On the haunting closing track of her debut album, Rina sings about her choice of pouring her personal pain into commercial pop songs. As a closure to a very personal and introspective album that deals mostly with family issues, “Snakeskin” stands as a grand finale into acceptance of your own personal history and reclaim of all personal issues as forms of strength, over a triumphant dancefloor-ready production that samples Beethoven’s “Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13” and interpolates Nobuo Uematsu’s Final Fantasy victory fanfare. "This has a Beethoven sample . It’s a song… read more
On the haunting closing track of her debut album, Rina sings about her choice of pouring her personal pain into commercial pop songs. As a closure to… read more
On the haunting closing track of her debut album, Rina sings about her choice of pouring her personal pain into commercial pop songs. As a closure to a very personal and introspective al… read more
Rina Sawayama (born 16 August 1990 in Niigata, Japan) is a Japanese-British London-based singer, songwriter, producer, model, and actress. Born and raised in Japan until moving to the UK at the age of 5, Rina would go on to study politics at Cambridge University. At university, she decided to pursue both modeling and her love for singing. She would go on to experiment in a hip hop group before deciding to pursue her interest in R&B and pop music. Rina began collaborating with London-based producer Hoost and released her debut single ’Sleeping In Waking’ in 2013. In 2016, she wa… read more
Rina Sawayama (born 16 August 1990 in Niigata, Japan) is a Japanese-British London-based singer, songwriter, producer, model, and actress. Born and raised in Japan until moving to the UK at… read more
Rina Sawayama (born 16 August 1990 in Niigata, Japan) is a Japanese-British London-based singer, songwriter, producer, model, and actress. Born and raised in Japan until moving to the UK at the age of 5, Rina would go on to study polit… read more