Lou & Dee

LOU CASTRO is a bassist, singer, composer, producer who continues to push the envelope and expand the parameters of multiple music genres.

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Lou has played with Slash, Vivian Campbell, Arthur Adams, Albert Lee & Guitar Shorty as well as the pioneering New York band Mandrill.  Lou has also mentored Este Haim of the band HAIM and Justin Casey Smolian of Dirty Honey. 

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DEE ARCHER is a soulful singer-songwriter, producer & keyboardist best known for moving her audiences with passionate live performances. Her mother, Billie Rogers, was a renowned break-through jazz trumpet player who was the first woman to be hired into the horn section of a Big Name American Dance Band (Woody Herman Orchestra). Her father, Jack Archer was a top tier, pioneering music agent who represented and championed many of the most influential early American  rock 'n' roll and jazz artists (Fats Domino, Drifters, Platters, Dinah Washington, Moms Mabley, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Little Richard, many more).  

 

Dee has recorded and shared the stage with B.B. King, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker, Stephen Stills & more.  She has continued to write, perform, record and release music through many music and life eras, both solo and with her bands.  

 

Dee began writing and producing electronica in 2016 while nightly experiencing some of the top DJs in the world performing at Le Baron Shanghai - a world-famous China outpost of the legendary nightclub brand. Dee's son Cody Allen was Founder & CEO of Le Baron Shanghai in partnership with artist & entrepreneur Andre Saraiva for all 7 years of its globally heralded, award-winning existence. 

 

Lou & Dee have remained close friends, while also working together on various music projects through the years.  When they recently discovered their mutual love of ambient electronic, chillsoul and downtempo EDM, a new phase of writing and recording began and Uncertainly Principle was born.