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Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho Profile
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho known professionally as Arlo Parks is a British singer and songwriter. Her debut studio album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, was released in 2021 to critical acclaim and peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart. It earned her nominations for Album of the Year, Best New Artist, and Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2021 Brit Awards.
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho Age
Parks is 23 years old as of 2023, she was born on 9th August 2000 in Hammersmith, West London. Furthermore, she celebrates her birthday on the 9th of August every year.
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 123 lbs (56kg).
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho Family
Marinho was raised in Hammersmith, West London. She is of half Nigerian, quarter Chadian and quarter French ancestry. Her mother was born in Paris, Marinho learned to speak French before she learned English.
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho Bisexual
Marinho is openly bisexual. She has dated fellow singer and rapper Ashton Nicole Casey, known professionally as Ashnikko, who is an American singer, rapper, and songwriter. She rose to prominence with her 2019 single “Stupid” with Baby Tate, which gained viral popularity on the video-sharing platform TikTok and was certified gold in the United States and Canada.
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho Super Sad Generation
Parks chose her stage name as a distinctive personal pseudonym, inspired by King Krule and Frank Ocean. In 2018, she began uploading demos to BBC Music Introducing. This caught the attention of radio presenters across the UK who distributed these demos to Ali Raymond of Beatnik Creative, who soon began managing Parks. She made her solo debut when she released the song “Cola” through Beatnik Records in November 2018 and announced the release of her debut EP, Super Sad Generation.
She told Line of Best Fit that the song is “a reminder that betrayal is inevitable when it comes to pretty people that think flowers fix everything.” Olivia Swash wrote that the vocals on the song “flourish thanks to [Parks’] creative writing background, with her delicate tone taking center stage against the gently plodding guitars and the soft crackle of vinyl.” By November 2019, the song had amassed over three million streams on Spotify.
Following the release of “Cola”, Parks signed with Transgressive Records. She released the title track of her upcoming EP, Super Sad Generation, in January 2019. Robin Murray told Clash that the song portrays an “astute, nuanced creative control that also utilizes word-play that speaks of youthful emotions spinning out of control.” Her third single, “Romantic Garbage”, was released in March 2019, before the release of the full four-track EP, Super Sad Generation in early April 2019. The EP was recorded in her home in South West London and an Airbnb in the Angel district of London with producer and co-writer Gianluca Buccellati.
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho Collapsed in Sunbeams
Parks embarked on her first headlining tour of Europe in February and March 2020, but could not complete it due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2020, Parks released the singles “Eugene” and “Black Dog”, which were well received during the COVID-19 lockdown, the latter of which became BBC Radio 1’s Tune of the Week. Parks made the front cover of NME in late July 2020. She won the AIM Independent Music Award for One to Watch 2020 in August 2020, after losing the same award to Georgia a year before.
Parks and Moses Boyd made the front cover of Music Week for the publication’s indie takeover special following the AIM Awards ceremony. Parks released her debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, on 29 January 2021. On 12 February 2021, Parks was the music act on The Graham Norton Show singing ‘Caroline’. Moreover, on 19 February 2021, Parks was the main guest of Jools Holland on his BBC program Later… On 11 May, Parks won the Breakthrough Artist Award at the 2021 Brit Awards.
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho Album of the Year
On 9 September, the album Collapsed in Sunbeams won the Hyundai Mercury Prize for Album of the Year. Presenting the award, judge Annie MacManus said: “We chose an artist with a singular voice who uses lyrics of remarkable beauty … and connects deeply with her generation as she does so”. Following her Collapsed in Sunbeams tour, Parks has performed as the 2022 opening act for Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, and Clairo.
On 25 June 2022, Parks performed a 53-minute set on The Park Stage at Glastonbury Festival 2022, before joining Phoebe Bridgers later in the day to perform “Graceland Too”. During Glastonbury, Parks was selected as a guest for the CBeebies Bedtime Story, reading Once Upon a Rhythm by James Carter. In September 2022, she canceled her tour dates in the United States, citing mental health concerns.
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho Net Worth
Marinho has an estimated annual Networth of $ 3 million to $5 million earned from her career as a singer and songwriter.
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho Social Media Platforms
Marinho is very active on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. She has 43.7k followers on Twitter, 563k followers on Instagram, and 37k followers on Facebook.
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