Singer/songwriter

Metropolis: Carman, Manitoba

Nation of Origin: Morocco

Named one in every of Selection’s “Artists to Look ahead to the 2022 Grammys,” Vogue’s “Style Stars Set to Make 2022 Thrilling,” PEOPLE’s “Gifted Rising Artists Making Their Mark on the Musical Panorama,” and Leisure Weekly’s “Artists to Watch in 2022,” Faouzia not too long ago shared “RIP, Love (Acoustic Reside),” a stripped-bare new model of her worldwide hit single, “RIP, Love,” out there now in any respect DSPs and streaming providers. Impressed by the Moroccan and Arabic music of Faouzia’s childhood, the unique model of “RIP, Love” has confirmed a very common sensation, incomes over 107M worldwide streams since its launch earlier this 12 months. Produced by T.I Jakke (Ava Max, Woman Gaga, RedOne) with extra manufacturing by Tor Eimon and co-written by T.I Jakke, Fransisca Corridor (Lauren Spencer-Smith, Think about Dragons, Illenium), and Faouzia, the monitor is joined by an official lyric video presently boasting over 48Mviews through YouTube. As well as, an official “RIP, Love” dance video has earned greater than 5M views.

“RIP, Love” is among the many many highpoints discovered on Faouzia’s acclaimed debut venture, CITIZENS, out there for streaming and obtain. The eight-song assortment – which has been featured in over 1.8M TikTok creates, amassing greater than 4B complete views throughout the platform – additionally consists of such worldwide favorite as “Puppet,” “Anyone Else,” “Thick and Skinny,” and Faouzia & John Legend’s smash “Minefields,” the latter of which is accompanied by an official music video that has already earned over 132M views through YouTube.

CITIZENS has been met by wide-ranging applause from media shops together with Ones To Watch, which declared it “a crystallization of all the pieces (Faouzia’s) labored towards…Over the course of eight shifting tracks, the longer term star carves out a formidable emotional depth, largely carried by jaw-dropping vocal feats.” Faouzia is “the pop star of the longer term,” raved Consequence in an unique Monitor By Monitor characteristic interview, including, “CITIZENS looks as if it may very well be the primary grand whats up of an artist primed to make a splash within the 2020.”

With over 1.1B world streams so far, Faouzia has a mixed social attain of over 11M followers. Boasting over 2M YouTube subscribers, 2M Instagram followers and greater than 3.4M Tik Tok followers, Faouzia has cemented herself as a surefire artist to observe. With collaborations with John Legend, Kelly Clarkson, David Guetta, and extra, the landmark star has been praised in world publications spanning VOGUE, Harper’s Bazaar, PEOPLE, ELLE, Rolling Stone, Genius, Seventeen, Billboard, and Uproxx, to call however a number of.

“My favorite factor is listening to that one in every of my songs helped somebody really feel motivated or empowered, and even helped them to have a great cry – which typically is all you want,” Faouzia says. “I actually imagine that immersing your self in music can assist you thru the robust instances in life, and I at all times hope that my songs can do this for everybody.”

Faouzia Ouihya was born in Casablanca, Morocco on July 5, 2000. A few 12 months after being born, her household moved to Canada the place they ended up settling in a small rural city, Carman. It was then that she began taking piano classes on the age of 5. Her dad and mom made certain to instill Moroccan traditions in her upbringing by educating her Arabic, enjoying conventional music, and carrying conventional clothes for particular events. These traditions encourage her craft as a musical artist in the present day as she implements trills and Moroccan sounds in her songs.