![]() ![]() Remembering how much she loved performing, she joined a band, ‘Los Hedonistas’ “It was just a real nice space away from London. It was there that she rediscovered her love of music. Her longest trip of all came when she decided to move to Mexico. (She took the name from a tea named Green Tea Seng, which she encountered on her trip to Peru.) This is when she started her Greentea Peng Tumblr page, with dreams of becoming a travel journalist, documenting her trips with words and photography. There was something quite romantic about it.” During this time, she saved as much money as she could for travelling, and took herself on long trips to California and Peru. “The whole area was proper taking off, before it was as trendy as it is. “It was a fucking cool time,” she remembers warmly. I just wanted to smoke weed and be miserable – because I was feeling miserable,” Aria moved back to London and started working different jobs, eventually settling behind the bar at the now infamous Visions in Dalston. “I loved being on stage – any kind of community events, I was always in the church choir,” she remembers of her early childhood in London.Īfter a period where she withdrew from the music, and began “partying instead… It was a period of life where I just kind of wanted to sink into the background. Growing up as a punk fan in a house with a theatrical dad (he played the Artful Dodger in Oliver! as a child), she remembers always being surrounded by music, and beginning to write her own songs as a 12-year-old. At the age of five, she loved to belt out The Fugees’ Killing Me Softly. Before she set the internet alight with the standalone single Downers in a quietly assured Colors set in June 2019 and her second EP, RISING, she first turned heads with the Sensi EP the year before.Īria can scarcely remember a time before singing. Her deep, unbothered vocal and smoked-out beats create a fusion that’s unlike anything else in British R&B right now, channelling the angelic sonics and storytelling power of her major influences Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, and Jill Scott, with a distinctive, don’t-fuck-with-me edge. Greentea Peng is the alter ego of Aria Wells, the 25-year-old R&B singer from South London, via Hastings. Her futuristic soul songs are introspective and self-explanatory, offering soul-soothing mantras for the introverted. Downbeat and drizzled in honey, it’s a lo-fi R&B track about losing yourself in depressants – but those words also depict the world that Greentea has built for herself. Londoner Greentea Peng sings in her sage-infused vocal on her viral hit “Downers”. ![]()
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