After finishing American Idol’s ninth season as a top-ten finalist, singer/songwriter Didi Benami stepped out of the spotlight and spent several years refining her craft and pushing into deeper emotional territory in her music. A near-lifelong singer who started songwriting as a teenager, the Tennessee-bred 27-year-old devoted those years to dreaming up songs that gracefully fuse folk, soul, and rock with an intimate emotionalism inspired by the likes of Joni Mitchell and Stevie Nicks. Infused with a powerful melancholy—and shaped by such struggles as Benami’s troubled childhood and the tragic loss of her best friend—the resulting debut album Reverie merges ethereal alt-rock with pop-perfect melodies, hypnotic guitars, heady beats, and Benami’s stunning vocal work.
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