{"id":62659,"date":"2020-10-15T17:46:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T15:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=62659"},"modified":"2020-10-15T18:16:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T16:16:35","slug":"arlo-parks-the-color-of-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/arlo-parks-the-color-of-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlo Parks, the color of emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 19-year-old London singer Arlo Parks is already one of the most promising voices of her generation. Here, she discusses her new single “Hurt” and her magical performance for the Colors Show.<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The voice of Arlo Parks is paradoxical: a fragile and moving timbre, balanced by the strength of the chosen words: “These stories and emotions come from my life, they\u2019re all very personal,”<\/em> she says. “I write what I\u2019ve lived and what I feel, always.” <\/em>Defining herself as a shy and hypersensitive tomboy during her teenage years, Arlo entered adulthood by delivering an EP and an album successively. Sophie<\/em> and Super Sad Generation<\/em> record the still-fresh after-effects of the turbulent period we are living through. Somewhere between rap, soul and spoken-word, she evokes the possibility of healing and of comforting those who are going through difficult times. In this way “Hurt” continues in the vein of her magnificent previous single “Black Dog.” From the very first verse, she fills the empty room of the Colors studio with purified emotion, filtering her teenage rage through her golden voice and adding a touch of humor along the way: “They reached out letting me know that they were fans of my work and it was a beautiful session. I genuinely enjoyed myself so much and doing Colors has been on my bucket list since I was very young.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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