Holly Riva

“The most talented female artist since Annie Lennox walked through my door.” – Bill Kimber, former Head of A&R at RCA UK (and Holly’s manager). At 22, British-Australian dark pop artist Holly Riva is emerging as a bold new voice in alt-pop and club music. Her sound fuses cinematic dark pop, electronic house, and alt-dance with emotionally charged storytelling and world music instrumentation. Her 2025 single ‘So Vanilla’ spent five weeks on the Music Week UK Commercial Pop Club Charts, earned BBC Introducing’s Artist of the Week, and cemented her as one to watch. Before that, ‘Feel It Comin’ spent three consecutive weeks in the UK Commercial Pop Club Top 10 and charted in the Australian ARIA Club Charts. Now she returns with ‘Chase Like an Animal’, a genre-blending collaboration with iconic Indian maestro Bickram Ghosh (George Harrison & Ravi Shankar collaborator), premiering live in Kolkata. Known for velvet vocals, hypnotic melodies, and cheeky storytelling, Holly’s music lives between the introspective edge of Billie Eilish and the sleek confidence of Dua Lipa.