KEHLI

Hailing from Dublin, 19-year old KEHLI is a vocalist and performer with a soulful, passionate and unique interpretation of contemporary pop music. She spent her early years at stage school, where from age 5, she studied music and dance including contemporary, hip hop and ballet.

Her evolving passion for music and performance encouraged a 14 year old KEHLI to try her hand on a couple of TV music shows (usual suspects The Voice/X Factor etc.) which at such a tender age, provided invaluable experience and gained her a small cult online following.

Since launching her first single mid 2019, KEHLI has had several career highlights including Spotify editorial support across each single (New Music Friday, New Pop UK, Hands in the Éire, Breath of fresh Éire, Pop Remixes etc), Editorial support from the likes of Apple Music Pop (New Music Daily), YouTube Music's Pop Fresh, Filtr UK New Music weekly and many other indie playlists.

Other highlights include Top 20 Irish charts feature, Track of the week on iRadio, FM104, Beat102-103, RTE 2Fm and Spin 1038 amassing over 14million impressions on national radio in Ireland last year alone. Support for her music also comes from across the pond with the likes of Kiss FM UK, BBC Radio 1 and BBC introducing. She also reached #3 and #4 in the UK commercial pop and club charts respectively (Music Week) on her first release. Tastemakers support over the past year has been from the likes of Hotpress, Nialler9, Clash Magazine, EarMilk, Euphoria, Wonderland, Irish Times, Record of the Day, Official Charts UK & IRL and other notable publications.

KEHLI is also the youngest member of the phenomenal 'Irish Women in Harmony 'group who have done tremendous work to help childline and related charities over the past year. KEHLI performed on the Late Late show with them for Ryan Turbidy in Dec 2020.

She is now completing work on her forthcoming debut EP, a collection of soulful pop infused, ear-catching tunes. Hopefully with the pandemic year behind, she looks forward to an exciting rest of the year for her project and for the music industry as a whole as it returns to form and the live scene opens up again to performances.

This year, Kehli has enjoyed listening to the music of some brilliant Irish artists making waves and would ask you to check out their music as well in support as they are her artist picks this year:
Luz. // Monjola // Aby Coulibaly