Liana Flores

About

Liana Flores (Brazilian Portuguese: [liˈɐnɐ ˈfloɾis]; born 2 June 1999) is a British-Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist. After independently releasing two extended plays The Water’s Fine! (2018) and Recently (2019), her debut studio album Flower of the Soul was released under Verve and Fiction in June 2024.

Flores was born to a Brazilian mother and a British father. She was raised in South Norfolk, England. In her youth, she listened to bossa nova artists such as Astrud Gilberto, Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso and João Gilberto.
Flores’s musical journey began in primary school, where singing in the school choir was part of the school curriculum. She began playing the piano in childhood and took up the guitar in her mid-teens. Flores notes that she began playing the guitar because she loved bossa nova and wanted to play the Bossa Nova songs she listened to. Despite being of Brazilian background, Flores notes that she did not grow up speaking Portuguese. As a result, she finds music as a way to connect with her Brazilian cultural background.
Flores developed an interest in 1960s folk music in her late teens. Both of these genres would later go on to inspire her own…