When St. Petersburg-born artist Siobhan Monique Roland sings, injecting her classically trained voice into multiple genres including R&B, jazz, neo-soul, funk and gospel, people always ask her what type of artist she is.
So she came up with the term Ancestral Funk, which refers to the voices of her ancestors. It’s blossomed from a description to a record label and a movement. Under her stage name Siobhan Monique, Roland, 31, uses her performances to create change by bringing people together.
“(Ancestral Funk) is a representation of the sound, the community and the movement,” she said. “That change is love, unity and enlightenment.”
