BBC Sound Of 2018 winner Sigrid, today releases ‘Raw’, the first in a collection of brand new material, set to drop every week for the next five weeks. The last few months have been remarkable for the Norwegian pop sensation. From a blisteringly beautiful Nobel Peace Prize performance, moving Helen Mirren on the Graham Norton Show, to reaching the top 10 in the UK charts with A-list single ‘Strangers’.
Sigrid now has a global reach of 185M streams and 2M sales with the mood-defining Don’t Kill My Vibe EP and brutally honest ‘Strangers’. The 21-year-old has won over fans in every territory with her incredible live performance, defiant pop songs and non-conformist attitude to femininity. Sigrid is about to head out on a sell-out UK run, kicking things off in fine fashion at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire last night.
From the tiny town of Ålesund in Norway, which sits at the entrance of a UNESCO-protected fjord surrounded by sea and mountains, Sigrid has been creating a world which emboldens her followers, displaying outstanding song writing ability with hard-hitting and empowering words, laced over unexpected and daring melodies. Sigrid was chosen by 170 influential music experts to win the BBC Sound of 2018, the first non-American or non-British winner in the poll’s 16-year history (previous winners including Adele and Florence and the Machine). With 5.2M monthly Spotify listeners, Sigrid burst into the public consciousness in February 2017, with the “song of the summer” Don’t Kill My Vibe (The Times & The Telegraph), which caught the attention of Lorde and Elton John and captured the imagination of a generation.
TOUR
Sat 17 Mar Bristol Motion
Sun 18 Mar Birmingham Institute 2
Tue 20 Mar Leeds Leeds University
Wed 21 Mar Glasgow St Lukes
Fri 23 Mar Dublin The Academy
Sat 24 Mar Manchester Academy 2
Wed 11 Apr Toronto Velvet Underground
Sat 14 Apr Indio, CA Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
Mon 16 Apr Los Angeles El Rey
Tues 17 Apr San Francisco, CA The Independent
Sat 21 Apr Indio, CA Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
Tues 24 Apr New York Promo, Tonight Show w/ Jimmy Fallon
Wed 25 Apr New York Bowery Ballroom
FESTIVALS
Sun 10 Jun Manchester Parklife
Sun 17 Jun Landsgraaf Pinkpop
Fri 29 Jun Clermont-Ferrand Europavox
Sat 30 Jun St Gallen Openair St. Gallen
Sun 01 Jul Glasgow TRNSMT
Sat 07 Jul Roskilde Roskilde
Sun 08 Jul Werchter Rock Werchter
Fri 10 Aug Finland Helsinki Flow
Sat 25 Aug Reading Reading Festival
Sun 26 Aug Leeds Leeds Festival
