Cordelia’s moody single “Run with Me” was released late in 2018 and continues to log streams on Spotify. The recording is an ambient pop-folk that sets a vibe and draws you in like a magnet. Like many of her other recent songs, it looks at the world unflinchingly, unafraid to explore the darker nooks and crannies of teen life. She descends from progenitors like Joni Mitchell and Janis Ian, but she’s in no way a throw-back. Like them, she’s a deft finger-picker with a captivating voice, but she’s contemporary all the way through, putting her into the same current genres occupied by Billie Eilish and Lana Del Rey.
Cordelia was born in Sweden and transplanted to California as a child. She's been writing and performing her own songs since she was ten years old, when one of her songs was the national winner of the PTA’s Reflections Art Contest. More recently, in 2018, she was a contestant on American Idol.
Her EP Open Up to Me was released in 2015. And her single (and video) “Goodbye Song” came out in 2013. These songs are very different from what she’s doing today, but they document a progression through her teens that paved the way for her current weightier songs.
She’s performed at numerous venues around Southern California, including the San Diego House of Blues, the Long Beach Convention Center, December Nights (in Balboa Park), the San Diego County Fair, Genghis Cohen, and many other venues.
Cordelia comes from a musical family. Her older sister Cleopatra and her dad Darius are also singer-songwriters.
October (due out February 13th) is the latest single from Cordelia. Like 2018’s Run with Me, which continues to log streams, it’s moody and ambient pop-folk that sets a vibe and draws you in. The song chronicles an episode of depression while also perhaps hinting at a path out of it.