Léa Sen

Léa Sen’s name is one you might be familiar with as a featured vocalist. The French-Martiniquan artist moved to London aged 20, and it paid off: in 2021, her vocal on Joy Orbison’s Better was constantly on the radio, while her contributions to excellent records from Wu-Lu and Oscar Jerome were also remarkable. But on her own work, the 23-year-old’s output goes beyond that.

Sen, who grew up just outside Paris, is a multi-instrumentalist as well as vocalist – her parents gave her a guitar aged 15, and she taught herself to play via the internet. She wrote, produced, engineered and mixed her debut EPs: You of Now, Pt 1 and Pt2 on Partisan Records.

The follow up is her most recent dreamlike new single “Home Alone”, written with her brother Florian, and which she describes as being "about my worst flaw that is also my best quality—my ability to dream with no doubt".