Famous British Singer, Arlo Parks

Arlo Parks is a British singer-songwriter and poet whose real name is Anas Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho. Collapsed in Sunbeams, her debut studio album was released in 2021 to critical acclaim and reached number three on the UK Albums Chart.

She went to Latymer Upper, a private school where she played a lot of sports and had her head buried in books, according to her. Parks cites Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf as influences, and the title of the album is based on a line from Zadie Smith’s On Beauty.
Arlo Parks describes herself as “a black kid who can’t dance for shit and listens to emo music” when she was younger. Fast forward to now, she is regarded as one of the most intriguing new musicians out there. Her honeyed voice flowed over lush folk instrumentation and delicate boom-bap beats, drawing inspiration from everyone from Otis Redding and David Bowie to MF Doom and Julien Baker.

At the 2021 Brit Awards, she received nominations for Album of the Year, Best New Artist, and Best British Female Solo Artist for her debut album. It was awarded the Hyundai Mercury Prize for Best Album in 2021.
Parks’ tracks “Eugene” and “Black Dog,” which were warmly accepted during the COVID-19 lockdown, and the latter of which became BBC Radio 1’s Tune of the Week, were released in May 2020. In late July 2020, Parks was featured on the front cover of NME magazine. In August 2020, she won the AIM Independent Music Award for One to Watch 2020.