Sony Music Nashville Launches New Pop Imprint, Free Flight Records
Darren Kiely, Free Flight Records
Sony Music Nashville has launched a new imprint for non-country music called Free Flight Records. Pop/folk singer-songwriter Darren Kiely has joined the imprint’s roster.
“Nashville has always been known as a song first community and as such attracts writers from all over the world to come to practice their craft. As we’ve seen that talent pool become a deep well, we decided to build a home to partner with and support those singer/songwriters that aren’t categorically ‘country.’ Darren Kiely is symbolic of this global new wave,” says Sony Music Nashville’s Chairman and CEO Randy Goodman of the news.
Kiely hails from a quaint town in Co. Cork, Ireland. With influences such as Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers and Noah Kahan, Kiely has mastered his own distinctive sound while drawing in fans worldwide.
He released his debut EP Lost last fall, in which he solo-wrote four of the seven tracks on the project and co-wrote the other three. Kiely has now reached No. 1 on the Irish Homegrown Chart with hit hit “Sunrise” from the project. Lost also features “Mom & Dad,” which debuted in the top 40 on the Irish Singles Chart and also landed him in the top 5 on the Irish Homegrown chart.
Kiely went out on the road last fall, stopping for sold-out headlining shows in Boston and New York before bringing his “The Road Home Tour” to Ireland in November. With stops in Cork, Dublin, Galway and Limerick, the Irish leg of the tour sold out the same day it went on sale. Now he is on “The Lost Tour,” where he’ll stop in major cities across North America including Dallas, Denver, Nashville, Seattle, Vancouver and others.
