UPSAHL

American singer-songwriter UPSAHL blends introspective adult-alternative textures with buoyant pop energy, introducing her inviting vocal tone and incisive songwriting through independent recordings that began in her mid-teens. Her first major-label project, the 2019 EP Hindsight 20/20, marked her formal introduction, while the follow-up EP Young Life Crisis appeared the next year. Two charting tracks from 2022, “Antsy” and “Into My Body,” anchored her Sagittarius EP, and she unveiled the standalone single “Good Girl Era (Side A)” in 2023.

Born Taylor Upsahl in Phoenix, Arizona, she grew up in a household steeped in music: her father, Mike Upsahl, had toured with Surf Through Death, High Horse, and the post-hardcore outfit Stereotyperider, while both of her grandparents worked as music educators. Piano and guitar lessons started at age five, and by sixth grade she was already composing original material. At fourteen she began issuing acoustic-leaning songs under her full name; then, shortly after completing studies at the Arizona School for the Arts, she issued her debut pop single, 2017’s “Can You Hear Me Now,” now credited simply as UPSAHL.

After relocating to Los Angeles in 2018, she entered structured writing sessions via a publishing agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group. She became the inaugural signing to the reactivated Arista Records imprint under Sony, which released the Max Frost-produced single “Kiss Me Now” and its successor “The Other Team” before year’s end. Fronted by the track “Drugs,” her debut EP Hindsight 20/20 arrived in March 2019 and was supported by a run of dates alongside Frost. Young Life Crisis followed in 2020, highlighted by the single “People I Don’t Like.” Early 2021 brought the collaborative cut “Palm Reader” with Dreamers and Big Boi, plus the solo releases “STOP!” and “Douchebag.” UPSAHL opened 2022 with the well-received singles “Monica Lewinsky,” “Into My Body,” and “Antsy,” the latter pair appearing on the Sagittarius EP. In 2023 she joined Le Sserafim on a reimagined version of the K-pop group’s “Eye, Psyche & the Bluebeard’s Wife” and issued the new singles “Good Girl Era (Side A)” and “Condoms (Side B).”