British-born singer-songwriter Dhruv has immediately launched his debut album, ‘Non-public Blizzard’, by way of Little Fear/RCA Information.
‘Non-public Blizzard’ comes two years after Dhruv’s final undertaking ‘rapunzel‘, and options new single ‘One and Solely’ alongside previously-released tracks ‘Grieving’, ‘Speed of Light’, ‘How?’ and ‘Tragedy’.
Recorded in Nashville with in-demand Grammy-nominated producer JT Daly (Noah Kahan, Bully, Benson Boone), ‘Non-public Blizzard’ sees Dhruv exploring the total gamut of feelings he felt as he got down to make an expansive assortment of songs from a spot of inventive freedom. The album memorialises the tide modifications in Dhruv’s life, framing generally knotty experiences with identification and queerness via jazz-imbued pop songs that search to affirm and encourage.
“After I was in highschool and felt fully alone in my queerness, music held my hand and noticed me via my personal blizzard,” Dhruv says. “On this newest interval of life, which has been turbulent in numerous methods, I’ve once more discovered a way of rootedness in making songs. Irrespective of how far I stray, it’s what it has all the time come again to. I’m so grateful for what this album has executed for me and so glad for it to be out on the earth.”
Dhruv’s musical output is influenced partially by his diasporic origin story. Of Indian descent, he was born in London, raised in Singapore while additionally spending some years within the US. His fascination with music started with the Bollywood soundtracks he’d hear at his grandmother’s home. After years of writing songs privately, he put his research at Yale on maintain to make a go of music in earnest from his bed room.
Dhruv will help Jordan Rakei on a European tour commencing this September. He just lately performed a present supporting Stray Youngsters at London’s BST Hyde Park, following sold-out headline exhibits in Los Angeles and London in Might.
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