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Rachel Chinouriri is fully in her main character era. The London-born singer-songwriter has a rare gift: she can take emotions like heartbreak, hope, doubt, and confusion, and turn them into songs that feel made for you. No wonder her fans, the “Darlings,” don’t just listen they live inside her world.

Rachel Chinouriri cover album “What a devastating turn of events”.

Raised in Croydon in a Zimbabwean household, Rachel grew up between British indie, pop, and soul. In 2018 she dropped her first tracks on SoundCloud, and the following year her Mama’s Boy EP put her on the map. “So My Darling” later went viral on TikTok, proof her music finds people exactly when they need it.

With Four° In Winter (2021), she started making waves across genres: indie pop laced with alt-rock textures. “Give Me a Reason” didn’t just hit hard it landed her an Ivor Novello nomination.

Fast-forward to her debut What a Devastating Turn of Events (2024): an album that feels like opening someone else’s diary, no filter. It carries lazy-afternoon indie and late-night heartbreak in the same track. Songs like “The Hills” and “Never Need Me” capture that sweet-but-sharp duality perfectly.

But Chinouriri is bigger than pretty songs. In 2024, she pulled out of SXSW in protest over military ties, grounding it in her own family history, her parents were child soldiers in Zimbabwe. On social media, she calls out how Black women are sidelined in indie spaces, refusing to let her art be mislabeled. Everything she does feels bigger than music.

And live? Unreal. She can have a crowd screaming the lyrics one second and completely silent the next. Her first North American headline tour sold out in minutes, and she also gained major recognition as the opener on Sabrina Carpenter’s latest ‘Short n’ Sweet’ tour. The momentum is nothing short of massive.

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