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Specializing in hooky pop tunes where the rhythms are as effervescent as the melodies,
Josie Dunne is a singer/songwriter with a soulful bent. Her bright, fashionable style arrived in full flower on her 2018 debut single, "Old School," then she refined this sound with a succession of upbeat singles over the next year, including streaming hits like "Ooh La La" and the
Matoma collaboration "Sunday Morning." Most of these were gathered on
Late/Teen Early Twenties, a 2020 EP that hinted at the ambition
Dunne would display on her next project, Tennis, a full album initially released as a series of singles in 2021 and 2022.
A native of La Grange, Illinois,
Dunne began performing when she was in middle school. During high school, she performed regularly at bars and restaurants throughout the Chicago area. She signed with Warner/Chappell publishing in 2014, splitting her time between schools and songwriting sojourns to Nashville. A few years later, she relocated to Nashville and sealed a deal with Atlantic, which released her single "Old School" in early 2018. The EP
To Be the Little Fish followed later that year.
Dunne also teamed up with Norwegian producer
Matoma for the rousing dance/soul track "Sunday Morning," which became a streaming hit and widened her audience significantly. Throughout 2019,
Dunne issued a steady stream of singles, finding success with songs like "Same" and "Ooh La La," both of which were later rolled into
Late Teens/Early Twenties...Stay the Way I Left You, an EP that featured "Stay the Way I Left You," her duet with
Dahl.
After releasing "Holidays" at the end of 2020 -- a seasonal single swiftly followed by "Last Day," a collaborative single with
Two Friends --
Dunne went indie in 2021, embarking on the ambitious Tennis project. Over the course of several months of 2021 and 2022,
Dunne unveiled Tennis a song at a time -- she labeled these installments "Episodes" -- occasionally gathering the previously released songs as EPs. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine