"A 25-year-old singer and songwriter from the humid sands of South Florida, Perez broke out last year when "Sailor Song," an eerie-sensual emo-folk ballad about longing for a woman who looks like Anne Hathaway, went viral on TikTok. The song, which Perez recorded in her childhood bedroom, topped the U.K. singles chart and inspired covers by Joe Jonas and Tate McRae; today it's been streamed more than 1.4 billion times on Spotify alone."
"Her impressive LP, "At the Beach, in Every Life," showcases the wild beauty of her singing - its crying highs and purring lows - in stark but sturdy songs about love and religion and the grief that descended on Perez when her older sister, Celene, died in 2020 in circumstances she declines to specify. "Gigi's voice can tear through the atmosphere like a knife," says Hozier, the Irish folk-rock star who recently took Perez on tour as his opening act. He adds that "something of her internal world seems to travel the air with it.""
Gigi Perez is a 25-year-old singer-songwriter from South Florida whose breakout single "Sailor Song" went viral on TikTok, topped the U.K. singles chart, and has over 1.4 billion Spotify streams. Her debut LP, At the Beach, in Every Life, was self-produced and features stark, sturdy songs that showcase a voice with crying highs and purring lows. Themes include love, religion, and the grief following the 2020 death of her older sister, Celene. Perez was briefly signed and dropped by Interscope before signing with Island, and established artists such as Hozier have praised her emotive vocal presence.
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