Rêve (singer)

Donolo grew up in Montreal and has enjoyed music since a young age. When she was three years old, she tried matching the notes from a real piano on her Fisher-Price toy piano. Her father is Italian.[4]

She first gained attention for singing both the American and Canadian national anthems before a Boston Bruins-Montreal Canadiens hockey game on November 13, 2014.[2][5] Her performance caused a "buzz" on social media, as it gave the American anthem a "pop sound". She was contacted by TMZ after the video of her performance earned 100,000 views on YouTube.[6]

She later sang both national anthems at a Toronto Blue Jays exhibition baseball game at Montreal Olympic Stadium in 2016, causing a similar buzz in the media.[7]

Donolo later moved to Toronto to try and gain a foothold in the music industry.[4] She speaks both English and French.

Signed with 31 East / Universal Music Canada, Rêve first gained a following performing on mashups with original lyrics on TikTok.[8] In July 2021, her major-label debut single, "Still Dancing", was released on Astralwerks. She wrote it with Sara Diamond and Banx & Ranx.[8] Her second single "Skin 2 Skin" was released in August 2021. It uses a sample from the band Chicago that is also featured in the 1995 dance song "The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall into My Mind)" by The Bucketheads.[9]

Her single "Ctrl + Alt + Del" was released on September 19, 2021, and was produced by Banx & Ranx, who also co-wrote the song with her.[9] "Ctrl + Alt + Del" charted on the Canadian Hot 100 for 29 weeks, peaking at number 38.[10] It is also featured in the video game FIFA 22,[11] and was later certified platinum in Canada.

Her breakout into the mainstream would only continue into the following year, featuring on the Banx & Ranx song "Headphones".[12] The song was a smash hit, peaking at number 49 on the Canadian Hot 100,[13] and following "Ctrl + Alt + Del" as Reve's second platinum certification in Canada.[3] As a solo artist, she continued to prepare for her debut album, releasing several promotional singles, including "Whitney", a nod to the pop sensation Whitney Houston and her 1993 cover version of "I'm Every Woman", which the song also samples. The track reached a personal chart high for Donolo, peaking at number 29 on the Canadian Hot 100. She received a Juno Award nomination for Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2023.[14]

She released her third and fourth singles, "Big Boom" and "Contemporary Love" the following year, and on July 21, 2023, she announced that her album, "Saturn Return", would be released. It is currently slated for an October 13, 2023 release date.[15] Elsewhere, she participated in an all-star recording of Serena Ryder's single "What I Wouldn't Do", which was released as a charity single to benefit Kids Help Phone's Feel Out Loud campaign for youth mental health.[16]

In 2023, Rêve appeared as herself in the second season of Crave comedy series Shoresy.

In an interview with MTV UK, Rêve said: "They are ever-changing, but my 'staple' musical influences are Kaytranada, Robyn, Rufus du Sol, Madonna and SG Lewis."[1]