“A
Serious
Talent”
(Radio 3FM)
A heady, seductive mix of electro, hip-hop, soul and funk, Pink Oculus, the alter ego of Dutch-Surinamese singer and producer Esperanza Denswil, has you nodding along casually one minute, dancing exuberantly the next. With her music and her appearance, she radiates a powerful feminine energy that only few artists have. Her voice has an incredible range, effortlessly switching from furious flows to sweetly gentle vocals.
In 2016, Pink Oculus released several singles and her debut EP “Delicious”, performed at major European festivals such as Glastonbury, The Great Escape and North Sea Jazz, and opened for Anderson .Paak in 2017. There is something trend-setting about the way the musician from Rotterdam fuses experimental hip-hop, soul and jazz. The music press predicts that she is capable of “producing genre-defining music in the years to come”.
Her latest album, Before Wisdom, was released in 2022. Pink Oculus has supported D’Angelo and Stromae, worked with musicians such as George Clinton, Sabrina Starke and Berget Lewis and the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, one of the largest symphony orchestras in the Netherlands.
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A concert from the asphalt sur Lac series, funded by the Initiative Musik with grants from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.
Esperanza aka Pink Oculus: lead vocals
Jeremiah Owusu-Ansah: drums & sequencer
Robert Pronk: bass guitar
Yannick Hiwat: violin & synthesizer
