Betty Who

Australian-born pop singer Betty Who makes vivacious however bittersweet music that calls to mind divas such as for example Whitney Houston, Robyn, and Katy Perry. Given birth to Jessica Anne Newham in Sydney, she started playing cello, piano, and acoustic guitar as a kid, and relocated to America with her parents when she was an adolescent to wait the Interlochen Middle for the Arts carrying out arts college. She then visited the Berklee University of Music to get more training like a cellist, but actually wanted to concentrate on being a vocalist/songwriter (she started performing her personal songs at age group 16).

While at Berklee, she fulfilled maker Peter Thomas, as well as the set began composing and recording materials together. Drawing motivation from your songwriting abilities of Joni Mitchell and Carole Ruler as well as the epic synth pop of M83 and MGMT, they developed a audio that was similarly nostalgic and modern on tunes like “Someone Loves You,” which Who published soon after Houston’s loss of life. The track became the 1st one from Who’s self-released debut EP, The Movement, which found its way to Apr 2013.

A season later, she came back with the Decrease Dance EP, a somewhat more polished work that discovered Who expanding on her behalf brassy design with R&B-inspired creation and even more introspective songwriting. In Oct 2014, Who released her initial full-length, Consider Me WHEN YOU ARE, which featured creation by Thomas aswell as Starsmith, Claude Kelly, and Martin Johnson. After spending a lot of 2015 on the highway, she came back in 2016 using a soulful cover of Donna Lewis’ 1996 one “I REALLY LIKE You Often Forever” that charted in Australia as well as the U.S., which November’s tropical-tinged “Individual Contact.” Who reunited with Thomas and in addition worked with manufacturers including Pop & Oak, Mstr Rogers, and Robopop on her behalf second record, The Valley, which shown her proceed to L.A. and present her tinkering with a number of styles.

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Some Kinda Wonderful (Radio Edit)

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Mama Say (Radio Edit)

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