The New York native makes his late-night debut with two tracks from his first EP: I barely know her
Singer and songwriter Shadow debuted on Saturday Night Live with two hits from I barely know herhis debut album, which he released in August.
New York native who just picked up the phone Grammy nomination in the category “Best New Artist”, opening with the words “from 12 to 12“, nominated for the MTV Video Music Awards in the Song of the Summer category.
Sombre later returned to the piano with “Back to Friends,” which he co-wrote and produced.
The lead single from the ten-track album, “Back to Friends,” is one of Rolling Stone's The best songs of 2025 so faras it “plays out as a passionate conversation that seeps through the walls and reflects the melodrama of teenage love.”
Sombre, whose real name is Shane Booze, “performs with a distinct inner confidence and outward charm that was conspicuously absent from the fading releases of many of his male pop contemporaries,” as Rolling StoneLarisha Pavel wrote in a positive review of his first album.
Sombra stop SNL coincided with the end of the North American leg of The Late Nights & Young Romance Tour, which it sold out. Early next month he go to New Zealand and Australia before the start of a series of shows in Europe in February.
“It's hard to step back and say, 'Wow, this is amazing,' when everything happens so quickly, but it's the best thing that ever happened to me,” the 20-year-old. revealed by MTV in September before you make yours awards show debut at the VMA. “Being able to meet all these people and go to all these countries and see all these new faces and wonderful people that are connected to my music is everything I've ever wanted to do in my life, so this is the best thing ever.”
