Aluna Francis broke onto the scene in 2012 as one half of AlunaGeorge, the London duo whose sleek mix of electronic pop, R&B, UK garage and house music helped define the decade\u2019s dance-pop sound and turn \u201cYou Know You Like It\u201d into a hit.<\/p>\n
But by 2020, the British singer, songwriter, producer and DJ was ready to step out on her own. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she used AlunaGeorge\u2019s hiatus to launch a solo career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were certain things, purely from a selfish perspective, that I wasn\u2019t able to express as part of a duo,\u201d she told NME in a 2020 interview.<\/p>\n
With her solo debut, \u201cRenaissance,\u201d Aluna set out to carve out space for herself as a Black woman in dance music while spotlighting the genre\u2019s Black roots and influences.<\/p>\n
She expanded on that vision with her 2023 follow-up, \u201cMYCELiUM,\u201d blending bass-heavy grooves, sharp pop hooks and airy vocals into a sound that is both reflective and dancefloor-ready. The result is club music with both shimmer and purpose that is\u00a0sensual, propulsive and self-possessed.<\/p>\n
Bay Area fans can hear that evolution when the artist, who performs under the mononym Aluna, plays a late-night, ages 21 and older set at 1015 Folsom on Friday, June 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aluna Francis broke onto the scene in 2012 as one half of AlunaGeorge, the London duo whose sleek…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[329,7,35717,330,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-356228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-california","tag-datebook-pick","tag-music","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}