30 Jul 2020

Sad Summer

Ronnie Watts

W!ZARD Talent

WE SAY

American artist Ronnie Watts has spent most of her youth honing her songwriting skills, building a recording studio in her basement in Rochester, New York, and journaling her heartbreak through a lens of pop music. Earlier this year she released her first record for W!ZARD Talent, the piano-based ballad Famous In California, which has so far amassed over 250k streams. She followed it up with the poppy Break Your Heart and recently dropped this, her latest single, documenting her heartbreak during the summer of 2019. Bridging 1989-era Taylor Swift with tinges of Lorde and Halsey, Sad Summer is a lush alt-pop affair written by Ronnie and produced by Harper James. It quickly found support at Deezer with additions to their Brand New UK and Pop Fresh playlists, along with support from Popjustice, Skope Magazine and other online blogs. She performed on #TogetherAtHome live stream with Global Citizen in support of the World Health Organisation, and is now preparing her debut EP, full of tales of youthful bliss and teenage angst, for release this September. A new alt-pop star in the making.

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