Phoebe Green

It all started with a Barbie karaoke machine. On Christmas Day, age 4, Phoebe Green made her debut live performance. The audience (her family) were astounded. This karaoke machine gave Green more than just a hobby, it’s given the Manchester-based singer-songwriter a career that includes releasing an array of dark indie pop ballads, and being named in NME’s Top 100 Essential New Artists for 2020. Despite trying to go viral through webcam recordings of her performing in her bedroom at age 10, her breakthrough came about unexpectedly 8 years later. In 2016, she released her debut album 02:00AM, which was the originally just a school project. Suddenly, the lead single ‘Dreaming Of’ became a regular on BBC Radio 1, and still stands as one of her most played tracks on Spotify. Using her diary-entry style writing process, she reveals all the gory details, a snapshot of the stories she’s trying to tell, then allows listeners to assemble the rest for themselves. This brutal honesty combined with her uncanny poeticism makes for catchy melodies with a depth that lingers beyond the end of the songs.