Female Species was a band formed in Whittier, California, in 1966 by teenage sisters Vicki and Ronni Gossett. The sisters would go on to forge careers in the music business, working on their craft while bouncing around the country and eventually landing as staff songwriters for music publishing companies in Nashville in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Members came and went; their base of operations moved to Las Vegas, back to LA, and over to Nashville. Along the way their sound transformed from garage rock to lounge to countrypop, the only constant being an innate mastery of hooks and harmony. Along the way, they crossed paths with The Carpenters, Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Judds, and seemingly half of the industry’s power players, rebuffing all untoward advances, focused always on their craft.
In the 1980s they became staff songwriters for music publishing companies in the hit-making business. Relentless pushing landed them a once in a lifetime audition before the court of RCA’s top executives.
The band released a 10" in 1966 and then in 2021, the Chicago based record label Numero Group released the compilation Lp Tale Of My Lost Love.
