Bedroom Pop Star Griff Takes Fifth Place.
How does one write a song regarding sorrow once you have ne'er had your heart broken? For 19-year-old pop singer Griff, the solution is simple: simply shop around you.
"There are millions of situations wherever you'll expertise sorrow," she explains. "It ought not to be romantic. "Like if an exponent moves away, otherwise you lose a friend. once somebody leaves your life, you're feeling like there is a region there."
So, on the moving piano ballad good things, she sings regarding missing the foster youngster's UN agency skilled her family's target county. On did not Break It Enough, she's blindsided by the lingering heart for somebody UN agency betrayed her.
Her sparse, dramatic songs regarding being a "hormonal teenager" have already won her a legion of loyal fans - not least a hundred and sixty music critics, DJs, and musicians UN agency voted her into fifth place on the Music Sound of 2021 list.
Born married woman religion Griffiths, she was instructed in soul and gospel music by her Jamaican father and Chinese mother, before falling soft on with Taylor Swift's Fearless album once she was eight years previous.
"It was such a distinction to all or any the things I would be cited on," she recollects. "The pop sensibility, and therefore the truth she was singing regarding teen stuff: it absolutely was my initial memory of realizing I adored pop."
Griff had her initial recording session at the age of ten, "just doing embarrassing things during a band". By the time she left faculty, she'd signed a trot out Warner Music, emotional her initial single in July 2019.
Despite the restrictions of the pandemic, she's already enjoyed a meteoric rise by soundtracking Disney's Christmas advert, and receiving a private endorsement from Taylor Swift when recording a canopy of Exile, from the star's lore album.
"Honestly, this whole year feels super, super-surreal," laughs the singer, UN agency calls the from the sleeping room wherever she produces all of her own music (complete with an edition Taylor Swift "Baby Taylor" stringed instrument on the wall). "I still want I ought to be doing my schoolwork."