Sofia Valdes

One Liner: Indie pop singer with a great voice

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, indie pop
Home: Panama

Poster Position: 18
Weekend One Only.

Sunday at 1:45pm on the Miller Lite Stage.

Thoughts:  Pretty solid pop music.  She's Panamanian, and apparently has famous family members in the music world down there.  But she moved to America to attend school up in Michigan, and then shot off to London to go to the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.  She got bullied by the rude Michigan people because of her poor grasp of the English language, but her English is honestly really solid on these songs. 

Her music is pop - not really dance music pop, more like indie pop, like the Olivia Rodrigo type stuff.  She taught herself the guitar as a kid, watching YouTube videos to learn new stuff.

Just one album - 2021's Ventura.  The top track is "Lonely," with 2.3 million streams.

Her voice is really nice - has a clean tone that I really like.  "Little Did I Know" may be my favorite tune off of the album.  Her second-most streamed track has a beachy vibe and a cool, descriptive title, "Handful of Water."  1.9 million streams.

Looks like she went to Hawaii for a little R&R.  

I like this more than most of the other poppy artists on the poster.  I've enjoyed just letting these songs roll in the background as I've worked for a day or two.  Probably won't go see the show, but am pleasantly surprised.