At Streamingsdienst Spotify, SOMBR is currently good for 40 million monthly listeners. For comparison: DJ Martin Garrix is currently attracting 23 million listeners per month. In the so -called Global Top 40 it is with two hits at the top fifteen places. Those are the songs Undressed and Back to Friends.
Supporting act
“Actually, I would like to travel through Europe as a support act for Nessa Barrett,” says Booose. Barrett is a Tiktok sensation to whom the American thought he was moving up. But the interest in Sombr became so bizarre that he planned a few solo shows on his free evenings, including one in Amsterdam. And because a show had already been booked in Paradiso itself, the performance of Boose took place in the Tolhuistuin in Amsterdam-Noord. There is room for 600 fans.
The American teenager is not a big talker, but on stage he feels at home. He can hardly believe it himself that his star is rising so quickly.
Study classical music
In New York, where SOMBR grew up, he studied classical music at the La Guardia Highschool. “I learned breathing techniques for that when I sing.”
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As a 17-year-old in his own country, Boose broke through with the self-written number Caroline And decided to stop his studies. “It went so fast. Suddenly I had a job as a musician and I could do what I love to do,” says the Singersongwriter. “I drew with a record label, moved to Los Angeles and write all my songs there. The weather is better than in New York and LA is the music capital of the US. The chorus of Back to Friends Is the best thing I wrote so far. That number is closest to my heart. “
Intense texts
At that high school he also came up with his stage name Sombr. “I don’t know why I chose it anymore. I got out and he got stuck well. Maybe also because the name fits my music well, because my music is sad.” His personal texts are intense, go through marrow and bone and are about his love life a lot. His songs become in the United States Sad girl anthems named.
Sombr, or Shane Boose, during a performance in London © ANP / Rex by Shutterstock
He gets his inspiration from songwriter Jeff Buckley and the English rock band Radiohead. “My father has me the album OK computer Let Radiohead listen so often. Later I also discovered their other albums. It is music that I feel relaxed with. And Buckley, yes, that is one of the greatest songwriters who has ever lived. ”
First song
The first song that SOMBR wrote was Flowers Are Pretty. He was six years old. “Only my parents and my sister have ever heard that song. No, I will never release it. It was just bad, super -wearing.”
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But his songs got better and better over the years. “The enormous success I suddenly have is a strange sensation. I still have to get used to it.”
Rockstar
There are plenty of ambitions. In the American press, Boose announced that he has a rockstar Want to become. “That is my goal. I feel that there are not enough rock stars at the moment. I want to make rock ‘n’ roll and play in large halls.”