Anonic & Louise Golbey
A Place I call Home
Release: April 30, 2021
Louise Golbey - Early career
Golbey grew up in a musical family. Her grandfather played classical violin. Her uncle plays piano and her mother sings. Brought up in Bournemouth, she moved back to her home city after university to pursue a music career.[1]
Her first album, Novel (2015) was mixed and mastered by Drew 'Beats' Horley and included special guests Omar and Morris Pleasure and featured one track produced by grammy awards winning producer Aamir Yaqub Rihanna 's Unapolgetic album.
Gigs and tours
She has played at London venues such as Ronnie Scotts, the London Hippodrome, and The Jazz Café. She has performed in France (Musique Cordiale Festival, Provence) and Germany (Cascadas Bar in Hamburg), at the Glastonbury Festival via BBC Introducing,[2] the Isle of Wight Festival,[3] and the London Jazz Festival. She was the opening act for George Benson at Kenwood House Picnic Concert and supported the Stylistics on their UK tour.[4][5]
She has worked on tracks with Example and Newham Generals and has shared the stage with Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Anthony David, Roy Ayers, Katy B, Paloma Faith, Mr Hudson, Lianne La Havas, Omar, Alexander O'Neal, Heatwave (band) Kenny Thomas, En Vogue, Dexter Wansel and Eric Benet.
And in September 2019 she performed at The Electric Soul Festival in London's 02 Arena supporting Kool and The Gang, Brand New Heavies, Level 42 and Heather Small.
Her music video for "How It Is" (which she also recorded in French) was nominated in the UK Music Video Awards. She was[when?] chosen as Caffe Nero Artist of the Month following Jack Savoretti.
Her 2019 single 'Different' was co-written with a produced by Dan Dare (aka Slang).[6]
Songwriting and podcast
Louise co-wrote and sang the theme tune for UK comedy series Sex, Lattes and Hideous Dates for Amazon Prime.
In 2020, as well as working on her second album with single release Scarlet Woman produced by Mafro W (guitarist for Ghetts and Shakka, she is currently writing with Rob Davis (grammy award winning co-writer of Can't Get You Out Of My Head for Kylie Minogue and writing toplines for Eurovision 2021. Louise has also started a podcast called What You Didn't Know About... where she interviews some of the top UK songwriters about their songwriting process and meanings behind their most successful songs. So far she has interviewed Ivor Novello winning songwriter Michelle Escoffery (Truce), Omar, Fiona Bevan and Rob Davis.
Louise has played at Glastonbury & Isle of Wight Festivals, recorded at Maida Vale for BBC Introducing & shared the stage / supported many established artists including Ed Sheeran (who is also in one of her videos), Katy B, Jessie J, Lianne La Havas, Anthony David, The Drifters, Mitch Winehouse, George Benson, Roberta Flack and En Vogue at The Indig02. The Stylistics (UK Tour support), Roy Ayers, Heatwave and Omar (who also features on her album Novel) at The Jazz Cafe, Eric Benet at The Hideaway and most recently she performed at The o2 Arena in London supporting Kool and The Gang, Level 42 and Brand New Heavies at The Electric Soul festival. She has worked on tracks with Example & Newham Generals (signed to Dizzie Rascal's Dirtee Stank label). Very established on the live music scene in London and beyond - she has a lot of support from DJs on BBC 1Xtra, 6 Music, Jazz FM, Mi Soul and radio stations across Europe. Her track Family Tree was recently played on Clare Balding's Radio 2 show and she was Caffe Nero's Artist of The Month (following Jack Savoretti).
Her singles have appeared on The Official Charts New Music Friday list & was Mi-Soul radio's 'One To Watch' on its release week. And her latest single 'Different' was produced by Dan Dare aka Slang (who has worked with MNEK, Joel Correy, Wiley, Giggs, Charli XCX & Marina and The Diamonds) was Record of The Day and featured in Music Week.
She is currently writing with Grammy award winning songwriter Rob Davis
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