Madam Mayor Tickets

Glam punk nouveau, like Lou Reed’s wet dream, Madam Mayor is the first solo project by singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Erica Green (she/her/hers). Madam Mayor’s debut album, f, is a culmination of an 18-year musical journey, one that started in 2003 with the sudden death of her father when Erica was just 17. “I wrote my first song in response to my dad dying,” she recalls. “The chorus went ‘Well it seems like the sky is on fire. Come sit with me, we'll laugh at our past desires.’ Writing songs became my primary grieving process.” A born-and-bred New Yorker, self-taught musician and professional EMT, Erica’s songwriting takes inspiration from her experiences responding to 911 calls in Brooklyn, NY, blaring through the streets in her ambulance. Through all the chaos and heartbreak on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, music remained her best medicine. As she puts it, “In March of 2020 when the pandemic hit Brooklyn like a tidal wave, I told myself, ‘If I survive this thing, I am finally making my record!’” The resulting album reads like the bold woman who created it, unapologetic, vulnerable, and fiercely celebratory. “As a transgender woman, I feel like I’m in a constant fight with the world to be my authentic self,” she says. “Sometimes I have to flex my muscles, but winning this fight is all about softness, and being vulnerable.” Born out of her previous musical project (“Mister Mayor”), Madam Mayor’s music aims to amplify sex-positivity, queer liberation, and gender affirmation. The message: be yourself at all costs. “I think conformity is fucking disease,” she says. “I hope my music encourages people to feel a little less eager to conform, and feel a little more free to be their authentic unfiltered selves.” As she evolved into becoming fully “out and proud,” and as her confidence grew, many of her song lyrics grew too. A previously unrecorded song takingan anxious tone about donning a dress has changed into “Genderama,” a track in which she has tossed away fear of judgement for wearing the clothes she wants to wear. Similarly, “Polyamory” morphed from lyrics

tinged with hesitation and fear into a joyous celebration of a relationship style that Erica now proudly embraces.

Heavily influenced by classic British punk and 70’s New York LES rock n’ roll, the grunge-tinged f was recorded live at the legendary Sound on Sound Studios outside of NYC. With two-time Grammy winner Marc Swersky (Joe Cocker, Roger Daltrey) helming the producer’s seat, Erica worked with agroup of musical visionaries including cellist Dave Eggar (Coldplay,Evanescence), guitarist Vin Landolfi (Demi Lovato), multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Alan Markley (Maggie Rogers), drummer Avishai "ATELLER" Rozen (Emel), and engineer/mixer Seth Von Paulus (Smashing Pumpkins, Linda Perry). Her drive to share her music now and tell her story comes from the belief that like music, human stories heal. “My dream is to inspire other transgender and gender queer individuals and their allies to share their stories and their art with the world,” she says. Hers is a story to inspire more stories. This is Madam Mayor.