Alice Phoebe Lou (born 19 July 1993) is a South African singer-songwriter. She has released two EPs and three albums. In December 2017 her song "She" from the film Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story was included on the Oscars shortlist for Best Original Song.
Lou spent her childhood in Kommetjie on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa and attended Waldorf school. Her parents are documentary filmmakers. She took piano lessons as a child but learned to play guitar herself. When she was 14 year old she was fond of trance music and started to take photographs from concerts, sometimes even getting paid for them. In 2010 she spent her summer holiday in Paris living first with her aunt but soon moved to live with a friend and started earning money by fire-dancing.
Having a gap year after graduating from high school in South Africa in 2012 she returned to Europe, first to Amsterdam and then to Berlin. In Berlin she started to sing and play guitar as she found out that this was more lucrative than fire-dancing. After her gap year she contemplated attending university in South Africa, but eventually decided to purchase a battery powered amplifier and return to Berlin instead. In Berlin, she performed on S- and U-bahn stations and parks. After one month in Berlin, she played on a television programme. In April 2014 she self-released "Momentum" EP. The song "Fiery Heart, Fiery Mind" from the EP featured in the soundtrack of the 2015 released film "Ayanda". She also started to play in venues.
After a performance at TEDx in Berlin on 6 September 2014 she started to get offers from record labels, but she wanted to stay independent. In December 2014 she released a live album "Live at Grüner Salon" as means to fund the recording of her debut studio album.
In 2015 she started to tour and played first time at SXSW festival in USA in 2015. She has returned to SXSW every year after that. She also performed in TEDGlobal London in 2015 and opened for Rodriguez on his 2016 South Africa tour.
In April 2016 Alice Phoebe Lou released her album "Orbit", produced by Matteo Pavesi and Jian Kellett-Liew. She was nominated for best female artist at the 2016 German critics choice awards in Germany and was invited to several German TV programs for interviews and performances.
She toured in Europe, South Africa and USA in 2016 and played three sold out shows at the Berlin Planetarium. More tours and sold out concerts followed in 2017 but Lou has also continued street performances.
In December 2017 she self-released nine track "Sola" EP and a book titled "Songs, poems and memories". The same month it was announced that her song "She" from the film Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story is on the shortlist for Academy Awards' Oscars in Best Original Song category. "She" was released as a digital single on 23 February 2018 with a music video directed by Natalia Bazina. During 2018 Alice Phoebe Lou toured Europe, USA, South Africa, Japan and Canada.
The first single Something Holy from her Paper Castles album was released on November 30 2018. On January 15, 2019 the second single, Skin Crawl, was released digitally. On February 15 third single, Galaxies, was released and at the end of the month an extensive US, Canada and Europe tour comprising over 40 concerts was started. The album was released on March 8, 2019.
On March Alice was the artist of the month of Consequence of Sound. On 6 May Galaxies video filmed in Zeiss Planetarium in Berlin featuring Maisie Williams was released. On May 30 Alice Phoebe Lou performed first time at the main stage of Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona. Later that day she had another smaller concert at the OCB Paper Sessions stage. Primavera Sound published an excerpt of the main stage concert in their Best of 2019 video collection.
In the beginning of June the video of Skin Crawl won third prize at the Berlin Music Video Awards in the best concept category.
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