Group

The Roches

From: Park Ridge, United States
Since: 1973–present
Releases: 15

folk
rock
christmas music
contemporary folk
folk pop

About

The Roches were an American vocal trio of sisters Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche, from Park Ridge, New Jersey. Maggie and Terre first performed as a duo in the late 1960s, sang backup on Paul Simon's 1973 album There Goes Rhymin' Simon, and released one album as a duo, Seductive Reasoning (1975). Suzzy joined later in the 1970s to form the trio. The sisters worked as bartenders at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village, where they also began performing.

Their first album as a trio, The Roches (1979), was produced by Robert Fripp. Maggie's song "The Married Men" from the album was later recorded by Phoebe Snow. The group performed on Saturday Night Live in 1979 and released several more albums in the 1980s and 1990s, including the Christmas album We Three Kings (1990) and the children's album Will You Be My Friend? (1994). They also appeared on Rock Goes to College, Soundstage and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and provided songs for the films Crossing Delancey (1988) and The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure (1994).
In 1997, the sisters put the group on hold to work on solo projects. They reunited for a holiday tour in 2005 and released Moonswept in 2007, their first studio album in 12 years. Maggie Roche died in 2017. Suzzy's daughter, Lucy Wainwright Roche, is also a singer.

From The Roches on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.