If we take a look at the WECB list we can see the presence of Kenya Gracean artist who has already managed to sneak into the top 10 with strangersBut do you know her? Surely you have heard her theme, but it is not so clear that you place this girl well. No problem, we can solve it.
We have done a little research to be able to compile 12 curiosities about this promise that we will surely continue to listen to throughout 2024.
#1. He was born in South Africa, but grew up in the UK. There she began writing and singing when she was given a Yamaha keyboard when she was only 10 years old.
#2. She graduated from the Academy of Contemporary Music in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in songwriting and creative arts after having left his studies in history and English literature.
#3. She had stage fright and her boyfriend, the MMA fighter, Joshua Lapin It helped him overcome it by transmitting that self-confidence that he had as an athlete. He assures that music is his therapy.
#4. After doing some musical theater, she decided to compose his first songs and the first ones he launched were Obsessedand Tell My Why, in 2019. He confessed that he composed the second of them while intoxicated. She got a video clip made for her in a contest.
#5. Her third song was talk what he wrote in his bedroom during confinement for covid after leaving a toxic relationship.
#6. Summer 2023 launched strangersa song he composed in his room when He was trying to make a euphoric song for his TikTok account where it quickly went viral.
#7. strangers reached No. 1 on the UK singles chart last October: “Strangers is number 1 in the UK! 😭😭😭😭😭 ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Guys, this is the most surreal moment of my entire life 😭😭 I am ETERNALLY grateful to every single one of you who streamed, shared and made videos for Strangers!!! UR THE BEST PEOPLE EVER AND I LOVE THEM SO MUCH – thank you for changing my life forever!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭💕💕💕💕💕💕 brb crying. 😭 😭 🤣 🤣 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭.”
#7. Critics credited the song’s success to the commercial revival of drum and bass and the dominance of female artists (in its first week on the charts, the top three were Doja Cat, Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo).
#8. In Wordplay he defined his music with several adjectives: Sensual, soft, delicate, dreamy, electronic, empowering.
#9. Although the first record he bought in his life was Two Sunsof Bat for Lashes and his favorite singer is Amy Winehousetheir music moves through other fields that are closer to pop and drum ‘n bass.
#10. In addition to being a composer and singer she is a producer, a facet of which she feels especially proud. “Production is a very male-dominated field, so I really want to show women that we can do anything,” she said in Mondonoroso.
#eleven. In 2023 he made his first tour which took him to several European and North American cities such as Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles and Toronto.
#12. Will perform at the next edition of Coachella Fest: “I’m playing at coachella ahhhhh 😭 how incredible 😭 I never thought I’d see my name on that poster aaaaaah – who’s coming? 🥹🐪🏝️😭”.
Better to have it on the radar.
