Tei Shi – Valerie
Today, Canadian-Colombian singer-songwriter Tei Shi returns with her highly-anticipated eponymous new album Valerie out now via The Orchard.
The independent release arrives alongside her deeply personal and poignant new single and visual “Falling From Grace” produced by Tei Shi, Nick Hakim, Noah Beresin and Zooey Celeste.
Valerie arrives ahead of her North American The Valerie Tour Part One, which kicks off in Boston on May 1st, and spans across nine cities, including Toronto, New York, Vancouver, Chicago, and Los Angeles. It will wrap in Seattle on May 12th and will include support from Sean Nicholas Savage, Amira Jazeera, ZADA, Salt Cathedral, and Kaleah Lee on select dates.
Diligently tuning her craft as a singer-songwriter and producer, Valerie signals Tei Shi’s evolution throughout the years and brings her creativity to light – infusing a sonic palette of pop, R&B, bachata, tropicalia, and indie shoegaze with vulnerable storytelling and captivating bilingual lyricism. Tei Shi embraces her Latine heritage with a worldly edge. Her latest single, “Falling From Grace,” encapsulates all as she delves into her most personal and untold story yet.
Speaking on the single, Tei Shi shares, “Falling From Grace is probably my most personal song yet. It was inspired by a near-death experience I had in 2020 with an unexpected pregnancy which led to emergency surgery to save my life. The experience stayed with me and took me a long time to process, but it wasn’t until I sat down with Nick Hakim and Zooey Celeste a year later in Nick’s studio that I was able to put any words to it. The song came together like a sudden apparition once Nick and Zooey allowed me to share my experience and emotions with them and encouraged me to channel them into a song.
To me, this is a classic song about confronting one’s mortality at the same time as one’s ability to create, and ultimately it deals with the confusion and loss that often comes from that. I feel like it channels some of the duality of being in a woman’s body — the complexity and fragility our bodies often present to our own lives at the same time as their capacity to create life. Falling From Grace was produced by myself, Nick Hakim, Noah Beresin and Zooey Celeste, and sonically the song leans more into a shoegaze, indie rock sound, which I have always loved and incorporated into my albums throughout the years.”
THE VALERIE TOUR PART ONE DATES
5/1 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair #
5/2 – Toronto, ON @ TD Music Hall #
5/4 – New York, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg #
5/5 – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd #
5/6 – Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village $
5/8 – Vancouver, BC @ The Fox &
5/9 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent !!
5/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom !!
5/12 – Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s **
SUPPORT FROM:
# Sean Nicolas Savage
$ Amira Jazeera
& ZADA
!! Salt Cathedral
** Kaleah Lee
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