LION BABE IS A NEW YORK BRED FUNK AND SOUL DUO COMPRISED OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST JILLIAN HERVEY AND PRODUCER/DJ LUCAS GOODMAN, (ALSO KNOWN AS ASTRO RAW.) THE PAIR ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR UNIQUE SOUND AND LOOK AND ASSOCIATE THEMSELVES WITH THE TERM ‘FUTURISTIC NOSTALGIA’ TO DESCRIBE THEIR GENRE. LION BABE BLENDS VINTAGE COLORS WITH MODERN SONICS. THEY STARTED WITH THEIR BREAK OUT SINGLE “TREAT ME LIKE FIRE” IN 2012, WHICH QUICKLY GARNERED ATTENTION ACROSS THE GLOBE.

SINCE THEN, THE DUO HAS BEEN STEADILY RISING, AND HAVE RELEASED ONE LP TITLED “BEGIN” (2016 WITH UNIVERSAL) INCLUDING “WONDER WOMAN” PRODUCED BY PHARRELL WILLIAMS, ALONG WITH “JUMP HI” FEATURING CHILDISH GAMBINO. THEY FOLLOWED WITH THEIR MIX TAPE “SUN JOINT” FEATURING JUNGLEPUSSY, RAURY AND ANGEL HAZE. JILLIAN ALSO CO – WROTE AND SANG “HOURGLASS” ON THE GRAMMY NOMINATED DISCLOSURE ALBUM “CARACAL.” THEY ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PERFORMANCES, BOTH AT INTIMATE FASHION AND ART PARTIES AS WELL AS MAJOR FESTIVALS LIKE GLASTONBURY AND THE MAIN STAGE AT COACHELLA. THEY HAVE ALSO PERFORMED ON TV FOR THE THE SOUL TRAIN AWARDS AND THE TODAY SHOW, (WHERE THEY PERFORMED THEIR COVER OF TOM JONES‘ HIT “SHE’S A LADY,” WHICH WAS ALSO USED FOR H&M’S GLOBAL CAMPAIGN)

IN 2018, LION BABE RELEASED SINGLES “ROCKETS” FEATURING MOE MOKS, “HONEY DEW” AND “HIT THE CEILING” WHICH WAS FEATURED ON HBO’S HIT SHOW “INSECURE.” THE DUO ALSO WROTE AN ORIGINAL SONG “JUST ME” FOR SEASON 3 OF “INSECURE” WHICH IS FEATURED ON THE SHOW’S SOUNDTRACK (CURATED BY RAPHAEL SAADIQ.)

THIS YEAR THEY HAVE RELEASED COVERS OF CLASSICS “GET INTO THE PARTY LIFE” BY LITTLE BEAVER AND CARLY SIMON‘S “WHY.” THIS HAS ALL LED UP TO THEIR NEW ALBUM “COSMIC WIND” FEATURING PRE – RELEASED RECORDS “THE WAVE” FEATURING LEIKELI47 AND THEIR NEWEST SINGLE “WESTERN WORLD” FEATURING WU-TANG CLAN‘S OWN “RAEKWON.”

“COSMIC WIND” IS A RECORD THAT SHOWCASES THE BANDS GROWTH AS ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS, AND IS ROOTED IN THEMES OF TRANSFORMATION AND INEVITABLE CHANGE.

NIKKI LYNETTE is a suicide survivor and multi-hyphenate artist who fuses
mental health activism into her performance art, film projects and visual art,
creating a lane that is uniquely her own. Her journey with mental health
outreach began in 2016 when she returned to the public eye after a long
hiatus with a confession: she’d secretly been battling mental health issues. In
a time when being open about mental health struggles was taboo, Nikki
began writing articles about depression and suicide for prominent media like
Afropunk and AllHipHop. As the opening act for Pussy Riot’s first American
tour, Nikki workshopped the material that would soon become her musical
about depression, GET OUT ALIVE. In 2019, Nikki made history as the first
black female playwright to have a musical produced by American Music
Theatre Project, in 2022 she became the first Steppenwolf LookOut Series
work and first female AMTP alum to be featured at NAMT’s Festival of New
Musicals, and in 2024 Nikki Lynette became the first American Playwright to
be invited to Cove Park’s Musical Theatre Writing Residency in Scotland. GET
OUT ALIVE is currently in development under the guidance of Tony &
Grammy Award winning producers Octopus Theatricals. A proud ambassador
and board member for the Chicago chapter of the National Alliance on Mental
Illness (NAMI), seeing her music used to tell stories in tv shows led Nikki to an
interest in filmmaking. Since adapting her musical about depression to film
during the pandemic, GET OUT ALIVE has been invited into over a dozen film
festivals and won three awards. Her zeal for crafting edgy multimedia
theatrical experiences that center mental health is on full display in Nikki
Lynette’s second film, the new documusical entitled Happy Songs About
Unhappy Things.