Biography

Who, or what, is Her Majesty & The Wolves? The answer could be: the next great electronic dance outfit. Or, alternatively, an epic, immersive theatrical dance experience; or a nightmarish rave retelling of Little Red Riding Hood via Phillip Pullman. All of these answers would be true, but in more straightforward terms, Her Majesty & The Wolves is Kimberly Wyatt and Spencer Nezey.

Formerly of hip-pop dance floor duo Jupiter Rising, Spencer, an acolyte of the Black Eyes Peas, is a talented producer, songwriter, and MC. A saxophonist from the age of nine and a beatmaker since his teenage years, Spencer deferred from an International Business degree at university and has emerged as one of LA’s hottest-tipped producers.

You will remember Kimberly from the Pussycat Dolls, an experience she describes as “the best Boot Camp for the music industry I could ever have hoped for.” The Dolls made her a star, but as the biggest girl group of their generation (in number, as well as in scale) they were never going to stay together forever. Frustrated at her limited role within the band, Kimberly had long wanted to release her inner artist, so in February of 2010, she took a leap of faith and left the group. Most of the Dolls followed.

Since then, British audiences have seen Kimberly display a keen critical eye as a judge on the popular dance show ‘Got To Dance’, prove herself a remarkably good sport as a guest on Reeves and Mortimer’s ‘Shooting Stars’, and top the UK charts as a featured artist on Brazilian Rapper Aggros Santos’ dance anthem, ‘Candy’. But, behind the scenes Kimberly has been chipping away, plotting her musical comeback, though the process has not been without its obstacles. As a prominent member of a mainstream pop group, most producers that she met with underestimated her vision. “Every producer I wanted to work with was ‘Top 40, Top 40, we gotta make something that people will listen to now’.” When Spencer’s name was suggested during her search, their common ground was instant. On their first meeting at his LA studio, they discovered a multitude of friends and ideas in common. When they began to work on the track that would become ‘Stars In Your Eyes’ they found a strong musical connection as well. Kimberly remembers: “With Spencer it was different. He was like, ‘No, let’s make something that’s fresh now, something that people will be listening to in the future.’ We’re playing ahead; we’re not following a curve.”

The next step was obvious – the two forces would join together to form a new organism built from the ground up. One of the duo’s first hangouts included the Coachella Music Festival, where Spencer and Kimberly found the same inspiration in artists like in Deadmau5, Ladyhawke, Gorillaz, and Goldfrapp. Combining Spencer’s hip-hop background, they set about dreaming up a new kind of fantasy for the dance floor. They spent months writing and demoing in Spencer’s home studio and then decamped to the House Of Blues Studios in Los Angeles to lay down the masters. There they unleashed even more ideas and a grander vision. This band was to be more than Spencer and Kimberly. In fact, it was to be more than a band.

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