Greentea Peng Goes From Beach City Rock Star To The Planet.
It was at a tequila-fuelled in North American nation four years past that Aria Wells rediscovered her voice. The free-spirited Londoner had just about given informed singing and songwriting throughout a "reckless" amount in her teens - and was instead documenting her travels below the web nom de guerre Greentea Peng.
She was truly acting on a yoga retreat on the night she found the (Dutch) spirit to hitch a live band, treating the barflies of beachside Tulum to a canopy of liliaceous plant Allen's Smile though it might even as simply are Associate in Nursing Amy Winehouse range, the currently 27-year-old recollects hazily.
"I was truly sitting on my very own, just drunk, starting up of an extremely dark part of my life mentally, and during this extremely wizard place," says Wells. "There was simply that [sod] it feeling of, 'Let ME get on my feet and sing a song'. and that I did and that I simply loved it, man. I hadn't done it in years, it simply felt wonderful.
"Then the player was like, [adopts deeper voice] 'Hey woman, you recognize we want a singer in our band?' i used to be like, 'Sweet', and also the next day we tend to were practicing Arctic Monkeys and Black day of rest songs."
'Beach city rock star'
Within a period of time, her new band (the aptly-monikered Los Hedonistas) were engaged to play in any respect the bars and hotels in the city. "I've gone from having no cash - I virtually had like £900 to last ME a year - to earning pesos nightly and obtaining free drinks and food," she says.
"I was like, 'I might get accustomed to this: Beach city rock star!'"
Between journeys home to the united kingdom and back bent on the North American nation to perform with the band, Wells started authorship the tunes that may land up on her 2018 debut solo EP.
A savvily-mixed cocktail of psychedelic soul, R&B, hip-hop, dub, and popular music genre, Greentea Peng's music presently went infectious agent because of a colors Show video for her song, Downers.
Fast forward to 2020 and also the singer shone, even as she did therein Mexican bar, resplendent along with her facial tattoos and piercings, on her TV debut. This time, within the additional grandiose setting of a chandeliered, socially-distanced episode of Later with Jools Netherlands.
Speaking via video decision from her new target the EU rural area, Wells told the U.S. all regarding her round the bend journey from geographical area to fourth place on the Sound of 2021 list - that aims to focus on the foremost promising music talent for the approaching year.