Olivia Dean

Olivia Lauryn Dean (born 14 March 1999) is a British singer and songwriter. She has released two studio albums, Messy (2023) and The Art of Loving (2025), as well as two live albums and four EPs.

In 2021, Olivia Dean was named the Breakthrough Artist of the Year by Amazon Music, and in 2023, she was selected as BBC Music Introducing Artist of the Year.As of 2025, Dean has been nominated for a Grammy Award, the Mercury Prize and three Brit Awards. Her 2025 single "Man I Need" became a worldwide success, including reaching number one on the UK singles chart.

Dean began writing songs at age 16, teaching herself the guitar and piano.  She performed at her graduation concert, which attracted the attention of Emily Braham, whom she hired as her manager. Braham got Dean into an audition with Rudimental, who hired Dean as a backing vocalist.

Dean has said that she was not good in the position as she often sang the melody instead of the harmony.  In 2017, Dean performed her first show at the Sziget Festival in Hungary before a crowd of 16,000.

In October 2018, Dean self-released her debut single, "Reason to Stay".  She was featured on Rudimental's single "Adrenaline" on the album Toast to Our Differences, released in January 2019.  She later signed a recording contract with AMF Records and Virgin EMI Records, and released her debut EP, named OK Love You Bye in November 2019.

It was recorded in a converted pub in East London.Her second EP, What Am I Gonna Do On Sundays?, was released in December 2020. In April 2021, she was named the breakthrough artist of the year by Amazon Music.  That year, Dean recorded an exclusive version of Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song" for Amazon's Christmas Originals line-up, which charted at number 19 on the UK singles chart.

In August 2021, Dean was selected to take part in the Revive Live Tour organized by Music Venue Trust and funded by The National Lottery to help grassroots music venues recover after the pandemic and enable artists to tour. Dean performed 6 gigs at venues in Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield, Cambridge, Bournemouth and Brighton.

In 2023, Olivia Dean was selected as BBC Music Introducing Artist of the Year.  In June of that year, she released her debut full-length album, Messy.  Dean performed at Glastonbury Festival 2024. On 26 June 2024, she released the single "Time", and a cover of the Supremes's "You Can't Hurry Love", recorded at Jools' Annual Hootenanny, on 9 October 2024. She released her third single of that year, "Touching Toes", on 15 November.

In February 2025, Dean released the single "It Isn't Perfect But It Might Be" for the film Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. In the same month, Dean also performed for all six dates at Laneway Festival 2025 in Australia.

Dean supported Sam Fender on selected dates of Fender's People Watching Tour, including shows at London Stadium and St James' Park, and collaborated with Fender on a duet version of "Rein Me In". The duet was first performed at the London Stadium on June 6 June 2025, before being released as a single on June 25. The single peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart.

Her second album, The Art of Loving, was released on 26 September 2025. The album was preceded by the singles "Nice to Each Other", "Lady Lady" and "Man I Need", with "Man I Need" topping the UK singles chart, reaching number 4 on the Billboard Global 200, and becoming Dean's breakthrough hit internationally.

In October 2025, Dean was announced as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, and performed during the episode of 16 November 2025 hosted by Glen Powell.