Casii Stephan is hard to pin down, at least when it comes to genre. For her, genre has always been a tool for telling a story or stirring an emotion, never a box to climb into. Whenever someone tells her they have found her niche, she notes, no two people ever say the same thing.
Born and raised in funky Minnesota and cultivated in rootsy Tulsa, Casii is carving out a space of her own in music, and she would rather you didn’t ask her to label it. Her sound sits somewhere between pop, soul and rock, though the folk community has also taken her to heart for her love of storytelling. She writes honestly and from the depths of her emotions, on life and death, love and loss, protest, and pushing back against the societal norms she finds so corrosive, from sexism and ageism to fascism.
In early 2027, Casii will release her debut album, Let Her Have Her Flowers, a project that weaves together hooks, powerful vocals, bass grooves, and real emotional depth as it explores loss and love. Working with Chad Copelin (Ben Rector, Colony House), she keeps embracing her full range without apology. “If this album doesn’t demonstrate my range as a songwriter and artist, I don’t know what will,” she says.
Her latest single, “Happy”, is a fine place to start. Its catchy hook asks what it actually means to be happy, and her warm, soulful voice carries the question through a retro, sunlit production by Chad Copelin (SPORTS, BRONCHO, Ben Rector).
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