🎧 Approved: Charlotte Dos Santos

Oslo-raised, Berlin-based, with a Brazilian father and a Berklee degree, Charlotte Dos Santos draws on samba, bossa nova, jazz and neo-soul with the ease of someone who grew up with all of it. You can tell she relishes following her own creative intuition, which is why she’s had comparisons to Solange. Think Minnie Riperton’s range and delicacy applied to something more contemporary.

New single ‘Roses’ is a good place to start, richly textured lush, cinematic chamber soul, with a slightly psychedelic-jazz arrangement. There’s a striking confidence in her delivery throughout, rich, poised and luminous even at its most tender moments.

“It’s a song about a haunting love that still lingers”, she says, “a love that has frozen but isn’t forgotten, leaving only memories”. The production earns that description.

Four albums in and she still feels like a well-kept secret. That should probably change.

🎧 Listen to ‘Roses’ below.