Tatiana DeMaria at the Bowery Electric

Born in London, England, Tatiana DeMaria spent much of her youth with her family in Paris, France, where some of the older youth on the school bus introduced her to punk rock. At age 13, she started playing guitar and writing songs. Upon returning to London as a teenager, she played in several bands while in high school before forming the Camden Whigs, later renamed TAT, at age 15. DeMaria was 17 when two of the songs she had written and performed with TAT charted in the United Kingdom. After writing music for commercials and film soundtracks, DeMaria began recording and performing as a solo artist in 2018. DeMaria has released four singles; she anticipates the release of an EP and/or an album in late 2019.

At the Bowery Electric tonight, bassist Nick Cantatore and drummer Joshua Keitt provided the rhythm backup for DeMaria's songs. Fronting a power trio meant that DeMaria was required to do a bulk of the heavy lifting with vocals and guitar. Her strong, yearning vocal treatments brought power and passion to her personal, cathartic lyrics, and her guitar-fed interludes packed a walloping punch. Her vocal wails now lead more towards rhythm and blues, however, and the spines of her songs built on party beats and climaxed in explosive choruses. In the years since TAT's tours of America, DeMaria's solo releases have grown increasingly laid back and leaned more into contemporary pop genres, yet DeMaria has remained a flaming fireball on stage. DeMaria demonstrated that she has the tools with which to bridge pop with radio-friendly rock.