Cobrah

Born Clara Havdahl, she was raised in Gothenburg, Sweden. At the age of four, she moved from the urban part of the city to the suburban community.{{cite web |last=Hunt |first=El |date=May 12, 2021 |title=Cobrah: Swedish pop newcomer mastering 'gay workout music' |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-radar/cobrah-swedish-pop-newcomer-mastering-gay-workout-music-2937280 |access-date=September 12, 2022 |website=NME}} She was a flautist and in high school, studied musical theatre.{{cite web |last=Dunn |first=Frankie |title=10 things you need to know about Cobrah, the Stockholm artist making BDSM-pop |url=https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/y3mk5k/cobrah-debut-music-interview |access-date=September 12, 2022 |website=i-D |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220912021417/https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/y3mk5k/cobrah-debut-music-interview |archive-date=September 12, 2022 |url-status=dead}} As a teenager, she expressed adoration for goth clothing, which her mother disapproved of. As a result, she hid these pieces of clothing in her backpack and changed into them before going to school.{{cite web |last=Samways |first=Gemma |date=October 18, 2021 |title=Cobrah: "The sound of rubber and chains is very much translated into the music" |url=https://thefortyfive.com/interviews/cobrah-the-sound-of-rubber-and-chains-is-very-much-translated-into-the-music/ |access-date=June 28, 2023 |website=The Forty-Five}} In 2017, she moved to Berlin in order to find music producers to collaborate with.

After moving to Berlin, COBRAH connected with various music producers and began experimenting with numerous types of music. She eventually stuck with the music producers Hannes Roover and Isaac Hördegård, the former of whom she met in Sweden before moving to Berlin.{{Cite web |last=Hall |first=Jake |date=May 10, 2019 |title=Cobrah curates Stockholm's queer and fetish scenes |url=https://theface.com/music/cobrah-curates-stockholms-fetish-scene |access-date=December 28, 2023 |website=The Face}} COBRAH created her record label, GAGBALL Records, to release her first single in 2018.{{Cite web |title=Get Glitchy With These 7 Artists Essential To Hyperpop {{!}} GRAMMY.com |url=https://grammy.com/news/listen-essential-hyperpop-artists-alice-longyu-gao-shygirl-daine-hannah-diamond-slayyyter-namasenda-cobrah-charli-xcx-sophie-tiktok-gen-z |access-date=May 2, 2024 |website=grammy.com}} She released her debut single, "IDFKA" (an acronym for "I Don't Fucking Know Anymore"), in 2018.{{cite web |last=Phillips |first=Nicola |date=February 1, 2019 |title=Exclusive Mixtape: Cobrah |url=https://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/exclusive-mixtape-cobrah/ |access-date=June 28, 2023 |website=Kaltblut Magazine}} In a 2020 interview about her debut single she said, "Like, honestly, everything... That song just keeps giving me a new meaning every week. It was about growing up and having a very ambivalent relationship with sex and romance. As I think most teenagers do, especially teenage girls that are looking for a place of belonging. It's easy to be taken advantage of, and it's very hard when you're a kid to realize when it happens." She released more singles throughout 2019 to promote the upcoming release of her debut EP, Icon. The singles include "Wet" and "U Know Me". After the promotion cycle of Icon, she released the single "Tea" in collaboration with British radio station Rinse FM{{citation needed|date=June 2023}} and performed with Charli XCX.

She released the single "Debut" in 2020, which was followed by critical acclaim. Paper called it "no exception" and did an interview with her prior to release.{{cite web |last=Moen |first=Matt |date=March 12, 2020 |title=Cobrah Premieres BDSM Pop Banger 'Debut' |url=https://www.papermag.com/cobrah-debut-gagball-2645462877.html |access-date=June 28, 2023 |website=Paper Mag}} She released her self-titled EP on her label GAGBALL on May 21, 2021.{{cite web |title=Artist Partner Group, Inc. Music and DJ Edits on Beatsource |url=https://www.beatsource.com/label/artist-partner-group-inc/106401 |access-date=June 28, 2023 |website=Beatsource}}{{cite web |last=Moen |first=Matt |date=March 24, 2021 |title=Cobrah's Got That Real 'Good Puss' |url=https://www.papermag.com/cobrah-good-puss-2651185543.html?rebelltitem=11#rebelltitem11?rebelltitem=11 |access-date=September 12, 2022 |website=Paper Magazine}} She followed up the release of COBRAH with the "Good PusS" remix, featuring Cupcakke.{{cite web |date=February 23, 2022 |title=Good PusS (feat. cupcakKe) [Remix] - Single by Cobrah |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/good-puss-feat-cupcakke-remix-single/1609656799 |access-date=June 28, 2023 |website=Apple Music |language=en-US}} COBRAH was included on the 2022 edition of NME's essential new artists for the year.{{cite web |date=January 7, 2022 |title=The NME 100: essential emerging artists for 2022 |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-radar/nme-100-essential-new-artists-for-2022-3130442 |access-date=September 12, 2022 |website=NME}}

In 2023, she gave her distribution rights to Atlantic Records and released "Suck" in June 2023, her first single with them.{{cite web |title=Introducing the electric @_iamcobrah_ to the Atlantic and @wearebigbeat family 🖤 Her delicious new single "Suck" is available everywhere now |url=https://twitter.com/AtlanticRecords/status/1669762017266204675?s=20 |access-date=June 28, 2023 |website=Twitter}} On August 11, the second single, "Manic", was released and a third, "Feminine Energy", was released on September 8 alongside the announcement of her third EP, Succubus, which was released on October 13.{{Cite web |date=August 11, 2023 |title=COBRAH GOES "MANIC" |url=https://officemagazine.net/cobrah-goes-manic |access-date=May 2, 2024 |website=Office Magazine |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Summers |first=Joan |date=March 20, 2024 |title=Cobrah Goes Hard in NYC |url=https://www.papermag.com/cobrah-photo-diary#rebelltitem1 |website=Paper Magazine}} Succubus then won best Electro/Dance album of the year at the 2024 Swedish Grammis. https://grammis.se/om-grammis/grammisvinnare-genom-aren/

On October 12, COBRAH announced a 14-date tour for 2024 across North America starting on February 22 in Vancouver and ending on March 19 in Atlanta. Later on, she also extended the tour across Europe after performing at two Australian headline shows and four festivals.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

In 2024, her 2022 single "Brand New Bitch" was used as a theme, and in the marketing and trailers, for Yorgos Lanthimos' film Kinds of Kindness. In the film, the song appears in a scene where the lead actress Emma Stone dances energetically to the song.

COBRAH told Vogue Adria: "Although I make electronic music, and it sounds completely different [from Kate Bush's], I think when you're an artist, it's important to come into the music industry with an artistic, new, exciting point of view. And artists like Kate Bush really inspired me to find that within myself..."{{cite web |url=https://vogueadria.com/cobrah-interview/ |title=Behind the scenes of the infectious hit "Brand New Bitch", Cobrah takes us through it all |date=June 24, 2024 |access-date=October 19, 2024 |website=Vogue Adria |first=Tena |last=Razumović Žmara}} COBRAH makes music influenced by the BDSM scene in Stockholm, Sweden.{{cite web |last=Dunn |first=Frankie |date=March 19, 2020 |title=10 things you need to know about Cobrah, the Stockholm artist making BDSM-pop |url=https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/y3mk5k/cobrah-debut-music-interview |access-date=June 28, 2023 |website=i-d.vice.com}} She became immersed in the BDSM scene after she connected with photographer Katrin Unge.

COBRAH worked as a teacher until late 2020.

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• [https://www.allmusic.com/artist/cobrah-mn0003859864 COBRAH] at AllMusic

• [https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3574047b-f0d3-4982-b187-16e430f2474d COBRAH] discography at MusicBrainz

• [https://m.imdb.com/name/nm15060785/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk COBRAH] at IMDb

• [https://www.discogs.com/artist/9320827-COBRAH COBRAH] discography at Discogs

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