Scissor Sisters Seek Slice Of U.S. Market

For the disco-influenced New York band the Scissor Sisters, who have enjoyed major success in the United Kingdom, the U.S. market remains a challenge. “American music fans are just as musically open-minded as their British counterparts,” frontman Jake Shears told trade publication Billboard. “But the powers that be in the U.S. may not be as open-minded. Which, to a degree, will hold us back in the U.S. … Tons of Americans would love our music, but they don’t know we exist.”