Typh Barrow
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{{Infobox musical artist
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| name = Typh Barrow
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| caption = Typh Barrow in concert, July 2015
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| birth_name = Tiffany Baworowski
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1987|05|10|df=y}}
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| birth_place = Brussels, Belgium
| occupation = singer-songwriter
| instrument = vocals, piano
| years_active = 2012–present
| label = Doo Wap
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| website = {{URL|www.typhbarrow.com}}
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Typh Barrow (born 10 May 1987) is a Belgian singer, songwriter, jurist, composer and pianist who was born in Brussels, Belgium. Her style is a mixture of pop and soul music with jazz and blues accents.
She is considered by the press to be the Belgian Adele or Amy Winehouse.{{cite web|url=http://www.lesoir.be/617572/article/culture/musiques/2014-08-05/typh-barrow-temps-d-une-voix|title=Typh Barrow, le temps d’une voix|date=5 August 2014|work=Le Soir|author=Thierry Coljon|access-date=2 March 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.public.fr/News/Belgique/Typh-Barrow-Chaque-artiste-a-sa-maniere-est-une-pepite-644832|title=Typh Barrow: "Chaque artiste, à sa manière, est une pépite!"|date=31 December 2014|work=Public|access-date=2 March 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052959/http://www.public.fr/News/Belgique/Typh-Barrow-Chaque-artiste-a-sa-maniere-est-une-pepite-644832|archive-date=4 March 2016|df=}}
Her mother tongue is French. She is also fluent in English, Spanish and Dutch.
Beginnings
She began piano at age five, scales at eight, and wrote one of her first songs at twelve. At fourteen she started taking singing lessons.
She learnt live performing in numerous piano bars and met the person who would become her producer and manager, François Leboutte. He had her record her first demos before launching her in the profession.
At the end of 2012 she released her first single, Your Turn, which was warmly received by Belgian radio stations and was the most played song in the French speaking part of Belgium in 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.ultratop.be/fr/song/109861/Typhene-Your-Turn|title=Typhène – Your Turn|work=Ultratop|access-date=2 March 2016}}
When the moment came to release her first EP, she lost her voice during a live show, due to a vocal fold cyst. She had to remain silent for several months to avoid the necessity of an operation which might make her lose her voice tone.{{cite web|url=http://www.nostalgie.be/emissions/made-in-belgium/airco-et-typh-barrow-sortent-du-silence.html|title=Airco et Typh Barrow sortent du silence|date=2 May 2014|work=Nostalgie|author=Laura Vliex|access-date=2 March 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194737/http://www.nostalgie.be/emissions/made-in-belgium/airco-et-typh-barrow-sortent-du-silence.html|archive-date=3 March 2016|df=}} She had no choice but to cancel all her engagements.
Success
In 2013 she started posting piano-voice covers on YouTube, which quickly achieved millions of views.{{cite web|url=http://www.elle.be/fr/36352-decouverte-crescendo-typh-barrow.html|title=Découverte : le crescendo de Typh Barrow|date=25 April 2014|work=Elle|access-date=2 March 2016}} Her cover of "Gangsta's Paradise" was noticed by the rapper Coolio, its original interpreter, who called it the best cover of his hit.{{cite web|url=http://www.dhnet.be/archive/une-belge-adoubee-par-coolio-539de78b35701a56330ad3c7|title=Une Belge adoubée par Coolio|date=15 June 2014|work=La Dernière Heure|author=Charlotte Vanbever|access-date=2 March 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.rtl.be/info/magazine/culture/sa-reprise-de-coolio-fait-le-tour-du-web-la-premiere-fois-que-je-me-suis-entendue-ca-a-ete-un-drame--745216.aspx|title=Ses reprises font le tour du web: "J’avais honte de ma voix"|date=10 August 2015|work=RTL|access-date=2 March 2016}}
In 2014 she released two EPs. First was Time, which contained original songs and recorded in Paris, London and New York in collaboration with (Tom Coyne, Volodia…).{{cite web|url=http://archives.lesoir.be/typh-barrow-time_t-20140604-02CD82.html?query=Typh+Barrow&firstHit=0&by=10&sort=datedesc&when=-1&queryor=Typh+Barrow&pos=0&all=92&nav=1|title=Typh Barrow Time|date=4 June 2014|work=Le Soir|author=Thierry Coljon|access-date=2 March 2016}} And Visions, a cover EP she offers to her internet followers.
Among her most famous tracks are "Time",{{cite web|url=http://www.ultratop.be/fr/song/135b81/Typh-Barrow-Time|title=Typh Barrow – Time|work=Ultratop|access-date=2 March 2016}} "To Say Goodbye",{{cite web|url=http://www.ultratop.be/fr/song/13ab48/Typh-Barrow-To-Say-Goodbye|title=Typh Barrow – To Say Goodbye|work=Ultratop|access-date=2 March 2016}} and "No Diggity".{{cite web|url=http://www.ultratop.be/fr/song/13ab4a/Typh-Barrow-No-Diggity|title=Typh Barrow – No Diggity|work=Ultratop|access-date=2 March 2016}} All of these tracks made the best radio charts and the double EP spent several weeks in the official charts.
Thanks to these songs, she was invited to appear on numerous TV shows{{cite web|url=http://www.rtbf.be/video/detail_typh-barrow?id=1999194|title=Typh Barrow – Le Dan Late Show (06/03/2015)|date=10 March 2015|work=RTBF|access-date=2 March 2016}} and to give numerous concerts across Europe and at festivals such as Les Francofolies de Spa,{{cite web|url=http://www.francofolies.be/artistes/typh-barrow/%5B%22affiche%22%2C%22les-artistes%22%5D/9136/*/*/*|title=Typh Barrow (be)|work=Francofolies de Spa|access-date=2 March 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924015237/http://www.francofolies.be/artistes/typh-barrow/%5B%22affiche%22,%22les-artistes%22%5D/9136/*/*/*|archive-date=24 September 2015|df=}} the Brussels Summer Festival and the Festival de Cannes.
In 2015 the RTBF music show D6bels on Stage dedicated a special edition to her and the news broadcast of the same channel mentioned her among the favourites of the Francofolies de Spa's 2015 edition.
In 2016 she went to London to record her next album in Abbey Road studios, which has preserved the equipment used in the 1960s. She notably worked with Dimitri Tikovoï, Danton Supple and with the funk, jazz, hip-hop and soul collective The Heliocentrics. The Whispers, the first single from these recordings, was released in March 2016.
In January 2017 she was nominated for the D6bels Music Awards in the categories "Female Artist of the Year" and "Artist Classic 21", and she released a new song, Daddy's Not Coming Back.
On 13 October 2019, Typh Barrow was among various artists (including Yannick Noah, Christophe Maé, Black M, and James Blunt) to perform at RTBF's [https://www.cap48.be/ Cap48] event, (a fundraising event held mainly to help those with disabilities in the Wallonia-Brussels and German communities of Belgium). The event aired live on RTBF.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cap48.be/2019/09/24/le-programme-de-la-grande-soiree-cap48-du-13-octobre/|title=Programme de la Grande Soirée CAP48 - dimanche 13 octobre 2019 - CAP48|date=2019-09-24|website=CAP 48|language=fr-FR|access-date=2019-10-21}}{{Citation|title=Typh Barrow - "Doesn't really matter" live @CAP48|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jU7pDTd_MM|language=en|access-date=2019-10-21}}
Discography
= Studio albums =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:9.5em;"| Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:21.5em;"| Studio album details ! scope="col" colspan="2"| Peak chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:13em;"| Certifications |
| scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"| BEL (WA) {{cite web|url=https://www.ultratop.be/fr/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Typh+Barrow|title=Discographie Typh Barrow|website=ultratop.be|accessdate=25 January 2020}} ! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"| BEL |
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| scope="row"| RAW
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| 1 || 162 | |
| scope="row"| Aloha
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| 1 || — | |
= EPs =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:9.5em;"| Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:21.5em;"| EP details ! scope="col" colspan="1"| Peak chart positions |
| scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"| BEL (WA) |
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| scope="row"| Time
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| 50 |
| scope="row"| Visions
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| 175 |
= Singles =
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! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:9.5em;"| Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:2.5em;"| Year ! scope="col" colspan="2"| Peak chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:7em;"| Album |
| scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"| BEL (WA) ! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"| BEL |
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| scope="row"| "Your Turn"
| 2012 | 57 || — | rowspan=3|Time |
| scope="row"| "Do I Care"
| 2013 | 64 || — |
| scope="row"| "To Say Goodbye"
| rowspan=2|2014 | 88 || — |
| scope="row"| "No Diggity"
| 55 || — | Visions |
| scope="row"| "The Whispers"
| 2016 | 73 || — | rowspan=4|RAW |
| scope="row"| "Daddy's Not Coming Back"
| 2017 | 90 || — |
| scope="row"| "Taboo"
| rowspan=2|2018 | 23 || 88 |
| scope="row"| "The Absence"
| 86 || — |
| scope="row"| "Replace"
| rowspan=2|2019 | 10 || — | rowspan=3|Aloha |
| scope="row"| "Doesn't Really Matter"
| 9 || Tip22 |
| scope="row"| "Aloha" {{small|(featuring Gulaan)}} | 2020 | 18 || — |
| scope="row"| "Don't Let Me Go"
| 2023 | 17 || — | {{Non-album single}} |
References
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External links
- {{officialwebsite|http://www.typhbarrow.com}}
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Category:Belgian women singer-songwriters
Category:Belgian singer-songwriters
Category:French-language singers of Belgium
Category:Belgian women jazz singers
Category:Belgian jazz pianists
Category:Belgian women jazz pianists
Category:Musicians from Brussels
Category:21st-century Belgian women singers