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DEBBY FRIDAY - Berlin, Monarch
Event by: Trinity Music, DEBBY FRIDAY, Area One
Location: Monarch Bar, Skalitzer Straße 134, Berlin - Bezirk Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
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Basically, you don't have to say more than that: if a legendary label like Sub Pop, which one day was responsible for the global triumphal march of Grunge and has been characterized since then, to discover new talents in the (rock) music, suddenly takes a black solo artist between electronics, pop and R’n’B, then this artist must be very special. This happened with Debby Friday, which succeeded in Sub Pop with her second album at the beginning of August.
Alone: On this kaleidoscopic work entitled "The Starrr of the Queen of Life", Debby Friday defines success according to your very own ideas. "I want to be a star, I can't hide this wish," she says. "But I don't want to follow the dream of another life or a prefabricated path." For the Nigerian-Canadian all-round talent, which writes his music completely alone, this star existence means living in the extremes: publicly vs. private, hybris vs. humility, high-altitude set of setback.
Debby Friday was born in Nigeria and emigrated to Canada as a child, where she moved from Montreal to Vancouver to Toronto. During this time she perfected her skills as a versatile, multidisciplinary artist. In naturally autodidactic, she debut in 2018 with the publication of her self-produced EP "Bitchunkt", which was praised by underground fans and led to her first public appearances. In 2023 her debut album "Good Luck", which was celebrated by the criticism, was published. The New York Times described the album as "ambitious and charismatic" and called Friday a "versatile dynamo that travels through various tempos and genres". Six months after the publication, the album was chosen as the winner of the renowned Polaris Music Prize 2023 - what Debby Friday only spurred on to continue with the next work in the individual extreme. Accordingly,
is "the rigid of the queen of life" fully substantial and brims only in front of encrypted messages. It interweaves love letters with allusions to IT girl perfumes, French cognac and Hellenistic propheses. The album was created together with the Australian producer Darcy Baylis, for certain songs she hired other producers from special genres, such as the Noiserock specialists Graham Walsh (Metz, Holy F*ck), urban music icon Tayhana (Rosalia, N.A.A.F.I.) or the Detroiter Ghettotech-Wunderkinder Hitech. The bottom line is the striking expression of Friday's striving for an experimental pop sound that feels unmistakable at the same time.
Alone: On this kaleidoscopic work entitled "The Starrr of the Queen of Life", Debby Friday defines success according to your very own ideas. "I want to be a star, I can't hide this wish," she says. "But I don't want to follow the dream of another life or a prefabricated path." For the Nigerian-Canadian all-round talent, which writes his music completely alone, this star existence means living in the extremes: publicly vs. private, hybris vs. humility, high-altitude set of setback.
Debby Friday was born in Nigeria and emigrated to Canada as a child, where she moved from Montreal to Vancouver to Toronto. During this time she perfected her skills as a versatile, multidisciplinary artist. In naturally autodidactic, she debut in 2018 with the publication of her self-produced EP "Bitchunkt", which was praised by underground fans and led to her first public appearances. In 2023 her debut album "Good Luck", which was celebrated by the criticism, was published. The New York Times described the album as "ambitious and charismatic" and called Friday a "versatile dynamo that travels through various tempos and genres". Six months after the publication, the album was chosen as the winner of the renowned Polaris Music Prize 2023 - what Debby Friday only spurred on to continue with the next work in the individual extreme. Accordingly,
is "the rigid of the queen of life" fully substantial and brims only in front of encrypted messages. It interweaves love letters with allusions to IT girl perfumes, French cognac and Hellenistic propheses. The album was created together with the Australian producer Darcy Baylis, for certain songs she hired other producers from special genres, such as the Noiserock specialists Graham Walsh (Metz, Holy F*ck), urban music icon Tayhana (Rosalia, N.A.A.F.I.) or the Detroiter Ghettotech-Wunderkinder Hitech. The bottom line is the striking expression of Friday's striving for an experimental pop sound that feels unmistakable at the same time.