Victoria Canal Shares New Single “June Baby,” Co-Written & Co-Produced By The 1975’s Ross Macdonald & George Daniel

Watch The "June Baby" Music Video

The “Rising Star” (New Yorker) Announces 2024 Worldwide Headline Tour, Following 2nd Ivor Novello Award Win

Hi-res assets here // photo credit: Martina Matencio

June 14, 2024: Spanish-American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Victoria Canal released her new single “June Baby” today via Parlophone Records. The fun and flirty summer tune is co-written by the 1975’s bassist Ross MacDonald and co-produced by drummer George Daniel. Canal met the 1975 backstage during her Jools Holland debut performance last year and quickly developed what Daniel calls a “really rare” connection. 

“Victoria is a legitimate star,” says MacDonald. “To be in the studio with her and watch musical ideas and lyrics pour out of her so naturally was a joy and a pleasure.”

“As soon as Ross played me this song I was blown away and had to get on it, it felt like a breath of fresh air (a very talented breath),” says Daniel of the “June Baby” collaboration. 

“June Baby” is about the thrill of an adolescent summer romance and marks the “first chapter of a new era,” says Canal, “which will go places I’ve never gone before musically, so I’m just ready to get it out there and have some fun.” The “June Baby” music video, directed by Henry Croston and filmed throughout Barcelona, Spain, is out now. Watch HERE.

Also today, Canal announced a worldwide headline tour, spanning the UK, Europe and North America. The “Just What I Needed” tour kicks off September 16 in Milwaukee, WI, for a three week run, before heading overseas for performances in Barcelona, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, London and more. Artist presale tickets are on sale now, with general on-sale beginning Monday, June 17. Please see a full list of tour dates below and visit https://www.victoriacanal.com/tour for tickets. 

Last month, Canal picked up her second Ivor Novello Award, judged by acclaimed songwriters and composers from The Ivors Academy and awarded for craft and creative excellence. After winning the 2023 “Rising Star” award, she followed in the footsteps of The Beatles, Elton John, Amy Winehouse, and more, winning the award for “Best Song Musically and Lyrically” for her song “Black Swan.”

“June Baby” follows the release of intimate single “Chamomile” and 2023’s WELL WELL EP, a support tour with Hozier across the UK and Europe, being named a BBC Radio 1 Future Artist, earning the Attitude Pride Icon Award, and receiving acclaim from The New Yorker, The Observer, The Times, NME, People Magazine, and more.

“June Baby” artwork // photo credit: Maris Jones

About Victoria Canal:

25-year-old Spanish-American singer, songwriter and producer Victoria Canal makes soul-stirring, emotive pop music. Canal says her international upbringing fostered her love for a nomadic life in music. A proud “third culture kid,” she has lived everywhere from Shanghai, Tokyo, Amsterdam, London, and Dubai to Atlanta, New York, and Forth Worth, and takes pride in her identity as a queer, disabled, mixed-heritage woman.

Canal is the recipient of two Ivor Novello Awards, recognising her songwriting talent, an Attitude Pride award and an Imagen Award nomination for her television acting debut in acclaimed Apple TV+ anthology series Little America.

In 2022 Canal released her EP Elegy, which delicately dealt with themes of grief and death, and featured the single “swan song,” which Chris Martin of Coldplay hailed as ‘one of the best songs ever written’ and was performed live on Later… with Jools Holland, appearing alongside the likes of Self Esteem and The 1975.

Her Ivor Novello Award winning sister song ‘Black Swan’ features on her 2023 EP WELL WELL, which found Canal turning the lens back on herself to look inwards with courage and vulnerability. The singles “Shape” and “She Walks In” were the first time she’d shared on the themes of body image and body dysmorphia, pertaining in part to her limb difference.

Years in the making, Canal has been busy writing and recording her debut album, pushing her sonic boundaries to create her most wide reaching and expressive music to date. Canal has toured worldwide and is set to play her biggest run of headline shows in late 2024.

Victoria Canal 2024 Live Dates

August 17 - Biddinghuizen, Netherlands - Lowlands Festival

September 7 - Munich, Germany - Superbloom Festival

September 16 - Milwaukee, WI - Vivarium

September 17 - Evanston, IL, Space

September 19 - Columbus, OH - The Basement

September 21 - Richmond, VA - Iron Blossom Festival 

September 23 - Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle 

September 24 - Atlanta, GA - Vinyl 

September 25 - Nashville, TN - 3rd and Lindsley 

September 27 - Lake Orion, MI - 20 Front Street 

September 29 - Cincinnati, OH - Ludlow Garage 

September 30 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE * 

October 2 - Madison, WI - Sylvee * 

October 3 - St. Paul, MN - Palace Theatre * 

October 4 - Des Moines, IA - Val Air Ballroom *

October 9 - Barcelona, Spain - La Nau

October 10 - Madrid, Spain - Conde Duque 

October 12 - Lisbon, Portugal - Musicbox Lisboa 

October 13 - Porto, Portugal - Porto Mouco

October 19 - Manchester, UK - The Deaf Institute 

October 21 - Birmingham, UK - O2 Institute 3 

October 24 - London, UK - EartH Theatre 

October 26 - Bristol, UK - Strange Brew 

October 28 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Tolhuistuin

October 31 - Brussels, Belgium - AB Club 

November 2 - Cologne, Germany - Yuca 

November 3 - Berlin, Germany - Frannz Club

November 5 - Hamburg, Germany - Nochtspeicher 

November 9 - La Roche sur Yon, France - Le Quai M

November 10 - Bordeaux, France - Le Rocher De Palmer 

November 12 - Paris, France - La Boule Noire

November 13 - Lille, France - La Bulle Café

November 14 - Rouen, France - Le 106

* Supporting Sammy Rae & Friends

Recent Praise for Victoria Canal

“Canal’s ascendant career is built on her ability to unflinchingly capture feelings… she seems on the brink of something bigger.” - The New Yorker

“Perceptive, unflinching songs… as the world wakes up to her many talents.” - The Observer

"Her piano playing is mesmerising." - The Times

“Her gentle and ruminative form of songwriting is finally getting the recognition it deserves.” - i-D

“A tender blend of goosebump-inducing balladry akin to the kind of cataclysmic intensity of artists like Phoebe Bridgers or Holly Humberstone." - NME

“Beautiful.” - Attitude Magazine, Pride Icon Award winner

“WELL WELL represents her at her most vulnerable and her most brave.” - Gay Times

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