User blog:Bzero/Who Is Starr?

LOS ANGELES – The Holograms have a top-ten hit for the first time in over twenty years, and this time it’s without their colorful lead singer Jem. The famously-reclusive Jem left the band in 1988 and completely disappeared until she returned for a special USO reunion concert in 2008. Unfortunately, she was kidnapped from that show by agents of the terrorist organization Cobra, and after her release vanished again from the public eye.

So who is the voice of the new single, listed only as “Starr”?

It’s not Kimber Benton, who’s fronted the group in their many incarnations as a touring band since the 1980s. The secretive Benton would only say that Starr was an ‘outrageous’ new talent, and that the world would get to meet her at her first live performance at the famous El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles tonight, Wednesday March 4th. There she’ll be performing her hit cover of "Music is Magic," originally performed by Jem and the Holograms, as well as a mix of original music and Holograms covers.

Will this ‘Starr’ shine, or burn out as quickly as she appeared? If this is the way the Holograms sound now, it could be the next phase in their career.