REBIRTH, REINVENTION, AND REDEFINING ONE’S IDENTITY ARE THE CENTRAL THEMES THAT LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR LOS ANGELES-BASED ROCK BAND, DAME. WITH THEIR DYNAMIC, THEATRICAL LIVE SHOW, THEY CREATE A UNIVERSE THAT CELEBRATES THE GREAT WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY...WOMEN LIKE JOAN OF ARC, OLYMPE DE GOUGES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, AND JOSEPHINE BAKER (PRE-WWII CABARET DANCER TURNED ALLIED SPY).
WITH A DEEP-SEATED LOVE FOR BANDS LIKE QUEEN, LED ZEPPELIN, AND THE BEATLES, DAME REIGNITES THE RAW SPIRIT OF ROCK AND ROLL WITH THE HUMOR AND SPLENDOR OF MUSICAL THEATER, THE SOPHISTICATION OF CLASSICAL MUSIC, AND THE HUMANITY OF FOLK & BLUES.
DAME OFFICIALLY FORMED IN THE FALL OF 2024 THROUGH THE COLLABORATION OF SINGER-SONGWRITER VERONICA SWIFT AND DRUMMER/PRODUCER BRIAN VIGLIONE (THE DRESDEN DOLLS) WHO SWIFT CITES AS A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON HER SINCE AGE 13. VIGLIONE DISCOVERED VERONICA THROUGH HER COVER OF THE DRESDEN DOLLS’ “SING.” SOON AFTER, THEY MET IN SEPTEMBER OF 2021, BUT THEIR CONNECTION DEEPENED ONCE VIGLIONE RECOGNIZED HER TRUE TALENTS LIE WITH HER ORIGINAL CONCEPTUAL ROCK MUSIC WHICH REMAINED UNHEARD DUE TO HER ESTABLISHED JAZZ CAREER. AFTER JOINING HER SOLO BAND AND EMBARKING ON TWO SUCCESSFUL WORLD TOURS IN ’23 AND ’24 WHERE SWIFT RECEIVED THE HONOR OF CHEVALIER IN THE ORDER OF ARTS AND LETTERS FROM THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, THE DEMAND FOR SWIFT’S ORIGINAL REPERTOIRE GREW, AS DID SWIFT AND VIGLIONE’S RELATIONSHIP, AND SO BEGINS THIS NEW CHAPTER WITH DAME.