Ren Harvieu
Meet a Lancashire girl whose voice and sound will stop you dead in your tracks. Her name is Ren Harvieu. Her hair is heavy and shaggy, her eyes lined with kohl, her manner as down-to-earth as the streets of Broughton in Salford, which is where she was born, just over twenty-one years ago.
Schooled in dusty youth club contests rather than star-spangled pop schools, she has had quite a life already; she’s also had quite a last 12 months. A terrifying accident nearly ended everything for her in the summer of 2011, but now, only months after she thought she would never walk again, she is walking back to us.
So here she still is – and how she sings. Ren opens her mouth, and her voice transports us to a place where youthfulness becomes yearning, where dreams become dramas, and music aches longingly, full of beauty and power.
‘Ren Harvieu’s musical inspirations seem to come from three decades before her birth - the string-soaked white soul of Dusty Springfield or the cinematic melancholic MOR of The Walker Brothers’ - BBC Sound Of 2012
‘A voice to die for’ - Grazia
‘She reveals her remarkable voice, a tender and muscular organ, that evokes some of the great divas of bygone years’ - The Observer
‘Manchester’s answer to Shelby Lynne. She’s armed with a clutch of fabulous quasi-classics. Perhaps as the missing link between Shirley Bassey and Adele’ - The Guardian
www.renharvieu.com
Schooled in dusty youth club contests rather than star-spangled pop schools, she has had quite a life already; she’s also had quite a last 12 months. A terrifying accident nearly ended everything for her in the summer of 2011, but now, only months after she thought she would never walk again, she is walking back to us.
So here she still is – and how she sings. Ren opens her mouth, and her voice transports us to a place where youthfulness becomes yearning, where dreams become dramas, and music aches longingly, full of beauty and power.
‘Ren Harvieu’s musical inspirations seem to come from three decades before her birth - the string-soaked white soul of Dusty Springfield or the cinematic melancholic MOR of The Walker Brothers’ - BBC Sound Of 2012
‘A voice to die for’ - Grazia
‘She reveals her remarkable voice, a tender and muscular organ, that evokes some of the great divas of bygone years’ - The Observer
‘Manchester’s answer to Shelby Lynne. She’s armed with a clutch of fabulous quasi-classics. Perhaps as the missing link between Shirley Bassey and Adele’ - The Guardian
www.renharvieu.com
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