Alice Phoebe Lou

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Alice Phoebe Lou at the Rudolstadt Festival 2019

Alice Phoebe Lou (born July 19, 1993 in Cape Town ) is a South African singer-songwriter .

Life

Lou grew up in Kommetjie on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa, where her parents worked as documentary filmmakers ; As a child she took piano lessons, as a teenager she taught herself to play the guitar by herself . In 2010, the then 16-year-old spent the summer holidays with her aunt in Paris , where she met some street artists and practiced fire poi for the first time . After returning to South Africa and completing school at a Waldorf school , Lou left her home country at the age of 18 for a " gap year " again for Europe , first traveling to Amsterdam . There she earned her living with performances as a fire dancer, and during a subsequent stay in Berlin she also played self- composed pieces of music and interpretations of well-known songs.

In 2013 she finally moved to Berlin, where she has been performing as a street musician ever since. In 2014 she produced her first EP with Momentum , and two years later her debut album Orbit was released . She financed the latter herself and, despite some offers from well-known record companies, decided on a smaller label and against a permanent record contract, also because she spoke out against the commercialization of her music; for the same reason she declined the invitation of the English musician James Blunt to play in the opening act of his European tour. Despite everything, Lou has now been a guest at various major festivals and, in addition to her street performances, also gives concerts.

Alice Phoebe Lou lives in Berlin-Neukölln .

Discography

  • Momentum (EP, 2014)
  • Live at Grüner Salon (2014)
  • Orbit (Album, 2016; Motor Music )
  • Sola (EP, 2017)
  • Paper Castles (album, 2019)
  • A Place of My Own (Mahogany Sessions) (digital EP, 2019)
  • Live at Funkhaus (Album, 2020)

Web links

Commons : Alice Phoebe Lou  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Born, Robert u. Shah, Viral: Alice Phoebe Lou: Berlin's best-kept secret. Café Babel, June 11, 2015, accessed February 4, 2017 .
  2. ^ Poppendieck, Kerstin: Street musician from South Africa conquers Berlin. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . April 25, 2016. Retrieved February 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Biography - Alice Phoebe Lou. In: laut.de . Retrieved February 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c Lange, Nadine: Liberty love and a thick skin. In: Der Tagesspiegel . May 13, 2016. Retrieved February 4, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Jonas Wahmkow: "The most honest way to get money". In: The daily newspaper (taz) . March 3, 2019, accessed March 31, 2019 (pages 46–47).
  6. ↑ ROLLING STONE presents: Alice Phoebe Lou. In: rollingstone.de. January 11, 2017, accessed February 4, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Lou, Alice Phoebe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town , South Africa