Alice Phoebe Lou

Alice Phoebe Lou
Alice Phoebe Lou at Funkhaus Berlin 2017
Background information
Birth name Alice Matthew[1]
Born (1993-07-19) 19 July 1993
Origin Kommetjie, South Africa
Genres
Years active 2013–present
Labels
  • independent / self-release
Website www.alicephoebelou.com

Alice Phoebe Lou (born 19 July 1993) is a South African singer-songwriter based in Berlin.[2] She has released two EPs and two albums. In December 2017 her song "She" from the film Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story was included on the Oscars shortlist for Best Original Song.[3]

Early life

Lou spent her childhood in Kommetjie on west coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa and attended Waldorf school.[4] Her parents are documentary filmmakers.[4] She took piano lessons as a child but learned to play guitar herself.[2][5] In 2010 she spent her summer holiday in Paris living first with her aunt but soon moved to live with a friend and started earning money by fire-dancing.[2]

Career

Having a gap year after graduating from high school in South Africa in 2012 she returned to Europe, first to Amsterdam and then to Berlin.[2] In Berlin she started to sing and play guitar as she found out that this was more lucrative than fire-dancing.[2] After her gap year she contemplated attending university in South Africa,[6] but eventually decided to purchase a battery powered amplifier and return to Berlin instead.[2] In Berlin she performed on S- and U-bahn stations and parks.[2][7] Already after one month in Berlin she played also on a television program.[8] In April 2014 she self-released "Momentum" EP.[9] The song "Fiery Heart, Fiery Mind" from the EP featured in the soundtrack of the 2015 released film "Ayanda".[10] She also started to play in venues.

After a performance at TEDx in Berlin on 6 September 2014[11][12] she started to get offers from record labels, but she wanted to stay independent.[2][5][13] In December 2014 she released a live album "Live at Grüner Salon" as means to fund the recording of her debut studio album.[14]

In 2015 she started to tour and played first time at SXSW festival in USA in 2015.[14] She has returned to SXSW every year after that.[15][16][17] She also performed in TEDGlobal London in 2015 and opened for Rodriguez on his 2016 South Africa tour.[18][19]

In April 2016 Alice Phoebe Lou released her album "Orbit", produced by Matteo Pavesi and Jian Kellett-Liew, through Motor Music indie label.[5][20][13] She was nominated for best female artist at the 2016 German critics choice awards in Germany[21] and was invited to several German TV programs for interviews and performances.[22][23]

She toured in Europe, South Africa and USA in 2016 and played three sold out shows at the Berlin Planetarium.[24][25] More concerts and tours followed in 2017 but Lou has also continued street performances.[26]

In December 2017 she self-released nine track "Sola" EP and a book titled "Songs, poems and memories".[27][28][29] The same month it was announced that her song "She" from the film Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story is on the shortlist for Academy Awards' Oscars in Best Original Song category.[3] "She" was released as a single on 23 February 2018 with a music video directed by Natalia Bazina.[30]

During 2018 Alice Phoebe Lou has toured Europe, USA, South Africa, Japan and Canada. Her next album, titled Paper Castles is expected to be released before the end of the year.[31][32][33]

Discography

Albums

EPs

  • Momentum (EP, 2014)
  • Sola (EP, 2017)

References

  1. ↑ "Alice Phoebe Lou unveils 'Fiery Heart, Fiery Mind' video". nbhap.com. 17 July 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Alice Phoebe Lou: Berlin's best-kept secret". cafebabel.com. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  3. 1 2 "70 original songs vie 2017 Oscar". oscars.org. 18 December 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Straßenmusikerin Alice Phoebe Lou - Freiheit, Wünsche, große Träume". taz.de. 12 May 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 "Porträt der Songwriterin Alice Phoebe Lou Freiheitsliebe und ein dickes Fell". tagesspiegel.de. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "With the Artist: Alice Phoebe Lou". stalker.smagazine.com. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "Alice Phoebe Lou sees street music as a gift". Mail & Guardian. 7 April 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  8. ↑ "Frühstücksfernsehen Casting: Alice Phoebe Lou". sat1.de. 21 June 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  9. ↑ ""Momentum"-EP-Release". last.fm. 10 April 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  10. ↑ "AYANDA - DIFF". mahala.co.za. 17 July 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  11. ↑ "Performance - Alice Phoebe Lou - TEDxBerlin". tedxberlin.de. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  12. ↑ "Alice Phoebe Lou: SA's viral star who's anything but a sell-out". channel24.co.za. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  13. 1 2 "Ground Level: An Interview with Alice Phoebe Lou". thefourohfive.com. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  14. 1 2 "SXSW 2015 Schedule - Alice Phoebe Lou". sxsw.com. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  15. ↑ "SXSW 2016 Schedule - Alice Phoebe Lou". sxsw.com. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  16. ↑ "SXSW 2017 Schedule - Alice Phoebe Lou". sxsw.com. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  17. ↑ "SXSW 2018 Schedule - Alice Phoebe Lou". sxsw.com. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  18. ↑ "Soaring imaginations, harsh realities: A recap of TEDGlobal>London". ted.com. 16 June 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  19. ↑ "Alice Phoebe Lou to open for Rodriguez during SA tour". channel24.co.za. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  20. ↑ "Alice Phoebe Lou: Orbit - A quietly cathartic artistic piece of soundscape". texxandthecity.com. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  21. ↑ "Das sind die Gewinner des „Preis für Popkultur" 2016". musikexpress.de. 10 September 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  22. ↑ "Alice Phoebe Lou - NDR Kultur Neo". NDR. 9 May 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  23. ↑ "Inas Nacht Folge 6". daserste.de. 27 August 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  24. ↑ "Alice Phoebe Lou reveals debut album 'Orbit' + Euro tour 2016". withguitars.com. 22 April 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  25. ↑ "From The Streets To The Stars: Alice Phoebe Lou, A Role Model for Modern Musicianship". nbhap.com. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  26. ↑ ""Ich will meine Unabhängigkeit bewahren"". morgenpost.de. 27 June 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  27. ↑ "EP Sola vinyl". alicephoebelou.com. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  28. ↑ "Song book from Alice". alicephoebelou.com. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  29. ↑ "Alice Phoebe Lou is not afraid to bare her soul". iol.co.za. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  30. ↑ "Alice Phoebe Lou unveils single on NPR, announces SXSW official showcase". ventsmagazine.com. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  31. ↑ "Interview with Alice Phoebe Lou about "Orbit"". neol.jp. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  32. ↑ "Young Independent Woman: Alice Phoebe Lou On Her Life As A Female Songwriter". nbhap.com. 8 August 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  33. ↑ "Alice Phoebe Lou Funkhaus Session". funkhaus.events. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.