At just 20 years of age, acclaimed singer, songwriter and producer King Princess (born Mikaela Straus) is fast emerging as a modern pop icon. Straus was exposed to music from a very early age, watching and learning from her recording engineer father Oliver Straus in his recording studio Mission Sound in their home city of Brooklyn. Inspired by classic rock acts like Led Zeppelin and more contemporary artists such as Jack White, she mastered several musical instruments, learnt music production and even gained insights into the industry by attending label meetings with her father.

She relocated to Los Angeles to focus on her music and after catching the attention of Mark Ronson, she signed to his new Columbia Records-affiliated label Zelig Records, which in February 2018 issued her first single "1950." The song has to date been streamed more than 200 million times and reached the Top 20 of Billboard's Alternative Songs chart in the U.S. where it was certified gold by the RIAA. "1950" featured alongside her second single "Talia" on debut EP, Make My Bed, while the release of "Pussy Is God" further added to the excitement around this major new talent who finished second in the annual BBC Sound of... poll ranking the top new artists for the coming year. According to Billboard, she is "ready to take over the pop music industry," while Rolling Stone calls her the "gay icon-in-waiting who's come to wreak glorious havoc on pop" and NME says she is "bringing a young queer perspective to pop."

The successful singles "Cheap Queen," "Prophet" and "Ain't Together" followed in 2019, while she co-wrote and performed on the song "Pieces Of Us," which featured on Mark Ronson's recent hit album Late Night Feelings. Her own highly anticipated full-length debut album Cheap Queen includes the three aforementioned singles plus contributions from Tobias Jesso Jr., Father John Misty and The Dap-Kings.