Rina Sawayama
London-based artist whose debut album SAWAYAMA spliced 2000s R&B-pop with nu-metal riffs, as on 'STFU!' and 'XS'. Big hooks with sudden swerves.
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About Rina Sawayama
Rina Sawayama was born in Niigata, Japan, and moved to London as a small child. She studied at Cambridge and worked as a model while releasing her first music, including the 2017 EP RINA, a run of glossy, late-90s-indebted R&B and pop.
Her debut album SAWAYAMA came out on Dirty Hit in 2020. Her exclusion from the Mercury Prize and BRIT Awards that year, because she did not hold British citizenship, led both to change their eligibility rules. Hold the Girl followed in 2022, pulling more toward stadium pop-rock and early-2000s balladry, and she recorded a duet version of 'Chosen Family' with Elton John. She made her screen acting debut in John Wick: Chapter 4.
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Rina Sawayama plays alternative, electropop and contemporary r&b.
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Rina Sawayama's first album was SAWAYAMA (2020). The latest is Hold the Girl (2022).