It was only last week that ambitious young Derby pop martyr Alessi Rose achieved another milestone on her road to becoming the first true star from our city. By June 2023, she had released her first single, “Say Ur Mine,” which quickly went viral. Since then, she’s been wowing audiences all over the UK and beyond. Now, she’s off on tour with mega pop icons Dua Lipa and Tate McRae. The now 19-year-old artist calls the whole experience “so crazy and stupid.”
Bradford-born Alessi Rose began her musical journey in a converted bedroom-come-recording-studio in Littleover. Today, she quickly finds herself in the greenroom—and on the stage—alongside such acclaimed artists because she’s already wowed local crowds. She debuted it live onstage at Derbyshire’s Ynot? festival, the performance setting her career on the path to stardom.
She’ll be touring the UK, Europe and US in the coming months. Though one of her biggest journeys yet, it’s just the start of a career that’s more than started to blossom. Even with everything happening quickly, Alessi Rose is more thrilled than afraid when it comes to performing in larger spaces.
I’m pretty confident moving from the intimate clubs into the larger sized arenas and stadiums,” she said.
Though she hasn’t had the chance to meet Dua Lipa in real life, they’ve already spoken on Instagram direct messages to each other. Homegrown artist Alessi Rose said she’s been a fan of Dua Lipa. She continued, “I haven’t met her in person yet, but we’ve had conversations over Instagram and she sounds like a joy and an amazing artist.
Alessi Rose can hardly contain her excitement as she prepares to share the stage with both Lipa and Tate McRae. She continues, “I’ve looked up to both of their music and their careers as people for so long. She sends a big thank you to Tate McRae for having her on this tour. I was just obsessed with Tate McRae, and I’m just so thankful for her to have me,” she adds. It’s an insane tour all across America. I honestly can’t believe that’s a true sentence coming from my mouth.
The whirlwind of her career has left Alessi feeling both amazed and grateful. She said it’s remarkable how much has changed in such a brief period. She can’t wait to see all that’s to come in the next few years! She was amazed by how fast she’d shot up. It’s just so crazy that I put out my first song two years ago and now I’m going on tour in these massive arenas all around the world!
She began making music on a 15-year-old MacBook with an old keyboard. Today, she’s wowing audiences before thousands while opening for Dua Lipa on her current tour, a testament to her amazing perseverance against all odds. I clearly recall sitting in my bedroom back home in Littleover, as she recounted. I had, like, the strangest music rig over there, and I was just making my own tracks.
Between the whirlwind of their current tour schedule, Alessi Rose and her band are reminding themselves to find gratitude, joy, and appreciation in simple things. On the road together, they bond over games of pickleball and meals of pasta. On that day, she continued, “The band and I are going downstairs for some pasta, though we’ve acquired a pickleball addiction!
It’s pickleball tomorrow and pasta tonight, that’s the real glam life on tour with @dualipa,” she laughede
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