Andreya Triana is a British singer and songwriter, ''

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'' alumna and

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nominated artist hailing from South East London, Her debut album, '' Lost Where I Belong'' released in September 2010 on London based record label

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and featured singles such as "A Town Called Obsolete", "Far Closer" and the title track "Lost where I belong". The album was produced by British musician, DJ Simon Green aka

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. The album was later labelled as "Best Album of 2010" by Charles Aaron of ''

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''. Triana's second album, ''Giants'' was released in May 2015 on Counter Records, and peaked at number 59 on the '' Official UK Albums Chart.'' The lead single from the album ''Gold'' expanded Triana's fanbase and gained exposure after a string of television performances on ''

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'', '' The John Bishop Show'', and ''

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''. The track was also featured in the 2020

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Vera advert. Triana's best known work features songs such as "Song For A Friend", "Gold", and "Woman", which have featured in multiple TV and film pieces. Triana's third album ''Life in Colour'' was released in May 2019 on Hi-Tea Records. Triana collaborated with multiple producers for '' Life in Colour'', notably French

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-nominated musician and DJ

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who produced the majority of the album. The album was described as a "finger clicking, booty popping collection of summery joy" by '' Clash'' magazine features the singles "Woman", "Freedom", and "Broke".

Early life and education

Triana moved to

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in the West Midlands age 14. At 17 she started doing open mic night at a local music venue where the owner introduced her to a collective of musicians, with whom she formed a group called ''Bootis''. While studying for a degree in music technology in

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, Triana decided to re-form Bootis with new members and a new multi-genre sound. Soon, her love for improvisation would birth her Freeflo Sessions - a one woman show using a sampler to loop vocals, percussive sounds, and beats live. As a result of touring extensively with her Freeflo Sessions, she was selected in 2006 to participate in the '''Red Bull Music Academy'''' in Australia, where she further developed her style for improvisation and developed strong links within the

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Inspiration

Triana is an experimental, self-taught, singer, and songwriter originally hailing from South East London. Her husky voice is reminiscent of predecessors

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. Her style has been described as a fusion of soul, jazz, and pop. Triana has named a few of her greatest inspirations as

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, and

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Touring / gigs

In 2009, Triana toured the US and Canada with the Bonobo live band, and shortly afterwards played the

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Stage at

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in 2010. Triana has also played stages at multiple festivals, notably Soundwave Festival, The Great Escape,

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. Triana reached new heights in 2015 as she made her second appearance, performing live at

on the Greenpeace Stage, and headlining a sold-out show at the historic venue KOKO in London. Her largest audience however was a main stage performance to 50,000 people for

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- Live in Hyde Park in 2016. Triana has also had a string of DJ performances featuring sets at BlackSITTER - The Cactus Hound Bar and Gilles Peterson's ''‘We Out Here’'' Festival. As of 2021, Triana joined UK

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collective

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as an active touring member, replacing longtime backup vocalist Rudi Salmon.

Awards

In 2016, Triana was invited to be a judge for Best Album at the ''Ivor Novello awards'' alongside fellow musicians

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and

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. At the 2015

awards, Triana was nominated for Best R&B/Soul Act and later performed ‘Playing With Fire’ on the main stage at the awards to a sea of her fellow musicians.

Television / media features

Andreya's music has featured in shows such as ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Self Made'', and ''

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'', which collected 23 million viewers within its first month. August 2021 - "Beautiful People" from Triana's album ''Life in Colour'' featured on ''NBA 2K-22'' March 2020 - "Woman" from Triana's album ''Life in Colour'' featured on ''Self Made'' Season 1, Ep 2 July 2019 - "Beautiful People" from Triana's album ''Life in Colour'' featured on ''Love Island'' (UK) Season 5, Ep 25 June 2019 - "Heart In My Hands" from Triana's album ''Giants'' featured on ''Love Island'' (UK) Season 5, Ep 3 June 2019 - "Woman" from Triana's album ''Life in Colour'' featured on Schwarzkopf Live XXL advert for their campaign #GENERATIONCOLOUR May 2019 - "Song For A Friend" from Triana's album ''Giants'' featured on ''

'' Season 1, Ep 3 March 2019 - "Woman" from Triana's album ''Life in Colour'' featured on ''Good Trouble'' Season 1, Ep 9 September 2019 - "Gold" from Triana's album ''Giants'' featured on the 2020

Versa advert and also in Target's "Good We Can All Afford" campaign. July 2018 - "Lullaby" from Triana's album ''Giants'' featured on ''

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'' Season 3, Ep 12 January 2018 - "Gold" from Triana's album ''Giants'' featured on ''Burden of Truth'' Season 1, Ep 3 September 2018 - "Beautiful People" from Triana's album ''Life in Colour'' featured on ''

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'' Soundtrack July 2017 - "Gold" from Triana's album ''Giants'' featured on ''So You Think You Can Dance'' Season 14, Ep7 June 2017 - "Heart In My Hands" from Triana's album ''Giants'' featured on ''

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'' Season 2, Ep 2 March 2017 - "Heart In My Hands" from Triana's album ''Giants'' featured on ''

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'' Season 3, Ep 10 Feb 2017 - "Gold" from Triana's album ''Giants'' featured on ''

'' Season 4, Ep 7 November 2016 - "Lost Where I Belong" from Triana's album '' Lost Where I Belong'' featured on ''

'' Season 1, Ep 13 October 2016 - "Heart In My Hands" from Triana's album ''Giants'' featured on ''

'' Season 13, Ep 3 September 2014 - Andreya's track "Better Days To Come" Featured on ''

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'' June 2014 - "Draw the Stars" from Triana's album '' Lost Where I Belong'' featured on ''

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'' Season 1, Ep 1 March 2013 - "Draw the Stars" from Triana's album '' Lost Where I Belong'' featured on ''

'' Season 4, Ep 17 October 2010 - "Draw the Stars" from Triana's album Lost Where I Belong'' featured on ''90210'' Season 3, Ep 5

Live television performances

October 2015 - Live Performance of Gold on Chris Evans' ''

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'' December 2015 - Live Performance ''

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'' April 2015 - Live Performance of "Gold" on '' Later... with Jools Holland'' May 2015 - Live Performance of "Gold" on ''

'' June 2015 - Live Performance of "Gold" at

. July 2015 - Live Performance of "Gold" on '' The John Bishop Show'' August 2019 - Live Performance of "Freedom" on ''

''.

Feature collaborations / sessions

During her time at

, Triana collaborated with electronic musician and producer

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to create "Tea Leaf Dancers". The track was hailed as a classic, getting rave reviews from

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and Gilles Peterson while getting airplay on

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's ''Radio One show''. DJ and musician Simon Green, better known by his stage name

, featured Triana's vocals on 2010 album '' Black Sands'' on the tracks "Eyes Down", "The Keeper", and "Stay The Same" In 2013 Triana also featured on

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’s Top 10 single "Everything You Never Had (We Had It All)", which reached no. 9 on the Official Singles chart. Triana also featured on

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-based producer

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’s 2013 album ''Half Shadows'' on the track "Green" Triana featured on the tracks "U never know" and "Puzzle" from

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-based electronic producer

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’s 2015 album ''Lustmore''. Triana joined jazz artist

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in the Radio 2 studio in 2018 for a rendition of "Silent Night". Triana collaborated with

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-based artist, Henry Green, featuring on the tracks "Tide" and "More" from Henry's 2020 album ''Half Light''. Triana is also the main feature artist The Vision's debut self titled album. ''TEDx Frankfurt'' In November 2019 Triana was a guest speaker at

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, where she also performed renditions of her tracks "''A Town Called Obsolete''" and "''Woman''" ''Mahogany Sessions'' In 2019 Triana was invited to perform at the infamous

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where she gave a rendition of ''‘Broke’'' from her 2019 album ‘ ''Life in Colour''’. Other artists to be invited to perform for Mahogany Sessions feature Billy Eiilish,

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, and

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. ''Sofar Sounds'' Triana has been invited to perform with

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twice now, firstly in 2015 where she performed ''‘That's Alright With Me’'' from her sophomore album ‘ ''Giants''’ and secondly in 2019 where she performed ''‘Woman’'' from her third album ‘ ''Life in Colour''’. Andreya's 2015 performance is Sofar’s most watched video in

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with 4 million views.

Discography

Albums

EP's

Singles

Features

Remixes

References

External links

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