Sofi de la Torre

Self-made Canarian singer/songwriter Sofi de la Torre combines R&B and chillwave components with big, floor-filling pop hooks to make a design she somewhat immodestly dubs “pop completed right.” Created on March 16, 1991 and raised in Todas las Palmas in the Canary Islands — an autonomous community of Spain, but very much nearer geographically and culturally to Northwest Africa — she found out her skill at age group 14, when her college music instructor was impressed having a track she wrote like a research task and lent her a key pad to collect. She trained herself to try out and continued to create; when she remaining college at 18, she visited L.A. to have a music program, but made the decision she didn’t possess what it required like a performer and relocated to London to review media and marketing communications. While there, nevertheless, she experienced herself drawn back again to music and self-released two singles, “Heartbeat” and “Faster,” that have been in the folk-rock vein. She after that fulfilled German film movie director Felix Fuchssteiner, who was simply impressed plenty of by her music to feature four of her tunes in the soundtrack of his film Rubinrot (“Ruby Crimson”), an version of the favorite YA book by Kerstin Gier. She authorized to the German skill company Oh My Nice, which oversaw advertising for her 1st recording, Mine, released in 2013. Buoyed by her moderate success, she decided to change to pop for broader industrial charm, and in 2014 reinvented herself using the club-ready solitary “Vermillion.” Euphoric however melancholic, the monitor created an instantaneous, massive hype on music sites. The EPs QUIT at 2, Clutter, and THAT’S NOT You adopted as de la Torre steadily developed a narcotic, hyperreal design of pop which brought her a dedicated internet pursuing. In 2017 she teamed up with Finnish maker Jonas Karlsson for the well-received solitary “London x Paris.” He continued to create her second recording, Another? Not really Me, I’m Done.