Terre Roche is a singer, songwriter, guitar player, teacher, author, innkeeper and founding member of the legendary vocal trio, The Roches, and the band Afro-Jersey. Terre has performed in many clubs and concert halls throughout the United States and Europe and appeared on numerous TV shows over the course of her 50-plus year career. She is a co-creator with jazz pianist Garry Dial of "Us an' Them," a collection of national anthems from 16 nations. Her composition, "Star of Wonder," has become a favorite repertoire piece in choirs around the world and is now published by E.C. Schirmer.
At the other end of the spectrum, Terre shrieked her way to modest cult status as the voice on Robert Fripp's album Exposure. She sang the role of Squeaky Fromme in John Moran's avant-garde opera The Manson Family. Terre is the author of Blabbermouth, a memoir about her surprising journey coming-of-age as a female musician in the 1970's. She has worked with Paul Simon, Philip Glass, Linda Ronstadt, Meredith Monk, Don Was, The Muscle Shoals Swampers, Robert Fripp, Tracey Ullman, Kathy Mattea and Garry Dial among others. Terre’s first solo album The Sound of a Tree Falling was released in 1998. Imprint, a collection of original compositions performed with bassist Jay Anderson, was released in 2015.
In 2022, Terre released Kin Ya See That Sun an audio album of live recordings of Terre and her sister Maggie doing arrangements of songs they did when they were teenagers traveling around the country to play on the college coffee house circuit. The album contains many of the songs from Terre and Maggie’s debut duo album Seductive Reasoning as they were originally arranged, for just two voices and two guitars. The album was released digitally and is also presented in a very original and unique format - a hardcover book that includes lyrics, photographs, drawings, and recollections from various people who remember Terre and Maggie from way back when. The book contains QR codes to download the album and also stream individual songs.
In 2024, Terre released Inner Adult, a new album of thirteen original songs, her first since 2015.. The songs were recorded at Coral Star Studio on St. John all in one take. The album was released digitally and is also presented as a book like Kin Ya See That Sun. Inner Adult is currently up for consideration for the first round of 2025 GRAMMY® voting for Best Folk Album. The song “Fish Out of Water” is up for Best American Roots Performance and the song “Can We Keep ‘Em Dad” is up for Best American Roots Song.