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Arlo Parks
Parks performing in November 2019
Parks performing in November 2019
Background information
Birth nameAnaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho
Born (2000-08-09) 9 August 2000 (age 24)
OriginHammersmith, London, England
Genres
OccupationSinger-songwriter
Years active2018–present
Labels
Websitearloparksofficial.com

Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho[1] (born 9 August 2000),[2][3] known professionally as Arlo Parks, is a British singer-songwriter and poet. After signing to Beatnik Creative in 2018, she released her debut single "Cola", which preceded the EPs Super Sad Generation (2019) and Sophie (2019). Parks released her debut studio album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, through Transgressive Records in January 2021.

Early life

Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho[4] was born on 9 August 2000 and raised in Hammersmith, West London.[5][6] She is half Nigerian, quarter Chadian and quarter French.[7] Her mother was born in Paris.[8][9] Marinho learnt to speak French before she did English.[10]

Career

2018–2019: Super Sad Generation and Sophie

Parks chose her stage name in the manner of King Krule and Frank Ocean.[11][4] In 2018, she began uploading demos to BBC Music Introducing which caught the attention of BBC Radio 1 DJ Jess Iszatt who distributed these demos to Ali Raymond of Beatnik Creative, who soon began managing Parks.[12] She made her solo debut when she released the song "Cola" through Beatnik Records in November 2018,[13] and announced the release of her debut EP, Super Sad Generation.[14] She told Line of Best Fit that the song is "a reminder that betrayal is inevitable when it comes to pretty people that think flowers fix everything." Olivia Swash wrote that the vocals on the song "flourish thanks to [Parks'] creative writing background, with her delicate tone taking centre stage against the gently plodding guitars and soft crackle of vinyl."[13] By November 2019, the song had amassed over three million streams on Spotify.[9]

Following the release of "Cola", Parks signed to Transgressive Records.[15] She released the title track of her upcoming EP, Super Sad Generation, in January 2019.[16][17] Robin Murray told Clash that the song portrays an "astute, nuanced creative control that also utilises word-play that speaks of youthful emotions spinning out of control."[18] Her third single, "Romantic Garbage", was released in March 2019,[14] before the release of the full four-track EP, Super Sad Generation in early April 2019.[19] The EP was recorded in her home in South West London and an Airbnb in the Angel district of London.[20]

Parks performed her first-ever gig at The Great Escape in Brighton in May 2019,[5] and has gone on to perform on the BBC Music Introducing stage at Glastonbury Festival in late June 2019,[21] as well as at Latitude Festival in July 2019.[22] She embarked on her first tour supporting Jordan Rakei on the UK leg of his tour in September 2019.[23] Throughout the last half of 2019 Parks released the songs "George",[24] "Second Guessing",[25] "Sophie",[26] and "Angel's Song"[27][28] ahead of her second EP, Sophie.[29] Sean Kerwick told DIY that the five-track EP "oozes with the hang-ups of heartbreak and mortality; a topic that seems to overshadow many gen-Z musicians."[30]

2020–present: Collapsed in Sunbeams

Parks embarked on her first headlining tour of Europe in February/March 2020,[31] but could not complete it due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2020, Parks released the singles "Eugene" and "Black Dog", which were well received during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns,[32] the latter of which became BBC Radio 1's Tune of the Week.[33] Parks made the front cover of NME in late July 2020.[4] She won the AIM Independent Music Award for One to Watch in 2020 in August 2020, after losing the same award to Georgia a year before.[34] Parks and Moses Boyd made the front cover of Music Week for the publication's indie takeover special following the AIM Awards ceremony.[35] Parks released her debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, on 29 January 2021.[11]

Personal life

Parks is openly bisexual and is based in London.[36][5] She was educated at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith and completed her A Levels in early 2019.[37] In her auto-biographical blurb on her Spotify profile, Parks claimed that she spent most of secondary school "feeling like that black kid who couldn't dance for shit, listening to too much emo music and crushing on some girl in her Spanish class."[38]

Parks has named Sylvia Plath and Joni Mitchell as among her influences. [39][40]

Discography

Studio albums

Title Album details
Collapsed in Sunbeams

Extended plays

Title EP details
Super Sad Generation[19]
Sophie[30]
  • Released: 6 December 2019
  • Label: Beatnik, Transgressive
  • Formats: Digital download, streaming, vinyl

Singles

As lead artist

Title Year Peak chart positions Album/EP
UK
Down.
[41] 		BEL
(FL)
Tip
[42] 		BEL
(WA)
Tip
[43] 		SCO
[44] 		US
AAA
[45]
"Cola"[46] 2018 — —[A] — — — Super Sad Generation EP
"Romantic Garbage"[47] 2019 — — — — —
"George"[48] — — — — — Sophie EP
"Second Guessing"[49] — — — — —
"Sophie"[50] — — — — —
"Angel's Song"[51] — — — — —
"Eugene"[52] 2020 — —[B] — — — Collapsed in Sunbeams
"Black Dog" 61 44 — 92 —
"Hurt"[53] — 44 — — 34
"Green Eyes"
(featuring Clairo)[54] 		— 45 — — —
"Caroline"[55] — 46 —[C] — —
"Hope"[56] 2021 — — — — —
"—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released.
Title Year Peak chart positions Album/EP
BEL
(WA)
[43]
"Sangria"
(Easy Life featuring Arlo Parks)[57] 		2020 — Junk Food
"Sunrise"
(MICHELLE featuring Arlo Parks)[58] 		— Non-album singles
"Tangerine"
(Glass Animals featuring Arlo Parks)[59] 		—[D]
"—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released.

Promotional singles

Title Year Album/EP
"Creep"[60] 2020 Non-album single

Guest appearances

Title Year Other artist(s) Album
"What Matters Most?"[61] 2020 Future Utopia 12 Questions
"Stranger in the Night"[61]

Music videos

Title Year Director(s) Ref.
"Cola" 2018 Ruby Brown and Leo Taylor [62]
"Super Sad Generation" 2019 Molly Burdett [63]
"George" [64]
"Second Guessing" 33bound [65]
"Sophie" Molly Burdett [66]
"Sangria"
(with Easy Life) 		Greg Barth [67]
"Angel's Song" Ruby Brown [68]
"Eugene" 2020 The Coyle-Larner Brothers [69]
"Black Dog" Molly Burdett [70]
"Hurt" [71]
"Green Eyes" Louis Bhose [72]
"Hope" 2021 Molly Burdett [56]

Awards and nominations

Organization Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
AIM Independent Music Awards 2019 One to Watch Herself Nominated [73]
2020 Won [34]
BBC 2020 Sound of 2020 Herself Longlisted [74]
Introducing Artist of the Year Won [75]
Hottest Record of the Year "Black Dog" Shortlisted [76]
UK Music Video Awards 2020 Best R&B/Soul Video – Newcomer Nominated [77]

Notes

  1. ^ "Cola" did not enter the Ultratop Top 50, but spent 4 weeks as an extra tip on the Ultratop Bubbling Under chart.
  2. ^ "Eugene" did not enter the Flemish Ultratop Top 50, but spent 4 weeks as an extra tip on the Flemish Ultratop Bubbling Under chart.
  3. ^ "Caroline" did not enter the Walloon Ultratop Top 50, but spent 3 weeks as an extra tip on the Walloon Ultratop Bubbling Under chart.
  4. ^ "Tangerine" did not enter the Wallonia Ultratop Top 50, but spent 4 weeks as an extra tip on the Wallonia Ultratop Bubbling Under chart.

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