Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho (born 9 August 2000), known professionally as Arlo Parks, is a British singer-songwriter and poet from West London Parks chose her stage name as a distinctive personal pseudonym Her music blends touches of indie pop, R&B, folk and bedroom pop and she has named Sylvia Plath, Radiohead and Joni Mitchell as some of her influencesIn 2018, she began uploading demos to BBC Music Introducing This caught the attention of radio presenters across the UK who distributed these demos to Ali Raymond of Beatnik Creative, who soon began managing Parks She made her solo debut when she released the song Cola through Beatnik Records in November 2018, by November 2019, the song had amassed over three million streams on Spotify Following the release of Cola, Parks signed to Transgressive Records, where she release the four-track EP Super Sad Generation in early April 2019 The EP was recorded in her home in South West London and an Airbnb in the Angel district of London with producer and co-writer Gianluca Buccellati Throughout the last half of 2019 Parks released the songs George, Second Guessing, Sophie and Angel's Song ahead of her second EP, Sophie, which was released in November 2019 Sean Kerwick told DIY that the five-track EP "oozes with the hang-ups of heartbreak and mortality; a topic that seems to overshadow many gen-Z musicians
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