Gigi Perez

One Liner: Excellent indie rock lyrics with a surprising voice
Wikipedia Genre: indie folk, indie pop
Home: West Palm Beach, FL (although maybe NYC now)

Poster Position: Second Quarter - Line 7
Day: Sunday
Both Weekends.

Thoughts: She's got a track with over a billion streams?  What in the actual?  And, I'm not trying to be a rude ass boomer or something, but she definitely sounds like a dude?

It's a nice song, but why in the world does that have a billion streams?  "Sailor Song" and 1.021 billion, for those keeping track.  But if this was just called Perez, and I hadn't seen a video, I would definitely think this singer was male.  Fascinating.  Anne Hathaway look-alike getting her vape on.

Gianna Brielle Perez was born in New Jersey and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida.  In high school she was in a band called Wendy Lane, and then attended Berklee College of Music before the pandemic shut it down.  Her older sister Celene died in 2020, and to cope with her grief she started releasing videos on TikTok.  Her tracks "Celene" and "Sometimes (Backwoods)" went viral there, which got her signed with Interscope Records.  After a few singles and an EP, she was released from Interscope and then released that track above in July 2024, which went to #22 on the Billboard Top 100 after also going viral on the TikeddyTok.  Some Christian nerds got uptight about the line saying she doesn't believe in God, but either way it helped her get signed to Island Records.

I've just let it roll for a day, and this is honestly really good music.  She had a 2023 EP called How to Catch a Falling Knife and then a 2025 album called At the Beach, In Every Life.  Sometimes, she sort of sounds like Jeff Buckley.  Her second-most streamed track was her first single (well, at least what Spotify provides us).  "Sometimes (Backwoods)" has 158.4 million streams.

I like that too.  Got a great indie rock vibe going - in addition to Buckley, I'm hearing Death Cab.  She credits Troye Silvan as being an inspiration, but that is something that I don't know at all.  She is great - a fun surprise when I was expecting something different.  I'd go see her for sure.