Arlo Parks

Arlo Parks is an English singer and songwriter, born Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho in 2000 and raised in Hammersmith, West London. She began uploading demos to BBC Music Introducing in 2018, released the single "Cola" that November and signed to Transgressive Records. Her debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, arrived in January 2021, peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart and won that year's Mercury Prize for Album of the Year; she also took the Breakthrough Artist Award at the 2021 Brit Awards. A second record, My Soft Machine, followed in 2023, alongside her poetry book The Magic Border, and she has opened for Harry Styles, Billie Eilish and Clairo. Parks names Elliott Smith, Radiohead and Joni Mitchell among her influences; a third album, Ambiguous Desire, was announced in January 2026 for release that April.