Chappell Roan to Norway for the first time

The American artist Chappell Roan will come to Norway for the first time in the summer of 2025. Then she will close the first day of the Island Festival, they write in a press release. – She is among the artists most Øya audience members have wanted for next year’s festival. This will be her only concert in Norway in 2025, they write further. Roan has in a short time become one of the world’s biggest artists. She really broke through this year with songs like “Hot to go” and “Good luck, babe”. Both songs are approaching 1 billion plays on the streaming service Spotify. The festival takes place in Tøyenparken in Oslo from 6 to 9. August 2025. These are ready for Øya 2025 Chappell Roan(US) Khruangbin (US) Wet Leg (UK) MJ Lenderman and the Wind (US) The Impossible Green Anna of the North Anna Lille Vann prize for best new artist Roan is also nominated to a total of six Grammy awards. In recent years, she has, among other things, toured with the artist Olivia Rodrigo. He recently won the award for best new artist at the MTV Video Music Awards. Among the other nominees were Benson Boone and Gracie Abrams. The artist’s name is actually Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, but is undoubtedly best known under her stage name. Her music is, among other things, inspired by synthpop from the 1980s and early 2000s pop music. Growing slowly, Allereie in her teens was signed to the record label Atlantic, but they dropped Roan before she had released any albums. The debut album “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” did not arrive until 2023. In the meantime, she had created a completely different stage persona. From being a quiet singer-songwriter, she became more outspoken. To The Guardian, she has explained how she changed: – I grew up thinking that homosexuality was a sin. I went to a gay club once and it was like magic. It was the opposite of everything I had learned, Roan told the newspaper last year. It was precisely this visit to a gay club that inspired the artist to write one of the songs he is now best known for: Pink Pony Club. Published 19.11.2024, at 11.27 Updated 19.11.2024, at 12.00



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