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Persephone's Bees is an Oakland-based rock/pop music group. Growing up in Pyatigorsk, Russia, lead singer Angelina Moysov was musically inspired by her family: her mother played traditional folk/gypsy music while her brother played modern music.

After immigrating to America in 1993, she formed Persephone's Bees with Tom Ayres (who plays guitar), Paul Bertolino (drums), and Mike Farrell (bass). Their first LP, City of Love, was nominated for best debut album at the California Music Awards, along with being voted "Best Bay Area Pop Band" by SF Weekly. Afterwards, they signed to Columbia Records and released their major label debut, Notes from the Underworld. They toured with The New Cars as their opening act during their Winter Road Rage Tour '06.
Albums
* City of Love (2001)
* Notes from the Underworld (2006)
Live
In their live performances as the opening act for The New Cars, they play a 5-6 song set featuring "Way to Your Heart", "Nice Day", "Muzika Dlya Fil'ma", and "Paper Plane" among others. They normally end with "City of Love", which is much extended from the studio version, and features Moysov playing the guitar, without looking, behind Ayres' back. Shortly after this, Ayres and Farrell switch instruments, during which Farrell plays a guitar solo.
Media
The song "City Of Love" was used in a Cingular Razr phone commercial and in the film Bewitched.
"Nice Day" is used in the TV commercial for the Hilton Hotels. It is also featured on the Nancy Drew movie soundtrack.
"Way to your Heart" appeared in a J.C. Penney advertisement during February 2007.
"Queen’s Night Out" was used in a branding spot for Gucci.
The song "City of Love" was also used in Zac Posen's spring ready-to-wear runway collection in 2007.
"Muzika Dlya Fil'ma" is featured on the soundtrack of Fifa 07.
Angelina's vocal was used in the opening titles soundtrack of the Showtime show Weeds. In the episode 12/season 3 "The Dark Time" originally aired on October 29, 2007 Angelina performed her version of "Little Boxes". Angelina and her brother Oleg have adapted original lyrics into the mix of English and Russian for the said performance.
"Nice Day" is currently (Oct 2007- current as of October 2008) used on French TV in a commercial for "PagesJaunes", a telephone directory editor in France.
The song "Home" was on the end of episode 76 "Cold Stones" of the Sopranos.
"Nice Day" is being used for the fall 2008 virtual catalog of BCBG MaxAzria.