Drew Sycamore

artist bio

Drew Sycamore´s new single “45 Fahrenheit Girl” is a song about a vampire love story. It is about a woman who meets and falls in love with a vampire and begs him to kill her, so they can live together forever. Of course. “45 Fahrenheit Girl” is the 3rd single that will lead up to the album “Sycamore” to be released on may 28th. The 2 previous singles “Take It Back” and “I Wanna be Dancing” went both straight to # 1 on The official Danish Radio Chart !! Over 3 days and 7 locations Drew and crew shot a musicvideo for the single in january. The video is an interpretation of the theme and a scripted story, a little different from the lyrics, but nevertheless very entertaining with classical vampire movie references. Drew is an avid fan of the Twilight books, so a song about vampires and making her own vampire film, came very natural to her. The title of the new single refers to the temperature for the vampire which is 7 degree celcius = 45 fahrenheit ! Drew Sycamore is half Welsh/half Danish, brought up in the countryside of Denmark outside the small city of Hobro. Living in the Danish countryside with stories from Wales and London, which was a big part of her mothers and grandmothers life, made it a matter of time before Drew herself ventured to Great Britain. For her it was the place synonymous with her dreams of becoming a performer, and a nostalgic feeling of being home wherever she was when she sat foot on the isle. She had to experience the place she knew so well from the stories her mother had told her. ‘One of my favourite stories is of my grandmother allegedly going out on a date with Mick Jagger in Cambridge one night. I love that story. She was great fun and still is a great inspiration in my life’. But that was not where Drew Sycamore’s rockstar aspirations came from. She began her musical career as a part of DREWXHILL which was a duo she formed with German native Philipp Hill. DREWXHILL was rooted in electronic productions around Drew’s voice. They were remixed by the likes of Alan Fitzpatrick and Groove Armada amongst others and counted fans such as Pete Tong, Skrillex and Jamie XX. Drew lived in Britain for 6 years before making the move back to Denmark in 2015. In 2014 Drew lost her mother to cancer experiencing a soulshattering rebirth in the aftermath. Music was nowhere in the darkness albeit a knew path in life felt as if it was forming. She knew she had to leave it all behind and start again, because she was on her own now. All she had learnt and everyone she had met on her way had formed her and taught her something, and the electronic music scene was deeply rooted in her DNA. But as a singer and as a writer she needed to use her voice and she needed to do it alone. The move back to the small country of Denmark brought Drew to Copenhagen, where she started building the foundation of her solo career. Drew wrote lots of songs in London, but was now channeling all that energy towards herself and her songs. Drew also wrote with others as she met the artist community in Copenhagen. She has written songs with Medina, local chart topper Gulddreng, Düne, FRENSHIP and many more.. She played support for danish artists Alex Vargas and Düne, and her solocareer was launched. She signed with Warner Music and her first album “Brutal” was released in october 2019. There is a certain calm to Drew Sycamore,… the calm aura that people who are comfortable with. She knows what she wants, is very focused, and has learnt to trust in her songs, herself and people around her. Drew seeks to find her own limits. ‘I follow the mantra of David Bowie. He said, that you need to be just far enough out into the water that you can’t reach the bottom. That’s where everything gets really interesting’ , she says. Her visual expression and performance seeks to bend the ideas of gender performance and gives another dimension to female pop sexuality. ‘I’m a woman and my sexuality is infinitely powerful and fierce. My gender is not for anyone else to define. Who I am is how I feel inside and that is a changing ocean. I change with it and I seek always to be comfortable in my own skin. I think my biggest job is to make others feel that way too.’ Her feminine masculine play with dance and performance expression follows the ever expanding redefining club of legends before, who each played their own part in carving out a new place in the gender performance spectrum. ‘I never felt like the prom queen, and I never really fit the profile of the leading hot girl. I was always uncomfortable playing that role. But I wanna make my own version of the prom Queen who’ll probably eat the King and most likely break her crown on the dance floor’ 2020 turned out the become the year of many firsts. For Drew Sycamore it has been the year of being #1 on the danish radio charts. In the late spring of 2020 Drew gathered her close knit team of collaborators (producer twins Frederik and Fridolin Nordsø and writer, Lasse Boman), whom of all helped her finish and close her Brutal album in 2019. The creative space they formed together is one of total surrender and extreme ambition to seek the limits of their abilities and pushing the boundaries of nostalgia, in the genre of pop. Over the course of four weeks the team wrote and recorded most of the upcoming album, from where the first three singles “Take It Back”, “I Wanna Be Dancing” and the current single “45 Fahrenheit Girl”, have already seen the light of day. ‘Take it Back’ was the soundtrack of the summer of 2020 and the follow up, ‘I Wanna Be Dancing’, went directly into the top of the charts and stayed put for 16 weeks and still recides at #1 upon the release of the current single whilst popping into top 40 on Spotify. Last year Drew Sycamore were nominated in 2 categories at the Danish Music Awards as Best New Act and Best New Live Act, and it is expected that this year will be her breakthrough. A major tour in the fall will be announced very soon.