Rachel Chinouriri is one of Britain’s brightest breakout stars. With the release of her 2024 debut album What A Devastating Turn Of Events she cemented her reputation as one of the UK’s most accomplished young songwriters, crafting one of the most unique indie pop records in recent years. What A Devastating Turn Of Events landed in the Top 20 of the UK Official Charts and led to Rachel securing two BRIT Award nominations (Artist Of The Year and Best New Artist), following previous Ivor Novello, Rolling Stone UK and BBC Sound Of nominations.
2025 has seen Rachel continuing to ascend with a prominent support slot on Sabrina Carpenter’s UK and Europe arena tour, selling out and upgrading her debut US headline tour, and playing her first headline show in Brazil. She drew adoring crowds at Glastonbury and All Things Go festivals, made her debut US TV appearance on The Today Show and features on the line up for iHeart Radio’s Jingle Ball this winter. Her new EP Little House marked an expansion of her artistic vision and features the singles ‘Can We Talk About Isaac?’ and ‘23:42’. Elsewhere she featured this year on ‘Romeo’ as part of PinkPantheress’ Fancy Some More mixtape, and on Rizzle Kicks’ summer single ‘Follow Excitement!’.
With her fiercely loyal fanbase the ‘Darlings’ behind her, Chinouriri has clocked up over 425 million global streams to date. She has been praised by the likes of British Vogue (“Chinouriri is leading the indie pop renaissance”), The Observer ("brimming with fresh ideas"), NME (“consistently charming”), GQ (“Chinouriri is set to dominate”), BBC Radio 1, Later… With Jools Holland, been supported by Spotify’s RADAR programme and more. Elsewhere, she’s received recognition and support from the likes of Adele, Lewis Capaldi, Sam Fender and Florence Pugh, who starred in the video for Rachel’s single ‘Never Need Me’.