Meresha is a creative, performer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and producer from the United States. She is known for her deep, wide-ranging, and soulful voice as well as her eccentric musical vision. https://soundcloud.com/meresha Her songs have reached the top of the Billboard charts on many occasions, and her music videos have been shown all over the world, including on MTV, where she was the winner of a...

Before listening to a single note of Suris’ new album, “Pertinax”, I spent a few minutes just looking at the word. Pertinax. It has the distinct ring of a Stoic philosopher’s last defiant utterance or maybe a type of beetle known for its unusually stubborn shell. What a curious flag to fly for a collection of songs in an age of fleeting distraction. But...