Savannah Ré On Signing With Boi-1da & Universal Music, New Single “Where You Are” & Career Goals

A highly-skilled songwriter, Toronto-based R&B artist and songwriter Savannah Ré has developed an acumen for an arrestingly honest style of self-reflection that’s the mark of music’s elite. With a trained eye for capturing small details, Ré crafts songs that forfeit polished stories for authentic ones. It’s this carefully-refined formula for songwriting that has brought her under the mentorship of Grammy Award-winning producer Boi-1da (Drake, Eminem, Nicki Minaj, Kendrick Lamar) and has made her the go-to collaborator for R&B’s upper echelon where she’s written with artists like Babyface, Daniel Caesar and Wondagurl and touring alongside the likes of TLC and Jessie Reyez.

This week on July 23rd, Savannah Ré will release “Where You Are,” the first single from her debut EP Opia, which is due out later this year. Co-written by Savannah Ré and produced by Allen Ritter (Cardi B, Kanye West, Rihanna, Travis Scott) and the aforementioned Boi-1da, “Where You Are” serves as the follow-up to her recent releases “DVP” and 2019’s “Best Is Yet To Come”; “Best Is Yet To Come” was notably selected as one of the “100 Best Songs of the Year” by the taste-making Apple Music.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Savannah Ré by phone on July 21, 2020 about “Where You Are,” life during COVID-19, future plans and plenty more. The full interview is embedded below for your listening pleasure, while more on Ré can be found online by visiting www.savannahre.com.

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Darren Paltrowitz Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident with over 20 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. Since then, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer. Darren's writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including the New York Daily News, Inquisitr, The Daily Meal, The Hype Magazine, All Music Guide, Guitar World, TheStreet.com, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, and the Jewish Journal. Beyond being "Editor At Large" for The Hype Magazine, Darren is also the host of weekly "Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz" series, which airs on dozens on television and digital networks. He has also co-authored 2 published books, 2018's "Pocket Change: Your Happy Money" (Book Web Publishing) and 2019's "Good Advice From Professional Wrestling" (6623 Press), and co-hosts the world's only known podcast about David Lee Roth, "The DLR Cast."