Her Name Is Lolo Zouaï
CLEO Singapore|March - April 2020
Music and passion is the fashion. Here, Lolo reflects on living a life of contrasts, a sound that’s rare in this world, and keeping it real in her work.
Lina Esa
Her Name Is Lolo Zouaï

We live in a time of flux. There’s the shiny sheen of curated lives made amazing on social media, and the harder-to-swallow drudgery of real life. Twenty-five-year-old singer and songwriter Lolo Zuoaï acknowledges this: seeing the highest of highs and living the fly life, tempered against the bittersweet lows. (Her sound meshes emotion with dance elements which make them “bittersweet bangers”. Apt.) Lolo keeps it real. “I am not going to lie on my songs, and I think I am not capable of not being myself, it ’s hard for me to put on a fake thing,” she shares.

Remember her name, because Lolo Zuoaï is the next big thing. Now based in Brooklyn, she is an amalgamation of different backgrounds—she was born in Paris and grew up in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Being French-Algerian, she’s multilingual and brings this rich mix to her music, which catapulted her to fame after being discovered as a teen recording songs in her bedroom. Take a listen of tunes like “Caffeine” and you’ll be instantly hooked. And thanks to the digital world we are in, some of Lolo’s biggest fans are in Asia , with Taiwan, Malaysia and Philippines being the top three Asian countries for audio streams. We dive right into her music, how she keeps it real and who the real Lolo is.

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