Fifteen years after her career’s height with Five Star, Deniece Pearson is back with a bold new chapter, announcing the release of her self-written and produced 15-track album, Free-Queen-See. The album is a rich blend of pop, reggae, and R&B, infused with spiritual insight and soulful harmonies that leverage her “Five Star harmonies” branding, but this time, the whole project is coming from one powerful, singular source. Pearson revealed that the loss of close friends and family inspired a turning point, pushing her into eight months of solitude where she “connected with God, my angels, and my spiritual guides and all these songs came through.” The album title itself is a play on “frequency” and “free queen,” reflecting its dual mission to elevate and to empower, centered on a message of manifestation and staying “happy and pure and kind.”
The album covers an impressive sonic and emotional range, starting with the sun-drenched bounce of the opening track, “Berry,” which Pearson cites as a favourite for its “Jamaican energy, playful, emotional, and full of heart.” Other standouts include “Deliverance,” which she describes as a Bob Marley-inspired anthem of unity and a return to “Utopia Africa.” For the festive season, Pearson has included the catchy new single “I Didn’t Know,” sparked by a conversation about Jesus. Tracks like “When Jesus Spoke” and “Like A Child” (with nods to 90s R&B legends like TLC) draw directly from scripture, but Pearson ensures melodic accessibility, flipping the script on negative messaging to “create something uplifting and positive, that still gets stuck in the subconscious mind.”
This new solo venture is rooted in a 40-year legacy that saw Pearson and Five Star achieve unprecedented success, including over 20 top thirty UK singles, a BPI Award for Best Pop Group, and setting a record for achieving seven consecutive hit singles from a single album in the UK. Even after the group, Pearson has maintained a high-profile career, including co-writing with Ryan Tedder and touring with The Jacksons. To support the new album, Pearson is currently planning a New UK Tour for 2026, titled An Audience With…, with initial live dates scheduled from April through December.
‘FREE-QUEEN-SEE’ TRACK LISTING:
- Berry
- When Jesus Spoke
- Wash
- We Found Love
- Merriment
- I Didn’t Know
- Trumpets in the Air
- Deliverance
- Like A Child
- The Way The Truth The Life
- You Don’t Know What You Want
- SHOOGAH
- Tell Everybody
- 11 Stars
- Snakes Inna Di Grass
LIVE DATES:
- 24th April – Butlin’s Bognor Regis
- 2nd May – PizzaExpress Chelsea
- 6th May – Hale Barns
- 16th May – Northwich Arley Hall Cheshire
- 20th September – Skegness
- 1st November – Bognor Regis
- 5th December – PizzaExpress Chelsea