Roisin El Cherif

"Full of gripping lyrics and irresistible pop melodies. Underneath El Cherif's warm vocal, there's something much more tribal. There is an experimental, atmospheric quality ... El Cherif fuses everything brilliantly.""
- EARMILK
“‘Kerosene’, the debut single from singer/songwriter Roisin El Cherif, signalled the arrival of someone special. Rich in textures, melody and moods, the brooding effort earned her plenty of acclaim."
- Hot Press

Roisin El Cherif is an Irish Palestinian artist from Galway who came onto the Irish music scene as a  2016 with her first offering, “Kerosene” the video which she co-directed and produced.

Following this successful Roisin graced stages with notable performances at Body & Soul, Electric Picnic, was selected out of 400 submissions to play the Unsigned Act at Sea Sessions and other performances at The Ruby Sessions, Whelans, The Roisin Dubh and the Grand Social.
When personally selected by Ken Callait (Producer of Fleetwood Macs Rumours) to take part in ArtistMax, a songwriting workshop in LA, Roisin created material which contributed to her debut EP “Glass House” released in 2018. “Glass House”, a mixture of ambient pop and haunting vocals, was well received by EARMILK, Hotpress, GoldenPlec, TLMT and others.

Her single Cross Your Mind was well received in 2020 and was HotPress’s Track of the Day. She was named Hot for 2021 by HotPress and interviewed by PantiBliss on her show discussing Belonging. In 2022 Roisin took part in Rte players, ‘Our Land’ a docu-series exploring people of Irish and mixed backgrounds. She was also one of five directors selected to direct The Abbey’s Short “We met on a dance floor’. With a strong background in film production, Roisin has built a distinctive visual style to go with her ethereal sound, drawing on mythology and magic combining her love for music and film. Roisin's multilingual approach to vocals mixed with her incredible production creates beautiful and often haunting sounds. There are elements of overlapping genres in her music including folk, pop, R’n’B, and Neo soul, dance pop. Drawing on influences like Sevdaliza, Tracy Chapman, Aaliyah, and Arabic music Roisin is creating a new sound of Poignant lyrics to beats.

Roisin releases her first single of 2023 'Love Again on February 22nd, the first single from her debut album.