Grentperez — live event
21-year-old Australian musician grentperez is unapologetically a Gen-Z artist with an old soul. Having first found his audience on YouTube strumming guitar, singing covers and original songs, he is an untrained, yet intuitive musician who has figured out bossa nova rhythms, jazzy chord progressions and classic songwriting which he fuses with modern R&B and bedroom pop in his own unique style. He’s an unlikely star — unassuming and unpretentious, like someone raised on pop karaoke, Getz / Gilberto and Mac DeMarco’s 2 — but it’s all those disparate factors that make grentperez such a captivating presence. grentperez’s initiation into the world of music was the definition of informal. He soaked up sounds not in strict lessons but at family karaoke parties (“Filipino people love karaoke,” he explains with a laugh, “There are some uncles out there with hidden-ass talent”) as well as the YouTube endeavors of his older brother and sister, who he credits as his biggest musical influences and cheerleaders. It’s this unorthodox swirl of influences that makes grentperez’s breezy, lithe pop songs feel full of life — who needs to practice their scales when your parents’ records collection and an assortment of impassioned karaoke performances of Dionne Warwick, The Carpenters, and the Bee Gees have created such a rich and unpredictable universe of sounds to build upon?
Starts: 2023-11-01T20:00:38Z
Ends: 2023-11-01T22:00:38Z
Where: 125 East 11th Street, New York, New York 10003, United States
Price: $40.62