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In the June pride issue of The Advocate, one of the top indie artists in the U.S By Mark Davis (06/1/05)
On the Cover of the
Jam Rag by Karen Mouradjian (11/1/03)
Mentioned in Rolling Stone (4/14/03)
On the Cover of the
Metro Times by Karen Fisher (3/6/02)
"She has enough girl power to fuel a fire and enough soul to make James Brown proud."
"The band's name and its Detroit Pedigree set some big expectations. Happily, Sista Otis and her Wholly Rollers manage to over deliver. Sista serves up Janis Joplin-inspired 1960s Rock mingled with flavors of funk, hip-hop, soul, and urban folk in socially conscious songs"
"Worldwide Release holds the potential as the record that can break open the national scene for Sista Otis and the Wholly Rollers. And it's a great album, full of the variety and depth that Otis is known for.Each song sounds fresh and different from each other, a feat not often accomplished by music groups either through fear or inexperience."
"Her spunky -- sometimes spittingly so -- new disc is the kind of blast of self-confidence that says an artist has really arrived. Sista Otis is emerging as one of Detroit's most distinctive voices."
"Sista Otis is one-of-kind figure in the Detroit music scene."
"With her smoky voice and love of the stage, there was little doubt to Sista Otis that her one true calling was always music."
"One listen leaves little doubt that Otis is on her way out of the shadows of the gritty, "urban folk" genre she helped create and on her way into the mainstream. But that's OK. Perhaps it's the mainstream that needs this prophetess most of all."
"Sista Otis has got to be one of the best songwriters to hit Detroit in a very long time."
"Motown's hippest folk sensation."
"(Sista Otis) is the hardest working women in Detroit Show Business."
"Legendary Country crooner Johnny Cash once wrote a song about a boy named Sue. But around these parts, it's a girl named Otis that's getting all the attention. Sista Otis to be exact."
"Sista Otis and the Wholly Rollers stood up as one of the nights top performances."
"Sista Otis has her own funk-stewed, potatoes and soul brand folk.
Urban folk with such a depth, maturity and atmosphere, you know it could only come out of Detroit."
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