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Cordelia
Cordelia O’Driscoll is a storyteller. Her lifelong fascination with the lore of classic songwriters has grounded her in the folk tradition of meditating on life’s small moments. On her debut Caramel EP and its standout single ‘Little Life’, she muses on fulfilment, gratitude and being happy with what you have. The track’s runaway success in the winter of 2023 proved that her message has a global resonance.
Living in London since 2020, O’Driscoll worked in the Pavilion Cafe in Victoria Park through two years of pandemic lockdowns. Despite the 5am starts in deep winter and 12-hour shifts, she fell in love with the simplicity of the job and her uninterrupted life outside of work. “I thought, maybe I’ll just do this, maybe I don’t need more.” Bottling that realisation, she wrote ‘Little Life’. “My goal ultimately is just to enjoy my life. I don’t think there’s anything that I would make myself miserable to achieve,” she explains. “I really just thought this EP would come out, my friends would like it and I’d be proud of it; that would be enough.” Since the song’s release in October 2023, millions of people all over the world have connected with its messages of simplicity and escape; the perfect introduction to the work of a generational talent.
As her Caramel EP continues to surpass its origins, 2025 starts as O’Driscoll’s most prolific year. Recent releases muse on the ebb and flow of friendship, drunken arguments, and notes on growing older. Regardless of whether they’ll be officially released, O’Driscoll writes songs like journal entries. “This might not be something I would release but this just happened,” she explains. “Capturing these moments in time, sometimes they’re incredibly fleeting. Then you perform them and you’re put back in that headspace, going back in time. It’s like life flashing before your eyes.”