BENNETT is like the friend who always understands exactly what you’re going through and knows what to say to make you feel better. Tears, toxic relationships, heartbreak, addiction, anxiety, and anxiousness absorb into her music and bleed back out as R&B-backed bops with bite. The daughter of a single mother, she embraced music wholeheartedly as a kid. During middle school, she performed in jazz band and pep band and started to write and record original material by high school. Under the influence of Lana Del Rey, Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean, SZA, and her “favorite artist” The Weeknd, she cut through the noise and made waves on Soundcloud with a 2018 cover of Jorja Smith’s “I Am.” Her original debut single “Never Yours” eventually generated 2.3 million Spotify streams followed by “Groupie” and “Gone.” Signing to Atlantic Records, she dropped her debut EP THINGS I NEVER SAID in 2020. The single “Give Me A Reason” eclipsed 6 million global streams and almost 1 million YouTube views. Lyrical Lemonade urged, “Give her a listen before she blows up,” while Cool Accidents posited, “‘Give Me A Reason’ might just be her strongest release yet.” Racking up millions of streams and garnering praise from OnesToWatch and Elevator, to name a few, the Connecticut singer and songwriter deals with her own demons on her 2021 EP led by the anthemic earworm “Buzzed”, beats them back, and comes out of it even stronger.