Valencia Grace

One Liner:  Unmemorable pop singer with a nice voice that can Adele at times

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia, but pop

Home: Oxford, England

Poster Position: 16
Both Weekends.
Saturday at 1:35.

IHG Stage.

Thoughts:  Another one that I am stopping my work to bang out the review because I just really don't want to hear this anymore.  It isn't awful, kind of a combination between Adele and Lana Del Rey, but there is a sameness to the songs and a lack of excitement in the underlying tunes that is leaving me very uninterested.

A weird development with some of these young artists - no Wikipedia, zero bio on her website, her Spotify bio says "hope you hear your story," and the first page of google results about her have no background/interviews/bios/whatever.  My guess is that I am expected to watch TikTok videos or review her Instagram to figure out what she is about, but that is just weird.  A website called famousbirthdays.com has the most info of all, calling her a TikTok content creator with more than 2.5 million followers.  She apparently auditioned for Britain's Got Talent.  She is the 53,955th most popular person on that website and was born on June 24.

No albums.  A few singles and one EP.  Her top tune, "There I Said It" was a 2022 single that has the Adele sound.  1.3 million streams.

I think watching some Spanish-language songs on YouTube has jacked up my algorithm - the ads I am getting before videos are now sometimes in Spanish.  Great voice - not trying to diminish her talent at all.  Just kind of a boring backing song in the background.  No other song cracks a million for her, but "It Was You" comes close with 932k.

I promise she has songs that aren't about breakups.  Another one where her voice is remarkable - lovely sound and strength to it - but I promise that in three days when someone goes "hey, any recommendations from what you've been hearing for ACL recently?" I will not remember this one in the slightest.