CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON
Caps Big 2018 With Release of Spotify Singles
Featuring "Doubt" & Cover of Dolly Parton's "Here You Come Again"
Stone Woman EP Out Now
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Photo credit: Bryan Huynh for V Magazine
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"Charlotte Day Wilson is a one-person powerhouse. The Toronto soul musician creates emotionally captivating songs by letting life simmer." - THE FADER
"Charlotte Day Wilson has a voice that can hold a room." - PITCHFORK
"An artist in complete control who doesn't shy away from displaying her vulnerability." - KCRW
"Stone Woman is an exercise in toiling in hurt and trying to express it thoughtfully." - NOISEY
"[A] rising multi-faceted powerhouse who is bridging the worlds of soul and R&B with her infectious music and production." - V MAGAZINE
"She can shush viewers to silence with heart-wrenching lyrics and rile them up with a surprise saxophone solo-all in the same song." - HARPER'S BAZAAR
Charlotte Day Wilson had an incredible 2018, a year that saw the release of her acclaimed second EP, Stone Woman, followed by sold-out tours across North American and Europe. She caps off the year with the release of her Spotify Singles, featuring live versions of her single "Doubt" and a cover of Dolly Parton's 1977 hit "Here You Come Again."
LISTEN: "DOUBT" / "HERE YOU COME AGAIN"
Since its release in February, Stone Woman has been streamed over 30 million times across all platforms. For the second time, Wilson was nominated for a Polaris Music Prize (her first EP CDW was nominated in 2017), and her video for "Work" (off CDW) was awarded the 2018 Prism Prize for best Canadian music video. Wilson and the video's director Fantavious Fritz used the prize money to create the Work Film Grant, a fund that awarded $10,000 to emerging female and non-binary directors.
Charlotte Day Wilson performed on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic in the spring, a session that the station called "stunning." April also saw the release of "No Pain," the DJDS single featuring Wilson on vocals alongside Khalid and Charlie Wilson. In July, she performed at the after party for the Louis Vuitton men's fashion show in Paris at the personal invitation of designer Virgil Abloh.
Charlotte Day Wilson will return in 2019 with more new music. Watch this space for more updates.
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Charlotte Day Wilson is a 26-year-old vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist from Toronto.
With roots ranging from R&B to folk, her soulful, singular voice and timeless sound garnered global attention with the 2016 release of her debut EP CDW, and through her work with friends and collaborators BADBADNOTGOOD, Daniel Caesar and River Tiber.
The November 2017 release of single "Doubt" marked her first new music in more than a year, an intimate yet accessible anthem for the unsure, driven by the strength and honesty of her voice. As with all her previous works, Charlotte served as performer, multi-instrumentalist and producer, an artist in full control of her unique creative vision.
"Doubt" also represented the opening salvo of Charlotte's second release, Stone Woman, a six-track project self-released February 23. Stone Woman is Charlotte's first project in the 18 months since CDW, and it chronicles the growth and uncertainty of that period, and a search for a sense of truth and identity.
"It's about recurring themes and issues repeating themselves in relationships," Charlotte told Pigeons & Planes in a January 2018 interview around the announcement of the EP.
"Stone Woman was a lyric I came up with for a song. As soon as the words came out of my mouth I knew there was a story I wanted to tell about this image of cold strength and beauty I was conjuring in my mind. When I was writing I kept coming back to those two words and I found an identity in them. It helped me understand how my stoic tendencies effect my relationships. It fit perfectly as the title."
The project represented a return as poignant as it was anticipated. The introductory CDW has been collectively streamed more than 25 million times and in June of 2017 it was named to the long list for the Polaris Music Prize.
"In Your Eyes," Charlotte's stirring vocal feature on BBNG's 2016 release IV, landed on the Polaris short list, while also earning BBC6 Music's Album Of The Year honor. Charlotte toured extensively in 2016 and 2017, selling out headline shows and sharing stages with Local Natives, Angel Olsen, BADBADNOTGOOD, Daniel Caesar, Thundercat, Syd, and many more.
But the release of Stone Woman marked a new chapter for Charlotte, one defined by clarity, vulnerability and strength. It was a clear statement of intent, a stirring demonstration of Charlotte's power and poise and her emergence as an essential voice in 2019 and beyond.
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