The husband and wife team of Roderick Wolgamott Romero and Anisa Romero sing dual lead vocals.Other principal band members include Michael Cozzi (formerly of Shriekback), who produces their albums and plays guitar, Ben Ireland on drums, Juano on bass, and William Bernhard on guitar and keyboards. Recently Kent Halvorsen joined the band on keyboards. Gordon Raphael (producer for The Strokes) played keyboards until 1997.
The first album, from 1989, featured Roderick Wolgamott Romero playing with Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow from The Posies. The second album, released in 1990, featured the same trio, joined by Scott Mercado, Alfred Butler, Stephen Brian-Salit, Mark Ultra, Kevin McCoy and Jeff Guess. The band, after that album, reinvented itself as a septet with the the following lineup: Roderick Wolgamott and Anisa Romero, DJ Fallout aka Todd Robbins, Joseph E. Howard (aka Joe Skyward), Bennett James, Marc Olsen and Gordon Raphael.It was during this time they recorded "A Return to the Inner Experience." Mike Cozzi replaced Marc Olsen on the fifth through seventh albums. In 1994 Juano replaced Joe Howard. William Bernhard, joined the band in 19988 after Michael Cozzi left to pursue other projects.
Sky Cries Mary had broken up in 1999, shortly after the release of Seeds because band members wanted to work on other projects. They regrouped in various configurations including Hana, which featured Anisa Romero, Jeff Greinke, and Ben Ireland, and No Futuro, an experimental musical project helmed by Roderick Romero, William Bernhard, and Jeremy Moss . In 2004, the band (composed of the Romeros, Ben Ireland, Juano, Michael Cozzi, and William Bernhard) regrouped after they won the rights to their music back from their old record company and subsequently released their first live album Here and Now. Two years later they followed it up with the critically acclaimed album, "Small Town."
Sky Cries Mary finished the recording for their newest album on February 1, 2007, and it will be released through Hoodooh Records.
Their song "The Elephant Song" was featured on the soundtrack for the movie The Harvest. Their song "Shipwrecked" was featured on the soundtrack for the movie Tank Girl. Their song "Cornerman" was featured in the movie Higher Learning playing from a jukebox. Sky Cries Mary were one of the first ever bands to have an 'internet only' concert. 1
