The Australian Ry Cuming, known by the stage name RY X will make his big debut in Portugal on July 12th at NOS Alive ‘ 19. The singer and songwriter plays at the Sagres stage on the same day of the already announced Tash Sultana, H.E.R., Cut Copy and Pip Blom.
The musician, who sees in Pearl Jam and Jeff Buckley his great influences, having the latter been responsible for Ry begin to write, revealed to the world in 2010 the namesake debut album, still under the alias Ry Cuming. In 2013 he launches the EP “Berlin” and is with this single that enters the tops in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. This theme also gained the attention of Sam Smith, who even created a cover with his version.
However, it was in 2016 that his musical path changed course, assuming the nickname RY X with the edition of “Dawn”, a disc that earned him powerful praise of criticism, as is the example the New York Times, which secured “His voice is a pearly , androgynous tenor, a vessel for liquid melancholy that blurs words at the edges. He stretches pop structures with repetition that grows devotional, obsessive, hypnotic “.
For 2019 fans will count on news, because the edition of the second long duration already has a date scheduled for February 15th. The themes of the new album, as well as the older ones will be presented for the first time in Portugal on July 12th at Passeio Marítimo de Algés.