Phoebe Ryan

Pop singer/songwriter Phoebe Ryan fuses the buoyant spirit of Carly Rae Jepsen with the detached edge of Tove Lo while matching the hook-driven precision of peers Daya and Chvrches. She entered the world in Dallas, Texas, yet spent her formative years beside the shore in Rumson, New Jersey, where a high-school Grateful Dead cover band first introduced her to performing. Her own material, however, steers sharply away from the territory explored by Garcia and his associates. At New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music she refined her skills, earning her degree in 2013 before relocating to Los Angeles to develop both her songwriting and solo careers in tandem. Early credits found her composing for Oh Honey, Tritonal, Skizzy Mars, Bea Miller, and Melanie Martinez; she later contributed the 2016 Glory cut “Man on the Moon” to Britney Spears. In 2015 she issued a mash-up that wove R. Kelly’s “Ignition” together with Miguel’s “Do You,” and the track found a home on her debut EP, Mine. Columbia Records soon signed her, and 2016 brought the single “Chronic”; that same day, remix team the Knocks released an album containing her vocal on “Purple Eyes.” Months afterward came “Dollar Bill,” which featured rapper Kid Ink, followed in early 2017 by the hook-laden “Dark Side.” Several further singles, among them the Blackbear-assisted “Forgetting All About You,” paved the way for her second EP, James, issued that October. Two standalone releases surfaced the next year: “Almost Back,” recorded with Kaskade and LöKii, and “Middle Finger,” a collaboration with Quinn XCII.