HOLLY HUMBERSTONE

Last month, Holly released the blistering single “Sleep Tight”, written with longtime collaborator Rob Milton and 1975’s Matty Healy -the second collaboration with Matty, following ‘Please Don’t Leave Just Yet’taken from her critically acclaimed second EP The Walls Are Way Too Thin. Writing deeply personal vignettes from her life, Holly started catching feelings for a friend and didn’t know how to navigate the risk of losing them, if she blurred the lines between friendship and romance. Holly performed “Sleep Tight” for the first time at Coachella Festival, captivating fans across the USA for her raw lyricism and soaring, complex guitar riffs and melodies. Winning the prestigious BRITs Rising Star earlier this year, Holly gave a captivating performance of the heartbreak ballad ‘London Is Lonely’ live at the awards show, which was the very first time she has ever stepped foot into the O2 Arena. Following in the footsteps of global superstars including Adele, Florence + The Machine, Sam Fender and Griff, Holly’s Rising Star win marks the start of a colossal year for the 22-year-old. Having just been nominated for Best Song Musically and Lyrically at this year’s Ivor Novello’s for ‘Haunted House’, alongside Adele, Ed Sheeran and Dave, and winning the NME Awards for “Best Mixtape” for The Walls Are Way Too Thin, Holly is a songwriter and artist whose lyrics and melodies transform painful human experience into collective joy.

Having released her critically acclaimed second EP The Walls Are Way Too Thin last year, about being lost and questioning where you belong last year, Holly has become the UK’s next great songwriting talent, with over 260M global streams. It is the honest storytelling at the heart of Holly’s craft that has captured the hearts and minds of fans globally, with “tattoo lyrics” that are specific to her life, from her sisters’ struggles with mental health to growing apart from her friends, where within the particular lives the universal. The EP features Holly’s “favourite” BBC A-listed ‘Scarlett’, the cinematic masterpiece title-track The Walls Are Way Too Thin, the immaculately beautiful‘Haunted House’, and ‘Friendly Fire’, which was performed with Bombay Bicycle Club’s Jack Steadman at her O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empireheadline, and ‘Thursday’, which sits at the poignant heart of the body of work. Holly has also leant her inimitable vocals to BRIT Winner Sam Fender’s smash hit ‘Seventeen Going Under’, with the star surprising Holly live on airwhen he presented her with the BRIT Rising Star Award, whilst Holly’s cover of Doja Cat’s“Kiss Me More”for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge and recent cover of Prince’s legendary‘I Would Die 4 U’, shows her incredible ability to reimagine and redefine.