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Honeychild Coleman
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Louisville, Kentucky native Carolyn "Honeychild" Coleman is an American vocalist and guitarist based in New York City since 1993. She composes and performs indie rock, electronic and dub reggae music. Her debut album Halo Inside (Come la Luna) was produced between her apartment in Brooklyn, NY and Ferrara Italy by Italian producer Max Stirner. This album also features guest appearances and collaborations by The Mad Professor, Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins, Gregor Asche AKA DJ Olive of we™ and Liminal, MC Natureboy Jim Kelly™  (AKA Nosaj of New Kingdom), French dub artist and producer Molecule, and I DUB NY featuring legendary reggae producer Lloyd Bullwackie Barnes.

Subway busking, and weekly sets with DJs Olive (we™ /Liminal), Sasha Crnobrnja AKA Inflagranti, Lloop(we™), Delmar (Liquid Sky), Fred Ones (Mike Ladd/Sonic Sum) and Badawi (Raz Mesinai) and  contributed to the unique niche that Coleman created within the underground electronic scene of the mid-90's. Her club-to-studio path led to recording with we™ (whose set she gate-crashed at Le Fin de Siecle Festival in Nantes, France), Badawi, Sasha Crnobrnja (Codek), Spectre (whose film "Crooked" she appears in), Greg Tate's Burnt Sugar Arkestra (electric dulcimer), Shiner Massive Soundsystem, Death Comet Crew(feat. Rammellzee), Apollo Heights (vocals on TV on The Radio's Dave Sitek's remix of "Disco Lights" and their cover of House of Love's "Christine"), and Italian electronic group HERE: Jim "Phylr" Coleman(Cop Shot Cop), M.Teho Teardo (Matera / Meathead) and Matteo Dainese (DEJLIGT/ Jitterbugs /Meathead / Ulan Bator), with whom she toured Italy three times.

From 1998 onward Honeychild has also balanced fronting her own alt-rock band (singing/writing/playing guitar), organizing "riott" shows with fellow Sistagrrls & "Afropunk" documentary artists (Simi / Suffrajett, Maya Goddess,Tamar-kali) all over NYC's East Village (3 Riotts at CBGB's, R.I.P.), opening for Cibo Matto, Rasputina, Radio 4, Mike Ladd, Sarah Dougher, Beans, Imani Coppola and TV on The Radio, releasing CDs on her bedroom label 8RM Records Brooklyn (USA), playing and touring (2nd guitar) with Apollo Heights (US / UK / Europe) and spinning records as DJ Sugarfree BK. Solo experimental sets at DJ Olive and Toshio K's Pheno_mena(Tonic) led to  shows at Sin-e, Rooftop Films, and SHARE,   a  D.I.Y. tour of Europe at the Wooshi-Wooshi and Cable Records festivals (Barcelona), The OskarvonMillerStrasse Gallery/Performance space (Frankfurt) and ultimately opening for Peaches at the CO-OP Club (Berlin) before returning home to perform during the 2003 AIM 23 Opening at the Bronx Museum. Subject of music documentaries "Fireflies" (Austria) and "Afropunk" (USA), Coleman's compositions also appear in Robin Wright Penn's "Sorry Haters " (IFC), award-winning "P.R" (Greece/UK), and in art quarterly ESOPUS 7 (USA).

In Spring of 201 Honeychild Coleman toured with legendary all female punky reggae UK group The Slits as the sole guitarist.

She is currently the bass player of Brooklyn post punk outfit Pollen (NYC) and a member of avant noise group UFO Confidential alongside Apollo Heights front man Daniel Chavis and Kelsey Warren of Pillow Theory.