The country fell in love with Darci Lynne when she, with her puppet Petunia Rabbit, won America’s Got Talent in 2017. She was a 12-year-old ventriloquist who made her bunny sing like a bird. Lynne and Petunia not only earned a Golden Buzzer when she auditioned but received the most votes in the show’s history when she won.
Now 19, Lynne is stepping out release music without her puppets. Her second single, “Someone Wake Me Up,” is out now.
“Over the past couple of years, I’ve gotten into music,” Lynne said, explaining that she’s been writing songs for four years and released her debut song in February. “I’m just cruising and really enjoying this new passion.”
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Lynne wrote “Someone Wake Me Up” with Shane Henry and Maggie McClure (The Imaginaries). She describes the song as “very spunky yet hopeful” and “kind of cheeky.”
“I’ve gone on my fair share of dates with boys and just haven’t had the best luck,” she said. “I just started losing a little bit of hope, like real true love and just that sweet juvenile puppy love wasn’t there. I just wanted to write a song reigniting that hope and just being, ‘Wake me up when I’m in love. Wake me up, and it’s real.’”
Darci Lynne Started Losing Hope In Boys
Lynne’s career shift was sparked during the pandemic. Her shows were canceled, and she turned her attention to songwriting as a therapeutic experience.
“Singing was my first hobby, my first love,” she said. “Then, of course, the ventriloquism came around and I went on that journey, which just has changed my life completely. But I always wanted to try writing music. For me, it’s such a freeing way of expression, and it’s just been really fun. I want to share that part of myself with the people that have followed me up until now.”
However, she’s not examining it too closely. She joked that the type of music she’s making is “the question of the hour.”
“I am honestly every other 19-year-old on this earth just trying to figure out what they’re going to do for the rest of their lives and who they are,” she said. “I’ve always been an old soul, super soulful. I would say it’s probably kind of in the pop-soul area. I truly want to be a light in the music industry.”
This weekend, Lynne will also (albeit briefly) light up the silver screen. She appears alongside David Henrie during the lifeguard scene in the biopic Reagan.
Lynne explained that Ronald Reagan was a lifeguard at the Illinois River in the 1930s. Young girls pretended to drown because they thought he was so cute and wanted him to save them.
Lynne had to pretend to drown so Henrie could save her.
“So that’s me in the movie,” she said. “Don’t blink when you watch it, but it’s a fun little scene, and it was just cool to be a part of an incredible film. I had a good gig. All I had to do was scream and swoon.”
Reagan is out now.
(Photo by Danielle Del Valle/Getty Images for REAGAN Movie)
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