Cuban-American singer, songwriter, and producer Gigi Perez proudly announces her just released self-produced full-length debut LP, ‘At The Beach, In Every Life’ via Island Records. Alongside the announcement, Gigi unveils a striking album trailer that artfully sets the stage for what’s to come.
The passionate, poetic, and powerful body of work centers around themes of grief, love, faith, and religion. Notably the album processes the aftermath of losing her beloved sister Celene whose voice memos weave throughout the LP, the motif that glues her debut together. Recorded and Executive Produced by Perez, and with the help of her dear friends and collaborators, Noah Weinman and Aidan Hobbs, the album captures a clear representation of Gigi’s life over the past five years which saw her signing her first major label deal during the pandemic, getting dropped, returning home to her native South Florida to start over again, and how swimming through grief and romance challenge those things. On her third independent release, Perez released “Sailor Song” before signing to Island Records in the fall of 2024.
On the album, Gigi stated, “This is the album I needed to listen to when I was twenty years old following the passing of my older sister, Celene. It's taken years to process, and seeing how it's colored everything in my life, it feels like a flag down in the sand at a checkpoint rather than a destination. And there was water everywhere for miles, and a girl met me there every time. I have been loved through my grief.”
Rolling Stone magazine recently touted Gigi among “2025 Pop Acts to Watch,” asserting, “Gigi Perez is on track to become a household name this year.”Billboard chronicled her rise, placing her among its “Artists to Watch in 2025,” while BBC claims “it won't be long before Gigi sees her name tattooed on many more arms.”
Perez made her debut on the Billboard Hot 100 with Sailor Song in August 2024, where the single has continued to climb for 33 weeks and has generatednearly 1 billion streams. The song has also reached Top 5 on Spotify’s US charts, Top 10 on Spotify’s Global chart.
In February, Gigi made her debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on NBC with a stunning rendition of Sailor Song. HOLLR professed, “Gigi Perez's captivating performance consolidates her position as one of the most exciting new voices in the folk-pop genre, with the sense of anticipation continuing to sky-rocket...”
Next up, Gigi will embark on a sold-out global headline tour, performing in Germany, The UK, France, The Netherlands, and Switzerland. She returns to North America in April for a headline run including shows at Irving Plaza in New York, NY on April 23 and the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, CA on May 7.
Gigi Perez invites everyone behind the curtain. When you peel back the layers of her songs, her questions of faith, memories of loved ones gone-way-too-soon, visions of ecstasy, and premonitions of romance bubble up to the surface. All of these emotions feel familiar because they’re delivered without filter in poetically blunt lyrics stitched into the fabric of her soft production and naked acoustic guitar. However, she doesn’t tell anybody what to think or how to feel; she simply holds up a mirror.
Her story has twisted and turned with the unpredictability of your favorite novel. After leaving Berklee College of Music mid-pandemic, the platinum-certified Cuban-American singer, songwriter, and producer built an audience and parlayed the excitement for her original material into a major label deal. 2021’s Sometimes (Backwood) exploded to the tune of over 153 million Spotify streams, paving the way for shows alongside everyone from Coldplay to Noah Cyrus and setting the stage for her fan-favorite How to Catch a Falling Knife EP [2023].
Leaving her label and expectations in the rearview, she took control of her destiny in 2024. Grabbing the reins tighter than ever, she taught herself how to record and produce on her own and made the most of her newfound freedom by issuing Please Be Rude independently. Gigi only further engaged listeners with Normalcy before taking flight with the breakout Sailor Song.