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Rina Sawayama

June 2023

  • Rina Sawayama and Matt Healy.

    ‘I’ve had enough’: pop star Rina Sawayama criticises comments by labelmate Matty Healy

    On stage at Glastonbury, Sawayama criticised the 1975 frontman over podcast appearance in which he joined in with mockery of rapper Ice Spice and referred to racially charged pornography

January 2023

  • Laura Snapes

    Brit awards: all-male best artist category reveals wider music industry sickness

    Laura Snapes
  • (L-R) Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers of Wet Leg, and Harry Styles.

    Brit awards 2023: Wet Leg and Harry Styles lead male-dominated nominations

September 2022

  • Rina Sawayama

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Rina Sawayama: Hold the Girl review – poetry, power and pure pop

    The British-Japanese star dials down the jarring fusion of her debut on a set of beautifully crafted out-and-out hits

July 2022

  • Rina Sawayama poses in a white dress

    Pop iconoclast Rina Sawayama: ‘Drag is turning trauma into entertainment. That’s what I’m doing’

    The British-Japanese pop star’s genre-mashing second album is the product of her hard-won self-knowledge. She talks about reckoning with her Asian identity, forgiving her mother and her determination to be happy

March 2022

  • Blood Incantation recording their album Timewave Zero.

    The Guide newsletter
    The Guide #24: how metal bands dared to go soft

    In this week’s newsletter: it’s a music genre that used to be all about doom and thrash – but in 2022 you’re lucky if there’s even a riff in the mix

November 2021

  • Rina Sawayama playing live at Manchester’s Albert Hall.

    Rina Sawayama review – superstar status cemented by pop’s politician

    Albert Hall, Manchester
    The British-Japanese singer finally performs the debut album she released during lockdown – and it’s a triumph of satire, chaotic genre-splicing and LGBTQ+ solidarity

September 2021

  • Guide

    Jonny Greenwood to Lena Dunham: a panel of stars on what cultural success means in 2021

    Screenwriters, musicians and comedians reflect on what creative contentment means to them

March 2021

  • Ivor Novello Awards 2020<br>Undated handout photo issued by The Ivors Academy with Apple Music showing artist Griff, a nominee for the new Rising Star Ivor Novello Award. PA Photo. Issue date: Monday July 6, 2020. The new award honours young British and Irish songwriters and composers who demonstrate exceptional potential and ambition. See PA story SHOWBIZ Ivors. Photo credit should read: The Ivors Academy with Apple Music/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Brit awards: Griff wins 2021 Rising Star award

  • Rising stars ... (l-r) Rina Sawayama, Griff and Pa Salieu.

    Griff, Pa Salieu and Rina Sawayama nominated for Brits Rising Star

February 2021

  • Rina Sawayama

    Non-British citizens now eligible for Brit awards and Mercury prize

    Artists who have been permanently resident in the UK for five years will qualify for British categories

December 2020

  • Fiona Apple

    Best music of 2020
    The 50 best albums of 2020: the full list

  • The music that hit big in 2020 suggested an audience keen to retreat from the present.

    Pop in 2020: an escape into disco, folklore and nostalgia

  • Rina Sawayama.

    Best music of 2020
    The 50 best albums of 2020, No 3: Rina Sawayama – Sawayama

  • (Clockwise from top left) Moses Sumney, Phoebe Bridgers, Declan McKenna, Lianne La Havas, Rina Sawayama and Danielle Haim.

    'Oh cool, I don’t have to put on pants!' Stars on music's year of chaos

November 2020

  • Transcendence … Romy, Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga, and Perfume Genius.

    Best music of 2020
    The 20 best songs of 2020

    Our writers considered hundreds of contenders – and here are their picks of the year. Listen to all 390 tracks they voted for on our playlist

August 2020

  • Rosalía, Angèle and Bad Bunny.

    The music essay
    Will the UK ever love foreign-language pop?

    Three summers ago, Despacito’s lilting Spanish lyrics dominated the UK charts, but since then nearly all pop hits have been in English. Is it just a language barrier – or a sign of a narrow culture?

July 2020

  • Rina Sawayama

    British-Japanese pop star Rina Sawayama 'ineligible' for Mercury prize

    ‘The arts shouldn’t create their own border control’ says singer who has indefinite leave to remain but no UK passport

May 2020

  • Clockwise from bottom left: BC Camplight, Fiona Apple, Jay Electronica, Carla Bley, KeiyaA

    The best albums of 2020 so far

    There’s shaken-up pop from Rina Sawayama, searching rap by J Hus and Jay Electronica, and invention everywhere from KeiyaA’s soul to Beatrice Dillon’s electronics

April 2020

  • ‘I quite like being at home, which is probably an unpopular opinion’ ... Rina Sawayama.

    Lockdown listening
    Rina Sawayama's lockdown listening: 'I'm fermenting stuff and playing Animal Crossing'

    In between video games and bouts of her own new record, the British-Japanese pop star has been delving into Allie X, Halsey and Alanis Morissette
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