You’ve heard her at the club, on the runway, and in moody TikToks everywhere. Eartheater, who defined a generation of New York alt-pop, may have traded the concrete jungle for motherhood and a Pennsylvania farm, but that’s not stopping her from hitting the road with FKA twigs on her 2026 U.S. tour or finalizing her much-anticipated sixth album.
What question do you ask yourself most often while you’re making work?
Will I be able to sing these lyrics for the rest of my life and still feel it in my heart?
Where do you feel most at home?
In front of a microphone, in a saddle, handling crises, kissing my man, being resourceful and problem solving, Delta 1 seat 1A, or sitting in the living room right where I was born watching a hot pink sunrise.
When’s the last time you laughed hysterically?
In tour rehearsal today when my key player updated the voice that gives cues in my ear monitors to sound like Lord Farquaad.
What are you looking forward to this year?
I’m looking forward to filming music videos and hiking the album campaign mountain and then hang gliding off of it the day it comes out. I can’t wait for that fleeting moment of stillness and peace I feel right after releasing an album. I’m looking forward to planting a willow tree by my pond and painting my house. I can’t wait to learn how to tour gracefully with a baby. Most of all, I’m excited to watch my daughter take her first steps and say her first words.
What’s one work of art that got you through an important moment in your life?
The one book that comes to mind in this moment is The Tao of Detox—a practical guide to preventing and treating the toxic assault on our bodies. For a good chunk of the last decade, I lived a pretty debaucherous life, so this book was very useful in helping me embrace fasting and healing in a balanced way.
What’s something people get wrong about you?
Lots of people think I’m trans and sometimes people have told me [this] to try to insult me, but I always take it as a compliment as trans women are the most beautiful.
What’s your biggest vice? Your greatest virtue?
Many a vice used to hate to see me coming, but as soon as I got pregnant, it’s like the fairy godmother in Cinderella tapped her wand on my head and that sparkly ring dropped down my body and left me light as a feather and every hankering lonely and forgotten.
What would you wear to meet your greatest enemy?
Alexander McQueen’s skeleton stole from his Autumn/Winter 2001 collection.
What would you be doing if you weren’t working in your field?
I’d be doing Chinese medicine, horse training, or be a Montessori teacher. I might still do these things later in life.
To read more from the 2026 CULT100 honorees, see the full list here.
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