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Softly (Arlo Parks Song)
"Softly" is a song by Arlo Parks. It is her first single of 2022 and the first new music from Parks since the release of ''Collapsed in Sunbeams'' in January 2021. Parks announced the single on social media on 28 January 2022, and it was released on 1 February. The music video for the song was directed by Zhang and Knight Zhang may refer to: Chinese culture, etc. * Zhang (surname) (張/张), common Chinese surname ** Zhang (surname 章), a rarer Chinese surname * Zhang County (漳县), of Dingxi, Gansu * Zhang River (漳河), a river flowing mainly in Henan * ''Z .... Describing the song, Parks stated "'Softly' is a song about yearning, about how fragile you feel in the dying days of a relationship when you’re still desperately in love".{{Cite web , last=Darville , first=Jordan , date=2022-02-01 , title=Omar Apollo joins up with The Neptunes for "Tamagotchi" , url=https://www.thefader.com/2022/03/23/omar-apollo-joins-up-with-the-neptunes-for-tamagotchi-listen , access-dat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlo Parks
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho (born 9 August 2000), known professionally as Arlo Parks, is a British singer and songwriter. Her debut studio album, ''Collapsed in Sunbeams'', was released in 2021 to critical acclaim and peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart. It earned her nominations for Album of the Year, Best New Artist and Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2021 Brit Awards. It won the 2021 Hyundai Mercury Prize for Best Album. Early life Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho was born on 9 August 2000, and raised in Hammersmith, West London. She is of half Nigerian, quarter Chadian and quarter French ancestry. Her mother was born in Paris. Marinho learned to speak French before she learned English. Career 2018–2019: ''Super Sad Generation'' and ''Sophie'' Parks chose her stage name as a distinctive personal pseudonym, inspired by King Krule and Frank Ocean. In 2018, she began uploading demos to BBC Music Introducing. This caught the attention of radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music genre that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music. The genre features a distinctive record production style, drum machine-backed rhythms, pitch corrected vocals, and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement. Electronic influences are becoming an increasing trend and the use of hip hop or dance-inspired beats are typical, although the roughness and grit inherent in hip hop may be reduced and smoothed out. Contemporary R&B vocalists often use melisma, and since the mid-1980s, R&B rhythms have been combined with elements of hip hop culture and music and pop culture and pop music. Pre-history According to Geoffrey Himes speaking in 1989, the progressive soul movement of the early 1970s "expanded the musical and lyrical boundaries of &Bin ways that haven't been equaled since". This movement was led by soul singer-songwriter/producers such as Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collapsed In Sunbeams
''Collapsed in Sunbeams'' is the debut studio album by British singer-songwriter Arlo Parks, released via Transgressive Records on 29 January 2021. The album received widespread acclaim, with many music critics praising Parks' versatility and vulnerability. The record was supported by seven singles including "Black Dog" and "Hurt". The album won the 2021 Mercury Prize. The album was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. Background and recording Prior to the release of ''Collapsed in Sunbeams'', Parks had recorded and independently released two extended plays, namely ''Super Sad Generation'' (2019) and ''Sophie'' (2019), since her solo debut in 2018 with the song "Cola". In early October 2020, Parks revealed via social media that she had finished recording "the album". She had prior told '' NME'' in July 2020 that she had been "doing a lot of writing" and thinking about exactly what she wanted to express in her "first big cohesive st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang And Knight
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Zhang may refer to: Chinese culture, etc. * Zhang (surname) (張/张), common Chinese surname ** Zhang (surname 章), a rarer Chinese surname * Zhang County (漳县), of Dingxi, Gansu * Zhang River (漳河), a river flowing mainly in Henan * ''Zhang'' (unit) (丈), a traditional Chinese unit of length equal to 10 ''chi'' (3–3.7 m) * Zhang Zetian, Chinese billionaire * 璋, a type of shaped stone or jade object in ancient Chinese culture thought to hold great value and protective properties; see also Bi (jade) and Cong (jade) Other * Zhang, the proper name of the star Upsilon¹ Hydrae See also * Zang (other) Zang may refer to: * Official abbreviation for Tibet Autonomous Region (藏) * Tibetan people * Zang (bell) Perisan musical instrument * Zang (surname) (臧), a Chinese surname * Zang, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran * Persian form of Zanj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlo Parks Songs
Arlo (pronounced AR-loh) is a traditionally male given name. Some sources state it to be of Old English origin, meaning "from the hill fort"; it was first used by Edmund Spenser, who "evidently invented" it, as the name of a hill where the gods debate in his poem '' The Faerie Queene'' (1590 and 1596). A 2018 Yahoo! UK article indicated an increasing popularity of "Arlo" – alongside such names as "James", "Charlie", "Noah", and "Reggie" as a girls' name in England and Wales. {{tocright People Arts and sciences * Arlo Bates (1850–1918), American author, educator and newspaperman * Arlo Gilliam (born 1977), American singer-songwriter and record producer * Arlo Guthrie (born 1947), American folk singer * Arlo Haskell, historian, poet, literary organizer, and publisher * Arlo Hemphill (born 1971), American explorer, ocean conservationist and film actor * Arlo U. Landolt (1935–2022), American astronomer * Arlo Parks (born 2000), British musician * Arlo West (born 1958), A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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