“Estrella hails from Cincinnati but lives on Frenchmen Street in the very house where Jelly Roll Morton grew up. The band is just as at home with "Basin Street Blues" or "I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly Roll" as it is with "Besame Mucho." Estrella is also a dance instructor (and master of pantomime) which may help explain her remarkable stage presence.”

“Singer Emily Estrella has one helluva stage presence on her as she sang and swayed, made faces and gestures to go with the lyrics and just appeared to be having a great time. A group I hadn’t seen before, but one that I’m hoping to catch again soon.”

“The dry and wry female vocals, brushed percussion, horns and strings run the gamut of American music – New Orleans brass, porchfront sing-a-longs and smoky jazz bar piano jazz. Quite an intriguing regional band.”

“De opvallendste onder hen: Emily Estrella en haar Faux Barrio Billionaires”

“Something about the woozy horns, quirky vibraphone and sultry vocals makes it easy to imagine these guys blazing on a New Orleans street corner, livening up a Paris café, or on a smoky European stage circa WWII.”

““...she christened it the “Faux Barrio” (faubourg + barrio). The term found its way into the name of her band, the Faux Barrio Billionaires...””

“They make for quite and intriguing regional band, especially when they pull out all the stops with the shadows of ladies behind the screens and the dancers they sometimes have on stage. You never know what's going to happen and I've never seen the same show twice.”

“The N.C. quintet swings, does the samba, dabbles in tango and takes the listener back to a simpler era of Dixieland jazz and lounge music.”

“Charlotte Observer’s Girl about Town: - “Charlotte’s Big Band” (Aug/07) - “from the Charlotte scene that really caught my attention in 2007.”(Dec/07) ”