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Who The Heck Is Fabrizio? The Peruvian Country Artist Going Viral with Raw Songwriting
By Daisy Innes
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It’s becoming increasingly common that a new name appears on social media and all of a sudden, they’re the “next big thing” in music. Sometimes, those names come and go, other times, they seem destined to stick around for the long haul. The next promising name making the rounds is the folk-infused singer-songwriter, Fabrizio.
In a remarkably short amount of time, Fabrizio has gained hundreds of thousands of followers across his social media accounts who have each been captivated by his intense, skillfully written and soulfully sung songs. Moving tracks like ‘No Blood Left To Spill’ and ‘Lady of the Moon’ have taken his streams into the millions before the release of a full length collection. With a string of videos each featuring Fabrizio locking the camera with an intense stare, it left us wondering, who exactly is Fabrizio?
Born in Peru and now based in Alabama, the singer-songwriter known as Fabrizio writes with a pen dipped in universal ink - taking intensely raw themes of addiction, mental health, loneliness and discomfort in one's place in the world, his songs reach into the parts that many of us rarely want to acknowledge.
With a voice that carries the weight and emotional depth of generations, Fabrizio sits in a unique position in the current musical world - one that feels like his music was carved in stone before written on paper. His deep, baritone vocal style has seen him receive comparisons to country artists like Kade Hoffman and Colter Wall, but a significant difference in upbringing separates the newcomer from his musical contemporaries.
Growing up in Huánuco, Peru, it was his radio DJ father that instilled a passion for music into Fabrizio, despite living without running water and electricity for a number of years, the songwriter never envisioned a future in which he didn’t have a microphone firmly planted in the ground in front of him.
Uprooting and moving to Georgia at a mere 15 years old, Fabrizio learnt how to fight for survival out of sheer necessity; bussing tables at a Mexican restaurant, learning to speak English from YouTube videos and working endlessly to earn a scholarship at Georgia State University. Sometimes though, not even determination can cut through regulation and an unsuccessful wait for a Green Card put an unwanted stop to his studies.
It was towards the end of 2023 that Fabrizio returned to the solace of music, purchasing a guitar and penning songs that saw him hit the ground running towards a signing with Santa Anna. The ending chapter to this part of Fabrizio’s story comes with his debut EP Recovery, a collection chronicling his journey towards sobriety.
Singing that “I was young, fragile, when the liquor took hold / Came as a friend but it left as a foe”, Fabrizio’s music pulls on the experiences he’s lived, a shocking rawness quickly shaping his writing style. “I don’t follow any blueprint,” he states. “I will say phrases that only I would say, even if they’re too direct or unpolished. Sometimes, a song doesn’t need to be so polished.”
Starting when he made the move to America, Fabrizio turned to drinking to silence the deafening nature of loneliness. Now sober, he’s taken the opportunity to reflect on the years in which he was caught up in addiction: “Addiction has been a very big part of my life. Why not write about it?’ Maybe, the music will help anybody who’s struggling to find closure.”
Fabrizio’s upcoming EP Recovery contains no escapism of glamorisation or romanticisation, instead it is engulfed in a darkness of realism, one that he hopes people may recognise themselves in and use as a crutch of support through their own struggles.
The opener ‘Before The Soul Goes To Waste’ - which has already racked over two million Spotify streams - transitions from a story of self-destruction and addiction-fuelled tragedy, into a reminder of the permanence of choice. A song of raw recovery that feels comparable to the guiding honesty of Johnny Cash. ‘Rehab’ takes a step into character-driven narrative writing, a quivering yet solid voice warning against the realities of alcoholism, one that culminates in the character taking his own life.
“I’d love for you to walk away feeling like you’re not alone,” he concludes. “The whole purpose of getting so personal in the music was to encourage people to keep pushing forward.”
As a newcomer to the scene, an EP so deeply rooted in personal experience is a brave choice for a debut collection, but Fabrizio gave as much of an explanation for it as any: “When you hear the EP, you’re getting to know me.” While some ‘next big thing’s disappear as quickly as they emerge, we have a feeling Fabrizio is here to stay.
