Mama Rose

Mama Rose is an artist, musician, mother of four, and author of Fearless: 27 Affirmations to Change Your Life. Her songwriting blends folk, jazz, and soul, as well as spoken word and rap to tell the stories that make ordinary life into poetry. To Mama Rose, songs are living, evolving art that takes place between her and her audience. With a dynamic, powerhouse voice that can fill a stadium and then come home and sing a baby to sleep, she designs moving, co-creative experiences that bend the lines between her and her listeners and make the stage feel like a shared space. 

You can find her book, music and more at www.mamarose.blog or @dearmamarose on social media.

photo credit Jose Carlos Photography 2026

About the albums

BETWEEN  is the second studio album by Minneapolis based Artist, Author and Mother of three, Mama Rose. Bridging genres including Dance, Folk, Meditation, Jazz and Spoken Word, this self-produced album is an invitation for deep healing. Through the exploration of the four core tenets of embodiment as identified in Mama Rose’s healing practice, the listener moves through a 12 track journey inward toward the self. Each song is an opportunity to re-write the inner-talk, to move the body, thoughts, emotions and spirit and to re-orient oneself to personal and collective center. Along with collaborators, Thomas C Gorton, Michaelton of Digital Nap and Jason Faye, Mama Rose layers complex vocal stacks over soft beds of ambient nature sounds and trance inducing drums. “Think angelic meets unapologetic honesty, sweetness meets unbridled wildness, this music explores the entire spectrum of what it means to be human and restores the inner-voice.”

Set the Clock Down is the first studio album by Minneapolis based Artist, Psychic and Mother of three, Mama Rose. Bridging genres including Soul, Folk and Jazz, Mama Rose shows up with her most vulnerable work of art to-date. She brings the listener through the process of grief and gratitude in the context of an inter-personal relationship that ultimately amounts to deep healing. The central question, “What if I could just set the clock down?” ties each song together with a request for presence amidst the human temptation to hold tightly to one’s past and to project it into one’s future. ‘Set the Clock Down’ is more than just a story, it’s an invitation to let go and truly live, now. Mama Rose delivers goose-bumps with lyrics that bring light by validating our darkness. The sweet Guitar, playful Jazz Keyboard and intensity of the Cello are just some of the vibes that set the stage for angelic vocals to make us all feel safe enough to feel. 

drink More water is the debut solo project by Minneapolis based Artist, Psychic and Mother of three, Mama Rose. From Neo-Jazz to Hip-Hop to Folk, drink More water explores the liminal spaces between genres and emotional states to capture and guide the attention of her listeners into deep, supported contemplation. The second track, flood, was a complete, in studio vocal freestyle that Mama Rose and producer Jason Faye built the instrumental around. Allowing the vocals to lead is common practice in drink More water. Whether calling the listener to inspired action or falling into the harsh realities of love, Mama Rose makes sound palpable with her ability to find the parts of her listeners that are begging for validation and dance with them.

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