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California's Ashlyn Rae Willson (aka Ashe) is an emotive performer who combines poetic singer/songwriter pop with electronic flourishes. She emerged in the 2010s singing on Ben Phipps' "Sleep Alone" and Shaun Frank's Juno-nominated "Let You Get Away" before releasing her 2018 debut EP, The Rabbit Hole. Ashe gained wider attention when her song "Moral of the Story" (off 2019's Moral of the Story: Chapter 1) was featured in Netflix's To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You. Riding the wave of attention, she released her debut album, 2021's Ashlyn, hitting 18 on Billboard's Top Alternative Albums chart. Her sophomore album, Rae, arrived in 2022 and featured a guest appearance by actress Diane Keaton. On the heels of a year-long hiatus, she returned in 2024 with Wilson, heralded by the single "Running Out of Time." A native of San Jose, Willson took piano lessons starting at age six and first began writing songs in her teens. After high school, she briefly attended community college before enrolling at Berklee in Boston, where she majored in Contemporary Writing and Production. After graduating, she relocated to Nashville, where she quickly found songwriting and production work. However, it was her solo work as Ashe that caught the attention of Swedish DJ Ben Phipps, who then invited her to collaborate on the single "Sleep Alone." The track went viral and helped her land similar collaborations with artists like Shaun Frank, Whethan, and Louis the Child. In 2017, Ashe released her official debut solo single, "Used to It," followed by The Rabbit Hole EP in 2018. She returned the next year with two more EPs, Moral of the Story: Chapter 1 and Moral of the Story: Chapter 2, both of which featured production by Finneas O'Connell. In February 2020, Ashe's song "Moral of the Story" landed at number five on the Billboard digital charts after it was featured in the hit Netflix series To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You. Her first album, the personal Ashlyn, was issued by Mom + Pop in May 2021. It reached number 18 on the Billboard Alternative Albums chart, cracked the Billboard 200, and, matching Moral of the Story: Chapter 1, peaked at number two on the Heatseekers chart. Throughout 2022, Ashe released a series of singles including the punchy "Angry Woman" and the ballad "Love Is Letting Go," which featured a guest appearance from Diane Keaton. Both tracks appeared on her sophomore Mom + Pop LP, Rae, which arrived that October and returned her to the Top Ten of Billboard's Heatseekers chart. While a tour was planned for 2023, Ashe canceled the dates, citing a need to recuperate both mentally and physically. Following an almost year-long hiatus, she returned in June 2024 with the single "Running Out of Time." It served as the first song released off her third full-length and first issued on her own independent label, Wilson.