Toni Cornell, the 20-year-old daughter of late SOUNDGARDEN and AUDIOSLAVE singer Chris Cornell, has shared a new single, ‘Campari’.
A young singer-songwriter with a hypnotic voice and a sharp pen, Toni Cornell‘s rise to stardom is both long-awaited and inevitable.
Having begun as a poet, Cornell‘s strength lies in her storytelling, which is made all the more visceral by her outstanding, next level voice.
Her debut song ‘Far Away Places’, a 2019 track that she penned at just twelve years old, became the basis for an award-winning short film of the same name. Since then, she’s garnered online attention for her series of vocally stunning covers–including ‘God Only Knows’ by THE BEACH BOYS, ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ by Prince, which she performed on ‘The Tonight Show’ and ‘The Late Late Show’, and PEARL JAM‘s ‘Black’, recorded for 2020’s virtual Lollapalooza.
Last year, Cornell quietly started releasing music: ‘Sunset Of Your Love’, her first original song in five years, followed by ‘Little Bitch’. Now a sophomore at NYU, she steps into the world of contemporary bedroom pop with an edge, her new sound incorporates vibrant synths and guitars with the same ethereal vocals and candid lyrics she has honed since her childhood.
Seven years ago, Toni shared a recording of her and her late father covering ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ to mark Father’s Day.
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