Biography

With an authentic drive to show up as her own confidant — singer-songwriter Willa Owen creates a charmed sonic atmosphere that is both melancholic and alluring, turning her most intimate inner thoughts into heartwarming noir pop vignettes. 
Owen first introduced herself to the world last summer with her debut single Sundown which CBC coined “a late-night soother,” with her gentle vocals floating over unhurried bass lines as she flipped the script on a break-up that still stung. After bouncing around Toronto’s music community and retreating oceanside to her hometown of Halifax during the pandemic, Owen is now stepping out of her comfort zone and sowing new creative roots in Montreal’s cozy Mile End. 
Returning with her second single Looking At Me, an even more tenderhearted track, dressed down and stripped back to sparing piano notes trailing her raw vocals, she inverts the private to ask a delicate universal question: how do others inform our sense of self image? Struggling to step out of her own dysphoric thoughts, and leap into the arms and eyes of her encouraging family, friends and lovers, she wonders when it’s better for the witness to become the main point of view. 
Producer Marc-André Gilbert (Charlotte Cardin, Milk & Bone), encouraged her to leave aside the heavy layering in production, and stand alone in her own voice. The recording of the song itself became the self-love message she had to defy to grow.