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flowerovlove
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This year, flowerovlove is the budding pop star set for a full bloom.
The 19-year-old has been one-to-watch in both the music and fashion worlds for a few years now. As a model, she’s walked in Paris Fashion Week and been the face for brands such as Gucci and Miason Kitsuné. Her independently released debut EP,
2022’s A Mosh Pit In The Clouds, caught the attention of publications like i-D and Nylon as well as BBC Radio 1, who named her Future Artist of the Month. In June 2024, she made her Glastonbury debut.
Born Joyce Cisse, flowerovlove lived in Essex until she was 10 years old. She was an
active, “sassy” child who struggled to feel a sense of belonging as a young black girl in a largely white community. She instead found herself connecting to the music that she was obsessed with at the time, like Justin Bieber and One Direction. Watching Bieber’s Never Say Never and One Direction’s X-Factor auditions helped Cisse feel like anything was possible while listening to the singers’ stories of “going from nothing to something.”
“My dreams just felt so aligned when I watched Never Say Never,” she says about the Bieber doc specifically. “I still feel exactly the same to this day to when I first watched it. That’s my first memory of loving music and the idea of being an artist”
After her family relocated to London, the star’s started to come into her own identity
amidst the diverse chaos of the city. “I began to understand myself, who I am and what I want to be,” she explains.
Cisse rarely performed publicly as a child, first taking the stage as a teenager in a
school production of The Lion King where she played Nala. She sang mostly in her
room or with her family. Her brother Wilfred Cisse was not only encouraging of her
talent but a major catalyst for her pursuing it full-time. The pair saw the type of musical bond Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas have had, so they started writing songs together for her to release. While they stopped writing music together, Wilfred now serves as his little sister’s creative director.
More than anything, flowerovlove is prepared to step into her next era with more power and confidence than ever before. “I’m being more open and expressive now,” she says. “I’m not overthinking the little things or how I’m perceived.”
ExpandThe 19-year-old has been one-to-watch in both the music and fashion worlds for a few years now. As a model, she’s walked in Paris Fashion Week and been the face for brands such as Gucci and Miason Kitsuné. Her independently released debut EP,
2022’s A Mosh Pit In The Clouds, caught the attention of publications like i-D and Nylon as well as BBC Radio 1, who named her Future Artist of the Month. In June 2024, she made her Glastonbury debut.
Born Joyce Cisse, flowerovlove lived in Essex until she was 10 years old. She was an
active, “sassy” child who struggled to feel a sense of belonging as a young black girl in a largely white community. She instead found herself connecting to the music that she was obsessed with at the time, like Justin Bieber and One Direction. Watching Bieber’s Never Say Never and One Direction’s X-Factor auditions helped Cisse feel like anything was possible while listening to the singers’ stories of “going from nothing to something.”
“My dreams just felt so aligned when I watched Never Say Never,” she says about the Bieber doc specifically. “I still feel exactly the same to this day to when I first watched it. That’s my first memory of loving music and the idea of being an artist”
After her family relocated to London, the star’s started to come into her own identity
amidst the diverse chaos of the city. “I began to understand myself, who I am and what I want to be,” she explains.
Cisse rarely performed publicly as a child, first taking the stage as a teenager in a
school production of The Lion King where she played Nala. She sang mostly in her
room or with her family. Her brother Wilfred Cisse was not only encouraging of her
talent but a major catalyst for her pursuing it full-time. The pair saw the type of musical bond Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas have had, so they started writing songs together for her to release. While they stopped writing music together, Wilfred now serves as his little sister’s creative director.
More than anything, flowerovlove is prepared to step into her next era with more power and confidence than ever before. “I’m being more open and expressive now,” she says. “I’m not overthinking the little things or how I’m perceived.”