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Audra Kubat

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Detroit folk artist Audra Kubat is a Force. Not like a military force. More like a force of nature. A strong wind that blows past and transcends fads. A flower that’s blossomed from coffeehouse gigs into larger theater and festival performances.

Audra wears her influences—Joni, Miles, Billie, and Nick Drake like a coat of many colors rewoven into a “ruggedly pretty” and haunting style all her own. It’s a talent that’s earned her a loyal following, airtime, stellar reviews in local and national press and 10 Detroit Music Awards nominations including a win for Outstanding Folk Artist 2001.

Audra’s played Detroit’s best venues, as well as gigs in galleries and bars from Chicago to New York to Tennessee and back. Forces, by definition, move. From her post as front woman in the eclectic rock band Stunning Amazon, she moved on and released two solo albums with a bold and perhaps unexpected choice of production men. Her solo debut, 2000’s “Elixir” and 2002’s “Untitled for Now” were produced by Al Sutton (Detroit Cobras) and Mike E. Clark (seminal garage/punk—The Gories and Primal Scream) respectively. Both prove her to be an acoustic artist capable of cresting toward the harder edge of the shore.

Audra’s force is centrifugal, spinning out from its singer/songwriter center into a myriad of other talents. Whether she’s modeling for designers (Camillo Padro, Zaim), displaying art work at some of Detroit’s hippest art galleries, providing soundtrack work or opening for Sponge performing a burlesque number, she’s a well respected artist.