Olivia Dean announces she will be joining Griff on her day of the girl show in partnership with War Child at Lafayette next Friday.
The show is brought to fans by War Child and supported by Youtube music, it will be a celebration of young women in music as well as raising awareness of the challenges that young women and girls face around the world.
The tickets for the event are no longer available to buy however there is a chance to win tickets on the War Child’s website. A £5 donation via the war child site will enter fans into a draw to win tickets for the event.
The winner of the rising star awards at the 2021 brit awards will be headline this special night. She is the 3rd youngest recipient of the Brits rising star award sitting in a very respectable company with the only recipients who were younger than her being 19-year-old adele 2008 and Jorja smith aged 20 winning in 2018. The 20-year-old brit from kings langley in Hertfordshire will headline the show as a sign of the impressive young women in music.
The young singer released her debut project One foot in front of the other, a title that suggested the songstresses naivety and youthfulness in the music industry. The 7 track project was released at the end of June and peaked at number 4 in the official charts and currently sits on just over 72 million Spotify streams.
Similarly to Griff, Olivia Dean is another young British star at only 22 years of age. She was named Amazon music 2021 breakthrough artist of the year, releasing a 4 track project What am I gonna do on Sunday at the end of 2020 and a 5 track project Growth in July this year.
The 22-year-old is another act that celebrates the youthful women making an impact in the UK music industry and her and Griff alongside each other will be the perfect duo for the show titled ‘Day of the Girl’.
War child’s events celebrating women in the music industry as well as raising awareness for the challenges young women and girls are facing around the world doesn’t end with their show at Lafayette on the 8th of October. They will also be holding a Day of the girl industry day at abbey road studios on the 11th of October with Griff as the keynote speaker as they look at advocating equality of gender representation and access to the music industry, along with panel discussions hosted by Abbey Road Studios, Shesaid.so and the Music Managers Forum (MMF).
More information on these events and tickets are all available on the war Child’s website and can be found here.
