If Lilly Winwood's music resists easy definition, it's because she grew up between worlds.

Raised between the English countryside and Nashville, Tennessee, she has often described herself as growing up in “mid-air”; caught between two cultures, two musical traditions, and two ways of telling stories. Long before she began writing songs, she sang soprano in school choirs across the Cotswolds, becoming Head Chorister at just eleven years old. Encouraged from an early age by her father, Steve Winwood, those years of singing harmony shaped the musical instincts that continue to define her work today: an ear for melody, an instinct for emotional phrasing, and the belief that songs should be lived in before they're written.

Today, Winwood writes with the eye of a novelist and the instincts of someone raised on timeless records. Her songs wander comfortably between folk, southern soul, Americana and classic rock without ever belonging entirely to one tradition. They're populated by motel rooms, diners, long highways, English gardens, East Nashville back porches and the complicated interior lives that unfold inside them. As Dana Miller of QRO Magazine noted, "Her abiding love of books is strikingly evident in all of her songs” - a quality that gives her writing an uncommon sense of character, place and emotional detail.

After moving permanently to Nashville at eighteen, she found her footing in the city's independent songwriting community, touring extensively throughout the United States and sharing stages with artists including Todd Snider, Michael McDonald and Emmylou Harris. Along the way, she recorded a new version of "Higher Love" with Steve Winwood for Hershey’s; a performance that Adweek called "a true anthem spot" before it found a second life in Netflix's The Umbrella Academy.

Her forthcoming album, Undiscovered Pleasure, produced by Dan Knobler (Lake Street Dive, Allison Russell), marks the most expansive chapter of her career to date. Soulful, cinematic and emotionally fearless, the record leans into openness rather than certainty, exploring what can happen when we stop trying to control our lives and instead meet them with curiosity. It's a collection that feels both timeless and startlingly personal; an artist embracing every place she's ever called home, while finally sounding unmistakably like herself.