In many ways 23-year-old singer-songwriter Holly Humberstone has had a charmed entry into the music business. She built a fan base of millions from her bedroom during the pandemic — emerging from the cocoon of successive lockdowns a fully-formed pop sensation, with two EPs that caught the hearts and minds of fans and critics alike.
She came runner up in the BBC’s Sound of 2021 and a year later was named 2022’s Brit Rising Star (previous winners of the award include Adele, Florence and the Machine and Sam Fender). She’s written songs with the 1975’s Matty Healy and now with 220 million streams behind her she’s set to release her debut album, Paint My Bedroom Black in October and her new single, Superbloodmoon (feat. D4vd) today. It’s a fairy tale for — as she puts it, when we meet one lunchtime in north London — “a girl from rural Lincolnshire, who went to a science and languages school and had no f***** idea about how any of this works.”
