Chenayder

Chenayder fuses quirky lo-fi pop, smoky balladry, and vintage strains of pop and R&B within her highly stylized vision of classic soul and bedroom pop, yielding idiosyncratic indie soul songs. Millions of streams arrived with her breakthrough single “Fall” in 2022, whose anachronous arrangement spotlighted mid-century-style backing singers alongside strings and vibraphone. Her debut EP, Blue Oblivion, sustained that intimate yet ambitious tone through 2023, as did 2024’s Maybe in Another Life, which spotlighted the single “Colors,” a collaboration with MAVI.

Still enrolled in high school in Orlando, Florida, Chenayder (“sha-nye-der”) began circulating her earliest productions and original material in the opening years of the 2020s. December 2022’s “Fall,” co-produced with StainedTapes, ignited on TikTok; its timeless atmosphere braided Lawrence Welk, ’60s pop and soul, and sultry contemporary bedroom R&B. She followed with the Motown-inflected “My My” the next January. Blue Oblivion surfaced in May 2023 while she was only 16 and contained “Strawberry Perfume,” another track exceeding a million streams that again employed girl-group backing vocals.

Attention around her swoony aesthetic prompted Sony’s Alamo Records imprint to sign her, resulting in the July 2024 release of her second EP, Maybe in Another Life. The project was fronted by “Teenage Heartbreak” and the MAVI-assisted “Colors.”