Name Mackenzie Scott Birth name Mackenzie Scott Years active 2012–present | Labels Partisan Records | |
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Born January 23, 1991 (age 33) Georgia, United States ( 1991-01-23 ) Origin Nashville, Tennessee, United States Genres indie, rock, alt rock, folk Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter, musician, artist Role Singer · torrestorrestorres.com Profiles | ||
Torres sprinter album 2015
Mackenzie Scott (born January 23, 1991) is an independent American singer, songwriter, musician and artist who performs under the musical pseudonym Torres (stylized as TORRES).
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Interview with torres
Biography
Mackenzie Scott was born on January 23rd, 1991 in Orlando, Florida. Adopted at birth, Mackenzie does not remember life in florida. From the age of 3, she was raised in Macon, Georgia and considers Macon home. Brought up in a conservative Christian family, Scott was the youngest of 3 children. Her home was not a musical household, but at an early age, Mackenzie learned how to play the flute, the piano, and sang in her children's choir at her Baptist Church.
Through the Phantom of the Opera, Mackenzie found out her first musical passion: Broadway. She started singing in her high school's musical production of Fiddler on the Roof after being told by her family, "If you actually tried being serious, you'd probably have a good voice". Soon after beginning to perform in musicals, she learned to play guitar and began playing and singing hymns during church services and at a nursing home every Saturday.
After high school, Scott moved to Nashville, Tennessee to study at Belmont University. Here, she received a degree in Songwriting and a minor in English Literature in December, 2012. It was in Nashville where Scott began to record her music.
In July 2012, while still a student, she recorded Torres over a five-day session at Tony Joe White's home studio in Franklin, Tennessee with engineer and producer, Ryan McFadden. Following the album's release, on February 8, 2013, she played her debut show as Torres in Nashville at The Basement. The album was digitally released on January 22, 2013.
She has since toured extensively in the US and Europe with a wide variety of musicians, including Lady Lamb the Beekeeper and Okkervil River, and opened for Sharon Van Etten and Hamilton Leithauser. Torres appears as a guest on Sharon Van Etten's 2014 album Are We There? and released a single, "New Skin," through Weathervane Music in June 2014.
On May 4, 2015 Torres released her second album, Sprinter to much critical acclaim. She has toured the US as a headliner, and toured Europe in the fall of 2015. She toured in October 2015 as an opening act for Garbage and her early musical idol, Brandi Carlile.
Carrying an ongoing opening act, Torres joined Tegan and Sara for their 2016 tour.
On September 29, 2017 Torres will release her third album called Three Futures
Critical reception
Music website Pitchfork Media named Torres's debut single, "Honey," best new track, describing it as "an arena-rock moment happening on an empty stage […] with its slow-burn intensity and coiled energy." Following the release of the album, Pitchfork gave the debut Torres album an 8.1 rating calling the record "an overwhelming rush of feeling [...] that connects with throat-seizing immediacy."
Torres also gained the attention of some music blogs, such as Beats Per Minute, Drowned in Sound, and Pretty Much Amazing, as a standout artist for her mature songwriting abilities despite her youth.
Discography
Studio albums
Other releases
Music Videos