Sofi de la Torre

Self-made Canarian singer/songwriter Sofi de la Torre combines R&B and chillwave elements with big, floor-filling pop hooks to create a style she somewhat immodestly dubs "pop done right." Born on March 16, 1991 and brought up in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands -- an autonomous community of Spain, but much closer geographically and culturally to Northwest Africa -- she discovered her talent at age 14, when her school music teacher was impressed with a song she wrote as a homework assignment and lent her a keyboard to take home. She taught herself to play and continued to writ...