Tori Kelly Announces Debut Album Release!

Capitol Records recording artist Tori Kelly – hailed as an “Artist to Watch” by Rolling Stone, USA Today and SPIN – will release her debut album, Unbreakable Smile, on June 26. Max Martin (Katy Perry, P!nk, Taylor Swift) served as executive producer on Unbreakable Smile and featured artists include Ed Sheeran, LL Cool J and Daye Jack. Kelly revealed album art and release date exclusively during a YouTube Live Stream from NYC for her fans last night. She also released an official video for the album’s title track ‘Unbreakable Smile’ here.

‘Nobody Love,” the first single from Unbreakable Smile, is being played by more than 180 Pop radio stations. It’s in the Top 20 of Billboard’s Pop Songs chart and debuted in the NZ top 40 last week. The official video for ‘Nobody Love’, which can be seen HERE, has more than two million views. Kelly, who is currently the VEVO Lift artist, co-wrote the song with Rickard Göransson (Ariana Grande, Enrique Iglesias, Jessie J) and the album’s executive producer, Max Martin.

“Come for the exuberant, doo-woppy R&B groove and the 22-year-old’s starmaking vocal acrobatics,” urged US Weekly. “Tori Kelly's single ‘Nobody Love’ has got a bounce to it, blending Nineties R&B with pop-radio friendly EDM beats,” observed RollingStone.com. SPIN.com called her “sensational” and noted, “‘Nobody Love’ is a proper Frankenstein’s monster of Top-40 horns and hooks without ever sounding reductive, thanks to its singer’s jazz-minded, emotion-studded harmonizing.”

“Tori Kelly is a name you need to know. The singer, who’s amassed well over a million YouTube followers, is well on her way to becoming a pop icon,” noted SELF.com.
Born and raised in Temecula, California, Kelly got her start by making songs in her bedroom and posting them online. She first rose to attention when her cover of Frank Ocean’s ‘Thinkin Bout You,’ went viral, racking up over 22 million views. Over the past year and a half, Kelly has sold out shows in several major cities (including The Troubadour and The Roxy in Los Angeles, the Bowery Ballroom and Gramercy Theatre in New York City and Bush Hall in London), headlined a sold-out, nine-city U.S. run and supported Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith on tour.


TORI KELLY FACTS:

• Tori has over 1million Youtube Subscribers

• Over 200 million combined views on Youtube

• Tori already boast over 35,000 New Zealand fans on her official Facebook page –Making NZ her 5th largest territory and Auckland, New Zealand is her biggest city on Facebook

• ‘Nobody Love’ is produced by Grammy-Winning producer of the year Max Martin

• Has toured with Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran

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