Freya Ridings’ music weaves a direct line between her piano notes and our heartstrings.  Unveiled in the summer of 2018 thanks to the success of her track “Lost Without You”, the British artist has been on target ever since. With a warm voice that she wields like an instrument, she shook up the charts again a year later with the sublime “Castles”. An emblematic song of her elegant pop that catches us cold because it is so honest and intimate.  While you might think that its melancholy makes it isolating, the music of the talented Freya has the opposite effect, taking on a liberating dimension when shared. So much so that her first two albums were recorded in public, in an intimate and suspended atmosphere.  Her return to the airwaves with the disco-esque “Weekends” heralded a concert that was both smooth and hard-hitting.  

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