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Savana Santos – Singer, Songwriter & Producer Who Nailed the Pandemic Vibe

Three years ago, March 12th 2020, is remembered by many as the day the “once-in-a-century” global pandemic became real. It was the day after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. NCAA cancelled March Madness. Major League hockey, soccer, baseball and golf hit pause on their seasons and/or pre-seasons. And Tom Hanks and his wife announced that they were diagnosed with the coronavirus.

It wouldn’t be until late June that year that a relatively unknown Nashville band called Avenue Beat quietly loaded F2020 to TikTok. They went to sleep and as the lead singer Savana Santos says, the song “popped off”, with 4.5 million views by the next morning.  The lyrics hit hard…and hit in a place that everyone could feel.

Yo, my cat died and a global pandemic took over my life And I put out some music that nobody liked So, I got really sad and bored at the same time And that's why I'm like Lowkey f**k 2020

About producing F2020 Savana explains that “vocals are everything, I just stack until I can’t stack no more”. Her “vocal wall-of-sound” would make Phil Spector envious. The New York Times would go on to call F2020 the “Song of The Year”, saying “It’s delivered with a droll, self-conscious shrug, airy harmonies and twitchy percussion.”

Avenue Beat would later release an album (The Debut Farewell Album), with some fantastic songs including Woman and This Is Goodbye.  If you are a sucker for “end of an era” songs like George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass and Green Day’s Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), then you’ll get the vibe on This is Goodbye.