Rumer

Born Sarah Joyce in 1979 at the Tarbela Dam in Pakistan and raised in England, notably in Carlisle, Rumer has established herself in a style where orchestral pop, hushed soul and easy listening intersect. Her melodic writing focuses on subtlety, and her arrangements often draw on the traditions of British and American songwriting. Before her solo career she sang in the early 2000s with the London band La Honda and later pursued projects such as Rumer & The Denials and Stereo Venus. Her career under the name Rumer reached another level with Seasons of My Soul in 2010, followed the same year by the EP Rumer Sings Bacharach at Christmas. She followed with Boys Don’t Cry in 2012, an album of covers of songs written or popularized by male songwriters of the 1970s and 1980s, and with Into Colour in 2014, where her music opened up toward more sophisticated pop with disco touches. Rumer then engaged in an explicit dialogue with the classic adult-pop repertoire on This Girl’s in Love (A Bacharach & David Songbook) in 2016, produced with Rob Shirakbari, after several artistic exchanges with Burt Bacharach. In 2020 Rumer devoted Nashville Tears (The Songs of Hugh Prestwood) to the songwriting of American writer Hugh Prestwood.