, and originals. Rhonda Robichaux Band won the 2012 Triangle Blues Challenge [representing Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill] and then went on to compete with over 200 performers in the 2013 International Blues Challenge in Memphis.
Robichaux's distinct vocals and innovative guitar, intriguing vamp on classics/standards, and soul-bearing originals conjure up an atmosphere of smoky cool.... funkified jazz/blues/rock stylings enhance and drive the music experience ~ from slow and gritty to uptempo dance grooves. Band includes various select musicians on keys, horns, saxophone, harmonica, bass, drums. As a soloist as well as with her band ~ her music captivates with haunting intimacy ~ commanding, engaging ~ unmistakable and undeniable rawness.

[Review from Raleigh Music Industry Association:
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"... Robichaux’s voice is in your face emotional and her range and control are certainly part of her major strengths, strengths which are numerous.
... an eerily mystical New Orleans-based blues sound and at times ... visions of Dr. John and Elvin Bishop sitting in with Etta James and Marie Knight.."

Rhonda Robichaux, New Orleans native, re-located to the Triangle area in 2000. She has been interviewed by local newspapers and radio shows, as well as network TV. She shared the stage in 2013 at the Bull Durham Blues Festival with Claudette King, (expired link) daughter. She has shared the stage with NOLA artists Charmaine Neville, George Porter Jr, and Papa Grows Funk. In the years she has been in North Carolina she has performed with Will McFarlane, Cool John Ferguson, Harvey Dalton Arnold, Shana Tucker, Brevan Hampden, and Al Strong.