Hello and welcome back to Women in Music, the podcast sharing the tales and careers of modern singular voices in music, they all just happen to be female.
For this week’s episode Millie spoke to singer/songwriter and poet Arlo Parks.
Growing up in South West London, half Nigerian, a quarter Chadian and a quarter French, Arlo Parks learned to speak French before English.
She has always been introspective; as a child she’d write short stories and create fantasy worlds, later journaling and then obsessing over spoken word poetry, reading American poets such as Ginsberg and Jim Morrison and watching old Chet Baker performances on YouTube.
Fast forward to 2020 and Arlo Parks has announced the release of her debut album - Collapsed in Sunbeams, which is to be released on transgressive records on 29th jan 2021. She has graced the cover of Evening Standard Magazine, NME and Dork Magazine as well as being included on the 2020 Dazed 100 List.
Arlo Parks has performed stand-out shows for COLORS and NPR's Tiny Desk series and was one of only three artists to perform at Glastonbury this year. She was recently asked by Phoebe Bridgers to accompany her for a Radio 1 Piano Session, where the pair performed a cover of Radiohead's 'Fake Plastic Trees'
Arlo Parks is, without a doubt one, of the most exciting new artists at the moment and it is such a privilege to have her on the podcast.
I hope you enjoy the episode and thanks for listening!
Find Arlo Parks @arlo.parks, the podcast @womeninmusicpodcast and Millie Cotton @millie_cotton